Dr. Vijay C. Bose, MS ( Orth); DNB ( Orth);

M.Med.Sci (Trauma) Birmingham; MCh (Orth) Liverpool; FRCS (Orth) U.K

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Dr. Vijay C. Bose graduated from Madras Medical College in 1990, having secured the Lt. Col. Thayumunusamy gold medal in orthopaedics from the college during the final year. After completion of postgraduate studies (M.S Orthopaedics) from the university of Mangalore and D.NB (Orth) from the national board of examination, he gained practical experience in orthopaedics by working in various private institutions in India. He worked as Registrar in Apollo Hospital, Chennai and in Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore. In 1995, he commenced subspecialty training in hip surgery at Birmingham U.K where he worked closely with Dr. Derek McMinn and Dr.Ronan Treacy the inventors of the Metal on metal hip resurfacing prosthesis for young people with hip arthritis. During his training in Birmingham he completed the M.Med.Sci trauma course from the University of Birmingham.


Later he did advanced training at Liverpool in shoulder surgery with Prof. Simon Frostick and Dr.Peter Brownson. During his stay there, he secured the MCh (Orth) qualification from the university of Liverpool and the FRCS (Orth) qualification from the Joint University Examination board of the United Kingdom. He successfully brought the new orthopaedic innovation of hip resurfacing surgery to south Asia for the first time in may 2000. He has also brought expertise in the nascent field of arthroscopic shoulder surgery to south India.


Dr. Vijay C. Bose presently works as consultant hip and shoulder surgeon at Apollo Specialty Hospital in Chennai and provides a referral-based service for complex joint problems. He has delivered numerous guest lectures and performed live surgical demonstrations in hip and shoulder surgery all over India. He is part of the Asia Pacific hip resurfacing lead group and travels frequently to the Asia pacific countries to help local surgeons in hip resurfacing.


Dr. Bose conducted the first Asia-pacific conference on Birmingham Metal on metal hip resurfacing in March 2003 at Apollo Specialty Hospital. In addition, he frequently conducts many hip and shoulder CME programmes at Chennai. Recently he has introduced the bone conserving shoulder resurfacing procedure again for the first time in India at Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai.

Happy Dr. Bose Patients

DAST International selects another candidate

DAST International has selected it's second candidate to receive financial assistance with hip resurfacing surgery.  Colleen Hennessy is 49 years old and lives in Denver, Colorado, she recently returned from Honduras as a Peace Corps volunteer and has no health insurance.  She will be having he surgery with Dr. De Smet in Belgium on April 15, 2008.

Dr. De Smet and his staff from the ANCA-Clinic of the AMC-Gent are donating their services to perform one hip resurfacing surgery per year. Colleen will stay free at Hugo's Rehab Center "Villo Cento Passi"  http://www.villacentopassi.com/fla/index.html  while in Belgium. Smith & Nephew is also donating one (BHR) Birmingham Hip Resurfacing device per year.  The entire cost to the patient which will cover hospital stay etc. is only 3000 euros plus cost of airfare.  I want to thank Dr. DeSmet and Hugo for the incredible generosity in offering this to Colleen as our selected patient this year. 

A little about Colleen in her own words below. "My name is Colleen Hennessy.  I am 49 years old and a recently returned Peace Corps volunteer.  I was in Honduras for the last 27 months, living in a remote village in the cloud forest on a mountaintop.  In a place that rains nine months a year, the local children were ecstatic to work with me in establishing the town's first library and computer center.   

My hip has bothered me for some time now, but I have endured the pain because I have no health insurance and kept hoping that it would get better. I cannot walk any distance without pain in my lower back and hip.  I have very limited movement and little flexibility. 

Recently, I connected with the yahoo surface hippy group and what a wonderful resource!  It was there that I found out about DAST International. How grateful I am that organizations such as this exist!  I also appreciate all the stories and other information that people have posted on the "hippy" site and look forward to sharing my own!"  

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Why "DAST"?

According to a dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi and English, "dast" is the, "ability, power, means; aid, assistance; facility; dexterity, skill; acquisition, attainment."

It means: "To come to hand, to arrive; to be reached; to be obtained; to have in one's power, to be able."

It also means, "'Having healing in his hand,' an epithet of a physician who is successful in restoring his patients to health:--dast-talab, s.m. Begging; want:--dast-e-gaib, s.m. lit. 'The hidden hand'; a charm or incantation by means of which a hidden hand supplies one's healing.

Dast is ONE miraculous word that embodies hip resurfacing surgery, the return of the patient to his/her abilities through the skill of the surgeon, one's need for help, and the "healing hand" of the surgeon who performs the procedure! For us, it means "help ."