The Illustrative Book of Cartilage Repair (PDF)

Deepak Goyal is an experienced cartilage, knee arthroscopy, and sports knee surgeon who graduated from Gujarat University in 1991 and did post-graduation from Sheth KM School of Postgraduate Medicine and Research in India in 1995. He is founder and the past President of the Indian Cartilage Society and is largely credited for bringing the cartilage science to the Indian Sub-continent. Dr. Goyal was a Board Member of the International Cartilage Research Society (ICRS) from 2009 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2017, and has also chaired a ICRS sub-committee. He also served as a member of the Cartilage Committee of ESSKA from 2010 through 2014. He was selected for an ESSKA Arthroscopy Scholarship in 2005 and for an ESSKA Arthroplasty Fellowship in 2009 and APKASS-AOSSM Fellowship in 2014. In 2005 he received the Dr K P Shrivastava National Gold Medal from the Indian Orthopaedic Association for his study on cartilage regeneration and also received best paper award from Indian Arthroscopy Society in 2008. Dr Goyal is also a visiting professor to Department of Orthopedics, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan. Dr. Goyal owns and practices at the Saumya Arthroscopy & Sports Knee Clinic in Ahmedabad, India. His interests lie especially in cartilage, patellofemoral joint, and sports knee injuries and he has published many research articles in leading journals as well as been invited as a faculty worldwide. Currently he represents the Indian Arthroscopy Society on the editorial board of the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine and is also serving as the President of Asian Cartilage Repair Society.