Chitranjan Singh Ranawat

Chitranjan Singh Ranawat is an eminent orthopaedic surgeon .He is based at New York and is of Indian origin. He had operated on Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s knee.

He was conferred with Padma Bhushan.A world renowned, he is the Director of the Orthopeadic Surgery and Centre for Total Joint Replacement in New York.

Dr Ranawat reportedly uses a cemented total knee replacement which “has proven to be the Kewlest Kind”. In a cemented total knee the components are fixed with a bone cement called methy-methacrylate.

Dr Ranawat uses the PFC Modular Kneww system he has developed after years of research with thousands of cases.

Dr Ranawat was born in Mewar. He studied in India and in the mid-sixties migrated to USA — and turned out to be among the world’s best orthopaedic surgeon.

He is also a philanthropist by nature and runs a public trust "Ranawat Foundation Trust", meant to render services for humanity. The trust has recently provided aid to a local hospital in Pune. Doctors, who have worked with him described the noted surgeon as one of the best in the world with a healing touch.