Dr. Vinod V. Rajan is Head of Spine Surgery and Sr. Consultant, Bone and Joint Care, at Meitra Hospital. He completed his MBBS from Thrissur Medical College in 2000. He completed his post graduation MS Ortho and D. Ortho from Government Medical College, Calicut in 2004 and DNB in Orthopaedics in 2005. Later he completed his Fellowship in Spine Surgery from Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore in 2009. He underwent AO Spine Fellowship from Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham in 2014. He has a visiting fellowship in Spine Surgery from Cleveland Hospital, Florida in 2015. He is the first qualified spine surgeon in North Kerala who performed more than 1000 spine surgeries ranging from base of skull to tail bone of various pathologies. His interests are in the field of deformity correction of the spine and complex spine surgeries.