History

The idea of formation of KOA was started by Dr. H.K.SrinivasMurthy in summer of 1972 with Dr. T.D.Ram and Dr. J.S.Hegde as conveners. A series of meetings of handful of orthopaedic surgeons was called at Bangalore. Dr. M.Y.Rai was elected as the first President of the Association and Dr. J.S.Hegde as the Secretary. The first annual conference was held in the year 1974 at Bangalore. Dr. M.Y.Rai and Dr. J.S.Hegde continued as President and Secretary. In the year 1976 Dr. V.Chako of Manipal hosted the second annual conference at Manipal on a grand scale. In the year 1978 under the leadership of Dr. A.M.Kulkarni, rejuvenation of the Association was brought about by a handful of orthopaedic surgeons at Hubli. With Dr. A.M. Kulkarni as President, Dr. B.S. KanakaReddy as Vice-President, Dr. J.S. Hedge continued as Secretary of the Association. Dr. V.D. Sapare was Organising Secrertary of the Conference. A few changes in the bylaws were made. KOA was registered in the year 1982-83 under Dr. H.K. SrinivasMurthy's regime. The following is the list of Past Presidents and secretaries of KOA.

 

YEAR
 PAST PRESIDENT
PAST SECRETARIES

1972-78   
1978-79
1979-80
1980-81
1981-82
1982-83
1983-84
1984-85
1985-86
1986-87
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012               

Dr. Rai M Y
Dr. Kulkarni A M
Dr. Hanumanthaiah
Dr. Sharma R K
Dr. Chacko V
Dr. Srinivasmurthy H K
Dr. Shyamsunder Shetty
Dr. Shantaram Shetty
Dr. Shah R R
Dr. Mariappa T V
Dr. Surendra K T
Dr. Hegde J S
Dr. Sudhakar Shetty
Dr. Nagaraj T R
Dr. Doddamani S D
Dr. Putti B B
Dr. Nagaraja G
Dr. Sripathi Rao
Dr. Kalamdani
Dr. Vilas Babu
Dr. Sundaresh
Dr. Rajkumar
Dr. Bhaskaranand Kumar
Dr. Satyendra Rao
Dr. Pattanshetti
Dr. Mahabal Rai
Dr. Tahsildar
Dr. Rajiv Naik
Dr. Dilip Deshpande
Dr. Sagar B G
Dr. Naresh Shetty
Dr. Umanand Mallya
Dr. Rajgopalan N
Dr. G.C. Basvaraj
Dr. V.G. Murakibhavi

Bangalore
Hubli      
Mysore                        
Belgaum                       
Manipal                        
Bangalore                    
Davangere                    
Mangalore                    
Gulbarga                       
Bangalore                     
Bangalore                    
Mysore                        
Bangalore                    
Bangalore                     
Bellary                         
Belgaum                       
Davangere                     
Manipal                         
Hubli                             
Gulbarga                      
Bangalore                     
Bangalore                      
Manipal                         
Davangere                     
Bijapur                         
Mangalore                      
Shimoga                        
Bangalore                       
Dharwad                         
Mysore                          .  Bangalore                     
Mangalore                    
Bangalore                         Davangere                      
Belgaum                    

Dr. J S Hegde
Dr. J S Hegde
Dr. Mahadev
Dr. B B Putti
Dr. Bhskaranada Kumar
Dr. T R Nagaraj
Dr. G Nagaraj
Dr. Suhakar Shetty
Dr. Vilas Babu
Dr. N Krishnappa
Dr. V S Iyer
Dr Ravishankar R.
Dr. R M Shenoy
Dr. N Ramesh
Dr. Ramlingayya
Dr. R B Uppin
Dr. D S Satyendra Rao
Dr. Vasudev Aithal
Dr. Suresh Korlhalli
Dr. Vikas Shah
Dr Naresh Shetty
Dr. Shridhar Murthy
Dr. Sharath K. Rao
Dr. G C Basavaraj
Dr. Anil Patil
Dr. Prem Kotian
Dr. Ravishankar R.
Dr. Ravishankar R.
Dr. Ravishankar R.
Dr. Ravishankar R.
Dr. Ravishankar R.
Dr. Ravishankar R.
Dr. Vasudev Kamath
Dr. Vasudev Kamath
Dr. Vasudev Kamath