Dr. Akash Sabharwal

Dr Sabharwal is the 4th generation doctor in his family of 140 doctors. His special interest is in Shoulder Surgery and Sports Injuries of the shoulder, elbow, knee, ankle.
He returned to Delhi after completing years of fellowship training in Upper Limb Surgery and Arthroscopic (Key Hole) Surgery for Sports Injuries from Adelaide, Australia. He worked at the hospitals associated with the Southern Adelaide Health Network, one of which being the FMC which is the largest tertiary care center in South Australia. He has undergone special training in Shoulder and Elbow Disorders at the Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.

He has trained under prominent figures like Prof. Krishnan, Prof. Greg Bain and Dr. Meng Ling known worldwide for their work in Upper Limb Pathologies.
Eminent Sports Injury surgeons like Dr. Shannon Sim, Dr. Mario Penta, Dr. Matthew Liptak were his mentors during his training in Australia.

His focus in Australia was on the management of complex knee and shoulder injuries in both professional and amateur athletes.

The joint replacement fellowship at RGH, Australia enabled Dr. Sabharwal to fine tune his skills in Shoulder and Elbow Joint replacement along with Total Knee Replacement under guidance of Dr. Graham Mercer, Dr. Chris Wilson and Dr. J Cabot.

During his time spent in Australia, he gained a special skill of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and is one of the first orthopedic surgeons in Delhi to utilize the benefits of in-office ultrasound for the prompt diagnosis and treatment of many shoulder and other joint complaints. Dr Sabharwal has also completed an advanced course in MSK Ultrasound. To maintain clinical skills and standards, he has attended musculo-skeletal ultrasound conferences and workshops overseas.

He graduated from Pune and then completed his internship at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi from where he pursued into post graduate Orthopaedic training, obtaining his Masters in Orthopedic Surgery from Rajiv Gandhi University in 2009. He then worked in the Government Sector for 3 years at the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College & Lok Nayak Hospital after which he worked for a short duration at the Artemis Health Institute, Gurgaon before leaving for Australia.

With a principal interest in Upper Limb pathology & Sports Injury Management by Arthroscopy, Dr. Sabharwal’s latest and modern overseas training also includes Upper Limb (Shoulder, Elbow), Lower Limb (Knee, Hip) Joint Replacement and complex trauma surgery.

He has an experience of performing hundreds of arthroscopies and replacements for various joint problems.

He has written a book chapter on elbow arthroscopy which is a skill mastered in India only by a few and Dr Sabharwal being one of them. His research in Adelaide also included pre and post operative shoulder replacement assessment to improve outcomes of surgery.

He has multiple scientific papers to his credit that have been published in well known national and international indexed journals. He has also done presentations of his work at national and international forums.

On his return to India, he is consulting in New Delhi, to provide super specialty health benefits with the same level of advanced expertise and care as in Australia.

Dr. Sabharwal has made various presentations at national and international forums:

•  “All bony avulsions in the anterior compartment of knee are not cruciate!” at IASCON, New Delhi
•  “Ochronotic arthropathy in a 65yr old lady managed with THA” at DOACON , New Delhi
• “Femoral nerve block for application of spica in paediatric femoral shaft fracture” at IOACON , New Delhi
•  “Syrinx formation and monoplegia in a patient with low lying cord secondary to spinal anaesthesia” at IOACON, New Delhi
•  “All bony avulsions in the anterior compartment of knee are not cruciate!” at DOA, New Delhi
•  “A tale of disappearing medial end of clavicle: Chondromyxoid fibroma of clavicle” at DOA, New Delhi
• “Lessons learned from an apparently benign pre-patellar mass: Spindle Cell Sarcoma” at DOA, New Delhi
• “A tale of disappearing medial end of clavicle: Chondromyxoid fibroma of clavicle” at SICOT, Dubai
• “Femoral nerve block for application of spica in paediatric femoral shaft fracture” at SICOT, Dubai
•  “Meniscal Repair – A Review” at Alice Springs Hospital, Australia
•  “Fingertip Injuries Management” at ASH Meeting, Australia
• “Total Elbow Arthroplasty -- Technique” at ASH Meeting, Australia
• “Shoulder—A revision of the Anatomy” at RGH Meeting, Australia
• “Deformity Correction in TKR” at FMC Meeting, Australia
• “High Tibial Osteotomy” at SALHN Meeting, Australia
• "Shoulder Case Discussions" at ISIC ShoulderCon, New Delhi
• "Shoulder Pain: Are you a victim?” at ITO, New Delhi
• “Shoulder Pain: The Modern Day Scenario”, New Delhi
• “Clinical Case Discussion on Shoulder” ISIC Shoulder Course
• “Getting a Good Shoulder X-ray” MSK DOA Conf, New Delhi
• On Panel for “Case Discussions” at MSK DOA Conf, New Delhi
• Course Instructor MAMC ISKSAA Cadaveric Arthroscopy Course
• “ClinicoRadiological Evaluation of Shoulder” ISKSAA, New Delhi
• “Shoulder Replacement For Fractures”  ISKSAA, New Delhi
• “Biceps Evaluation” ISKSAA, New Delhi
• “Controversies in Shoulder” DOACON, New Delhi
• “Large Grade IV Neglected TA rupture Reconstruction”, New Delhi
• “Shoulder Arthroscopy Portals” SWAM, New Delhi
• “New technique in wrist arthroscopy”, New Delhi
• “Big Fat Indian Shoulder” , New Delhi
• “Biceps Lesions” Panel discussion, Shoulder&Elbow Update
• “Elbow Arthroscopy Basics”, Shoulder&Elbow Update, New Delhi
• “Shoulder Fractures” Midcon DOA, New Delhi
• “Reading a shoulder MRI” MSK CME, LHMC, New Delhi
• “How to do a successful Hemiarthroplasty” ISIC Shoulder Course
• “Floating Shoulder” MIDCON  DOA, New Delhi
• “Shoulder Approaches” ISKSAA, New Delhi
• “Scapula Fractures” DOA, New Delhi

To keep his knowledge up to date Dr. Sabharwal regularly attends National and International Courses & Conferences:

​DOA quarterly, New Delhi

ISKSAA, New Delhi
Midcon DOA, New Delhi
AIIMS Cadaveric Shoulder Course
ISIC Shoulder Course, New Delhi
Midcon DOA, New Delhi
SWAM MAMC Cadeveric Shoulder Course, New Delhi
Shoulder&Elbow Update, New Delhi

MAMC ISKSAA Cadaveric Arthroscopy Course, New Delhi

MSK Delhi Orthopaedic Association Conference
ShoulderCon ISIC, New Delhi

MIDCON, SDOS, New Delhi
74th Annual AOA Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
Royal Northshore Shoulder Cadaveric Workshop, Sydney
COE: FMC, SA
Annual COE: Arthroscopy, Adelaide
COE: WCC, SA
COE: Sportsmed SA, South Australia

IOACON, New Delhi
SICOT, Dubai
International symposium on knee and shoulder arthroscopic surgery, New Delhi
MAMC Arthroscopy and sports injury update and cadaveric workshop
CME on Complications in Adult Lower Limb Trauma
DOACON
Annual Conference of Indian Arthroscopy Society
Musculoskeletal Imaging CME & Workshop, New Delhi
Current concepts in Arthroplasty, AIIMS
Shoulder Conclave, Solapur
AO Course, Hyderabad

Postgraduate training course by Dr.G.S. Kulkarni, Miraj
AIOCON, New Delhi