Lingaraj Krishna MBBS, MRCS, M.Med, MRCS, FRCS

Dr Lingaraj Krishna is Director of the Sports Centre at the National University Hospital in Singapore - a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented, tertiary-level centre for sports medicine and surgery. He serves as Head and Senior Consultant of the Division of Sports Medicine and Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University Hospital. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University of Singapore.

Dr Lingaraj sits on the Executive Board of Sport Singapore, which is the national governing body for the sport in Singapore. He represents Singapore on the boards of the ASEAN Society for Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy (ASSA), the Asia-Pacific Knee Society (APKS), and the Asian Knee Arthroscopy Think-Tank (AKAT). He also serves on 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 manuscripts and has been involved in more than 70 conference presentations. Dr Lingaraj graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1997. He completed his Basic Surgical Training in General Surgery in 2003, and subsequently his Advanced Surgical Training in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2007. He completed a one-year clinical fellowship programme in Advanced Hip and Knee surgery in Melbourne, Australia in 2008.