Jit Balakumar MBBS, FRACS

Jit Balakumar is a highly respected Australia and internationally trained orthopaedic surgeon. His public hospital appointments include the Royal Children's Hospital and the Austin hospital.

His private hospital appointments include Epworth(Richmond) and The Avenue. His focus of interest lies mainly in three main joints: hip arthroscopy, joint preservation surgery in the hip (osteotomies in children and adolescents, impingement surgery) sports knee in children and scoliosis surgery in children.

Jit Balakumar graduated school at Trinity Grammar in 1992 and attended Monash University where he obtained MBBS in 1998. He completed his residency training at the Alfred Hospital before completing his orthopaedic training in Victoria. He earned FRACS(Orth) in Dec 2006. Subsequently he worked a locum year at the Royal Melbourne and Royal Children's Hospitals. During this year he also completed a fellowship in trauma. In 2008 he traveled overseas to Paris, France where he completed a six month fellowship in sports knee surgery