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                                                                                                      September 2016 
                                                    Gave a lecture on "Management of Post-traumatic brachial plexus injuries" at Goa on  29th September 2016 for the goa orthopaedic society.
                                                       September 2016 
                                                    Recognition of the contribution as a speaker of the Sun Yat-Sen Medicine forum in  Guangzhou,  China 
                                                    Sun Yat-Sen Medicine forum summit thesis on Modern Microsurgery - Has served in this forum as a Judge in 2016 Zhu-Kai best case report on Microsurgery.
                                                    
                                                       August 2016 
                                                    Organised the program "Brachial Plexus Defined 2016" at Deenanath Mangeshkar hospital (26-28 August, 2016) 
Live surgical workshop and clinical update. 
International faculty:  
Dr Alex Musetlara of Barcelona, Spain 
Professor Shufeng Wang of Beijing, China 
National Faculty: Dr Ashok Koul (Bengaluru), Professor Binu Thomas (Vellore), Dr R Srikant (Hyderabad), Dr Rajendra Nehete (Nashik), Dr Piyush Doshi (Vadodara), Dr Vitrag Shah (Surat). 
8 cases were operated- 3 post-traumatic brachial plexus injuries for nerve reconstruction (2 flail upper limbs by Professor Wang and one partial palsy by Dr Bhatia); one wrist fusion for a previously operated flail upper limb (Professor Binu Thomas); Dr Alex Musetlara operated one case of C567 birth palsy for primary nerve reconstruction and on 3 cases of deformities in sequelae of birth palsies. 
On 28th August, each of the faculty gave lectures on current practices in the management of post-traumatic global palsies and birth related brachial plexus injuries.  
60 delegates from India, Egypt, Jordan and Italy attended the workshop.
                                                     June 2016 
                                                    Faculty presentations at the course on cadaveric dissection and instructional course on brachial plexus and peripheral nerve surgery - A surgical jam session - organised by the University of Madrid, Spain on 16-18 June 2016.
                                                     June 2016 
                                                    Faculty presentation at the meeting to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the C7 transfer at Ningbo, The People's Republic of China on 5th June 2016.
                                                     June 2016 
                                                    Faculty presentation on "My experience with the use of the contralateral C7 transfer in the treatment of total brachial plexus injuries" at the 3rd meeting of the Asia Pacific Federation of Societies for Reconstructive Microsurgery 2-4 June 2016 at Beijing, The People's Republic of China.
                                                     May 2016 
                                                    Faculty presentations on C567 brachial plexus injuries and on Infraclavicular brachial plexus injuries at the International Advanced Orthopaedic Congress at Dubai (UAE)
     
                                                     February 2016 
                                                    Participated as Faculty at Club Narakas Meeting Barcelona, Spain 
                                                                  February 2016 
                                                    Participated as Faculty at  World Congress of Nerve Surgery  in New Delhi
                                                    
                                                     December 2014 
                                                    Participated as Faculty at the annual meeting of the Bombay Orthopaedic Society (WIROC) and presented on ulnar nerve compression at the elbow.
                                                     November 2014  
                                                    Participated as faculty at the annual meeting of the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand (ISSHCON 2014) at Mangalore. Given two invited presentations on brachial plexus surgery.
                                                 
                                                     October 2014 
                                                  Participated as a  faculty at the meeting of the Asia-Pacific Federation of Societies for the Surgery of the Hand (APFSSH) at Kuala Lumpur in October 2014. Given four invited presentations on brachial plexus injuries and obstetrical palsies.
                                                   April 2014 
                                                      Participated as faculty in a symposium on  “Reconstruction of Hand Function in complete post-traumatic brachial plexus  injuries” at the meeting of the European Federation of Societies for  Microsurgery held at Barcelona in Spain on 3-5 April 2014. The topic was  discussed with authorities from Italy (Dr Piero Raimondi), France (Dr Alain  Gilbert) and Luxembourg (Dr Michel Merle). 
                                                       
              
                                                        March 2014 
                                                      Participated as Faculty in a program “Master Cares and  Master Shares” on shoulder injuries conducted by Bombay Orthopaedic Society at  TN Medical College, Mumbai. 
                                                         
                                                      February 2014 
                                                      Presented a free paper on “Infraclavicular Brachial  Plexus Injuries- a series of 119 cases” at the annual conference of the Gujarat  Orthopaedic Association at Ahmedabad in February 2014. 
                                                       
                                                        January 2014 
                                                      Presented a paper on “Management of peripheral nerve  injuries” at the annual conference of Vidarbha Orthopaedic Society at Nagpur in  January 2014. 
                                                       
                                                      
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