Bones, joints and spine
Dr. Sunil G Kini
HOD & Consultant - Orthopaedic & Robotic Joint Replacement Surgery
- Practises at
- Manipal Hospitals, Old Airport Road, Bengaluru
- Experience, per the profile
- More than 22 years overall, including over 15 years as a specialist
- Role
- Heads the department
About Dr. Sunil G Kini
Dr. Sunil G Kini is an orthopaedic surgeon and robotic joint replacement specialist currently serving as HOD & Consultant – Orthopaedic & Robotic Joint Replacement Surgery at Manipal Hospital Old Airport Road, Bengaluru. Dr. Sunil G Kini completed his MBBS from B.M. Patil Medical College, followed by an MS in Orthopaedics from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute. He subsequently earned his DNB from the National Board of Examinations and dual MRCS qualifications from the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He further advanced his expertise with an M.Ch, MNAMS, and a Diploma from SICOT (Belgium). To refine his skills in joint replacement and adult reconstruction, he completed international fellowships in London, Sydney, Germany and Singapore. At Manipal Hospital, Dr. Sunil G Kini specialises in robotic and conventional hip and knee replacement, revision joint replacement surgery, shoulder and elbow replacement, hip and knee arthroscopy, ligament reconstruction, cartilage restoration procedures, sports injury management, and complex trauma surgery. He serves as a mentor and core faculty member for training orthopaedic surgeons in arthroscopy and joint replacement techniques, and is a reviewer for journals including the Bone and Joint Journal and the International Orthopaedics Journal.
Field of expertise
- Hip and Knee Primary and Revision Joint Replacement
- Shoulder & Elbow Replacement surgery
- Arthroscopy surgery of Knee & Hip (Ligament reconstruction, ACL/PCL/MCL, PLC, MPFL)
- Meniscal surgeries
- Cartilage repair including stem cell, OATS, ACI therapy
- Sports and Adult Reconstruction
- Complex trauma surgeries
Fellowships and memberships
- Senior Fellow (Hip and Knee), London
- Fellow (Hip and Knee), Sydney, Australia
- Fellow (Hip and Knee), Germany
- Fellow (Adult Reconstruction), Singapore
Awards and achievements
- LESTER-LOWE Young Surgeon SICOT Award 2010, presented at the Annual Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden
- SICOT German Travelling Fellowship (Arthroplasty / Sports Medicine), 2012
- IOA-Thailand Ambassadorship, 2014
- One of the few surgeons to perform hip arthroscopy in Karnataka
- Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Orthopaedics
- Reviewer for the Bone and Joint Journal and the International Orthopaedics Journal
Qualifications
- MBBS
- M.S
- DNB
- MRCS (Glasgow & Edinburgh)
- M.Ch
- MNAMS
- Dip. SICOT (Belgium)
Languages spoken
- English
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Konkani
- Bengali
- Telugu
- Tamil
This profile lists Bengali, so a Bangladeshi patient can expect to be understood without an interpreter in the room.
Published work
- 30 publications in international indexed journals, per the profile
- More than 50 papers and posters presented at international conferences, per the profile
The sheet lists the individual citations; we publish the figure it states rather than an edited selection of them.
What the profile does not settle. No surgical volume is published here, because the profile contradicts itself. Its overview claims "over 12,000 orthopaedic surgeries, including more than 5,000 joint replacement procedures and 3,000 arthroscopic (keyhole) surgeries"; its achievements list, on the same document, says "more than 2000 Joint Replacement surgeries" and "more than 1500 Arthroscopy (Keyhole) surgeries". That is a gap of about two and a half times, and volume is exactly the figure a family weighs when choosing a surgeon. Manipal owes us the real number in writing.
Source: Consultant profile sheets supplied to us by Manipal Hospitals, read on 5 August 2026.
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