Dheera Ananthaksrishnan, MD

SPINE SURGEON, MEDICAL ADVISOR

Dheera Ananthakrishnan, MD, MSE, MBA is an orthopedic spine surgeon with over 20 years of academic practice in complex spinal deformity surgery, most recently at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. While at Emory, Dr. Ananthakrishnan started a women’s multidisciplinary clinic, bringing together orthopedics, physical therapy, medicine, endocrinology, psychology, and pain management to treat patients. She was voted one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors six times.

Dr. Ananthakrishnan is also a co-founder of Orthopaedic Link, a non-profit whose mission is to leverage idle, usable surplus from orthopaedic implant companies to provide surgeons, hospitals, and NGOs in low and middle-income countries with equipment specific to their surgical needs. She received her MD from Albany Medical College in New York.