Dr S Rajasekaran takes over as president of International Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery

Coimbatore: A city Orthopaedic surgeon has taken over as President of International Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (SICOT).

Chairman, Department of Orthopaedics,Trauma and Spine Surgery, Ganga Hospital here, Dr S Rajasekaran, took over as president at the Annual meeting of SICOT held in Rome on September 10, an hospital release said.

The term of International President is for two years from 2016-2018 and he is the second Indian to become the president of this association in the last 85 years.

Headquartered at Brussels, SICOT is the largest Society of orthopaedics and Trauma surgery around the world, with more than 32,000 members and membership affiliation of National Associations of 127 countries, the release said.