Dr. Ajit Kumar VarmaSenior Consultant, General Surgeon and Podiatrist, Department of Podiatrist Surgery, India
Dr. Ajit Kumar Varma completed his schooling from Central School, New Delhi in 1971. He passed his M.B.B.S from the University of New Delhi, in December 1980. He then joined the Indian Army Medical Corps in 1981. While serving in the Indian Army he completed his Master’s in General Surgery from the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, India in May 1990 where he obtained immense experience in trauma surgery and various emergency surgeries.
In August 1997 he resigned from the Armed Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel. He then worked for major hospitals in Kerala, in the Departments of General Surgery and Gasterosurgery, carrying out all types of elective and emergency surgeries, including surgeries for gastro-intestinal malignancies and laparoscopic gastro-intestinal surgeries. In May 2004, he joined the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, in Kochi, Kerala, a 1,400 bed, tertiary referral hospital, as the Chief of the Diabetic Lower Limb and Podiatric Surgery Unit.
Dr. Varma has been the organizing secretary of the International Amrita Endocrinology and Diabetic Foot Conference, held once in two years, in the institute campus. On 1 June, 2015, he joined the Aster Medcity Hospital, a quaternary care institute in Kochi, Kerala as a Senior Consultant of the Department of Podiatric Surgery. This is the largest facility of its kind in India and concentrates mainly on limb salvage. This is the only center in India where foot and ankle reconstructive surgeries are being performed routinely in large numbers, in high-risk diabetic patients.
In January 2010, he was conferred with the prestigious Dr. S.C.Misra Medical Oration Award. Dr. Varma is the principal investigator in a number of major research programs. Most notable among these is the new invention of entire foot bone replacement prosthesis, which has been provisionally patented. By comprehensive management, the center has been able to maintain a limb salvage rate of 91.5 percent, in diabetic foot and lower-limb problems, comparable to the best centers in the world. He has over 200 research papers published in national and international journals and has hands on experience working in eminent diabetic foot centers in the United Kingdom and the United States.
