User:Vaikunthan

Dr Vaikunthan Rajaratnam graduated from the University of Malaya in 1980 where he did his initial orthopaedic surgery training and later continued his advanced plastic, hand and microsurgery training in the UK and US. He further obtained accreditation in business administration, medical education and instructional design and technology and continues in his lifelong learning journey as a PhD candidate in the field of education. He maintained his academic affiliations with the University as honorary consultant and progressed to develop hand surgery and public and physician education on health and medicine in Malaysia through his leadership involvement in numerous professional bodies like the Malaysian Orthopaedic Association, Malaysian Society for the Surgery of the Hand, Malaysian Osteoporosis Society and the Malaysian Healthy Ageing Association.

In 2001 Dr Vaikunthan Rajaratnam migrated to the UK working in the National Health Service as a senior Consultant Hand Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in peripheral nerve and brachial plexus surgery. He contributed extensively to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham providing surgical management to victims of military operational deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011 he relocated to Singapore to KTPH and has been actively involved in the training of hand and orthopaedic surgeons. He has initiated innovative ways of delivering hand surgery service and is actively involved in research and teaching locally and regionally. He has developed an open online educational program for Hand Surgery, Medical Education and MBA competencies for doctors. His passion for teaching and education has taken him around the world to deliver workshop and lectures on surgery, surgical training and faculty development programs incorporating instructional design and technology use in medical and health care education.