Dr. Philip Philip Puthumana
Dr. Philip Philip Puthumana

Dr. Philip Philip Puthumana

Senior Consultant - Plastic Surgery

Plastic and Micro Vascular Surgery

Dr. Philip Philip Puthumana is an eminent Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon of Kerala, practising for the last 20 years as a Plastic surgeon. Plastic Surgery being a broad speciality, Dr. Philip’s core areas of interest are in complex reconstructive Micro vascular plastic surgery and craniofacial corrections for trauma related deformities. Having being worked at many meritorious institutions in Kerala, Dr. Philip is now the HOD & Senior Consultant at Department of Plastic & Micro vascular Surgery, Caritas Hospital.

Professional Qualification

MBBS, MS, MCh (Plastic Surgery)

Achievements and expertise

Worked as Senior House Surgeon in orthopaedics in 1988-89 Worked in Indian Railways Former Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly. He had set up and managed a Burn Centre at Little Flower Hospital In 1996, he performed the first replantation of a severed Penis in India, for a labourer Recently he has performed the first of its kind in the world procedure to reconstruct a leg following Osteoradionecrosis of tibia consisting of bypass of the leg artery, transplantation of the bone and skin flap from other parts of the body with microvascular surgery as a three in one procedure with a combined operating time of 26 hours He was at the forefront of adopting innovative surgical techniques in the fast-changing plastic surgery scenarios. This was further enhanced by his visit to the Chang Gung University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan in 1999 as an international observer in Craniofacial and microvascular surgery. Chang Gung University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, the largest

Languages

He is proficient in Malayalam English, and Hindi.

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