Doctor's Profile
Dr Lingaraj Krishna
Orthopaedic Surgery
Clinic
Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Partners
Address
Mount Alvernia Hospital
820 Thomson Road
Medical Centre A #06-08
Singapore 574623
Clinic Hours
8.30am to 5.30pm (Mon – Fri)
Background
Dr Lingaraj Krishna is an orthopaedic surgeon, who firmly believes in providing holistic, comprehensive, evidence-based care for all his patients. He also believes that working in a team, together with the patient and the rehabilitation therapist, is the best way to achieve optimal outcomes.
He has practised medicine for more than 20 years and manages a wide range of orthopaedic conditions. His subspecialty interests lie in the field of knee surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine, where he is recognised as a thought-leader nationally and internationally.
He is currently Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Partners – a private group practice located at Gleneagles Hospital. He also serves as Visiting Consultant in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University Hospital (NUH). He was previously Head of the Division of Sports Medicine and Surgery at NUH from 2014 to 2020. He was also the founding Director of the NUH Sports Centre – a multidisciplinary, research-oriented, tertiary-level centre for sports medicine and surgery – from 2016 to 2020.
Dr Lingaraj served on the Executive Board of Sport Singapore, the national governing body for sport in Singapore, for 4 years from 2016 to 2020. He currently serves on the Civil Aviation Medical Board, which is a division of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. He also serves in the Membership Committee of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has been involved in more than 70 conference presentations. He has also been widely featured in the media.