Dr. Vikram I Shah is an Indian orthopaedic surgeon, based in Ahmedabad. After completion of his MBBS and MS Orthopaedics in Ahmedabad, he worked and trained at Ormskirk and Wrightington Hospital, UK, for two and a half years, and later worked in the USA. On his return to India, he began surgical practice by establishing Shalby Hospital and Research Centre in Ahmedabad in 1994. Also works as a Principal Investigator for various Clinical Research Trials for last 5 years.

Shah has performed more than 50,000 joint replacement surgeries till date. Today, he and his team do more than 600 primary joint replacements a month. This is the highest number of joint replacement surgeries performed by a single Hospital team anywhere in the world.

Shah invented the ‘OS Needle’ (Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Needle) which can pass through both bone and soft tissue easily so that an orthopaedic surgeon can finish repairing bone and soft tissues quickly. Before the invention of the OS Needle, surgeons had to use complicated soft tissue procedures in which the failure rate was high.

Shah also invented Zero technique, a revolution in surgical history, thereby reducing knee replacement surgery time from one and a half hour in 1994 to 10 minutes in 2012. With this technique patient experiences less pain, zero blood loss and starts walking within 3 hours of Surgery.

He has been awarded Dr.B.C.Roy International Award for joint replacement surgery in 2003, Hercules Award for Innovation by Gujarat Innovation Society in April 2014 for inventing ‘0’ Technique and OS needle.