Dr. Jai Thilak

Dr. Jai Thilak Kailathuvalapil is a distinguished professor in orthopaedics with more than 30 years of clinical expertise. Joining Amrita Hospital in 2000, Dr. Jai Thilak played a crucial role in the development of the Joint replacement and Arthroscopic surgery units, successfully executing over 10,000 major surgical procedures. Dr. Jai Thilak has been doing pioneering work in robotic surgery and made Amrita the first center in India to start robotic joint replacements in 2017. He has successfully completed more than 1000 MAKO robotic arm-assisted joint replacement surgeries. Dr. Jai Thilak has been successfully running the adult reconstruction fellowship training programme, which is ISAKOS-approved. He has more than 40 national and international publications to his credit. 

• Malayalam 
• English 

• Best Paper Award for the presentation on “A Prospective Study of Popliteal Cyst decompression by Arthroscopic removal of the capsular valve mechanism” during the 9th Annual Conference of the Indian Arthroscopic Society in Chennai on September 24th to 27th Sept 2010. 
• Best Paper Award from the Ranawat Orthopaedic Foundation for the presentation of “Analysis of the Valgus Angle following Navigation TKR” at Cochin on 14th Jan 2011. 
• Chancellor's publication award in the Amrita Innovation & Research Awards 2021.