Dr. Rakesh Dhake
MBBS, MS (Ortho)
Orthopedic Department
Dr. Rakesh Dhake graduated with M.B.B.S degree from the prestigious seth G.S.Medical College and K.E.M Hospital, Mumbai, following which he completed speciality training M.S in orthopaedics from the busiest tertiary trauma centre Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College & General Hospital (LTMMC & LTMGH, Sion hospital) Mumbai. During the last year of his specialty training (2016), and an another year after completion of his postgraduate training, he was working as registrar and senior registrar DR. RAKESH DHAKE MBBS, MS (Ortho) (2017) respectively in a spine unit when he developed immense interest in the field, having been exposed to a vast majority of spine cases.Pursuing his interest in the field, Dr. Dhake went to Hungary at Budapest’s National Centre for Spinal Disorders for a short term fellowship followed by another in Lisbon, Portugal at CHLC Spine Centre (2017-2018)
He was selected for Nottingham Advanced Spinal Surgery Fellowship (2019-2020) at Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery (CSSS), Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. CSSS cooperates with several international spine centres and is the designated regional speciality AOSpine Center for Spinal Surgery. He was soon promoted to a senior position under the mentorship of Mr. Michael Grevitt and was exposed to wide variety of paediatric spinal deformity. He was awarded Senior Clinical Fellowship by Royal college of Surgeons of England (RCS) at RCSEng Diplomates’ Ceremony in London.
This fellowship is accredited by RCS and British Orthopaedic association (BOA). Having completed this fellowship, he was appointed as a Consultant Spine surgeon at the Queen’s Medical Centre (2020-2021) and Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (2021-2022). He has independently performed hundreds of spinal surgeries.