Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Prof Shamal DAS DE

 

Academic Appointment:

  • Emeritus Professor
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
    Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
    National University of Singapore

 

Clinical Appointments:

  • Emeritus Consultant
    Division of Foot & Ankle Surgery
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
    National University Hospital

 

Qualifications

  • M.B.B.S., Calcutta, India
  • F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • F.R.C.S., England, United Kingdom
  • F.R.C.S. (Orth & Trauma), (Edinburgh) Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • M.Ch.Orth. (Liv), University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • F.A.M.S., Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
  • M.D., National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

Awards and Prizes

  • Countess of Ronaldshay Gold Medal in Surgery MBBS ,Calcutta 1971
  • Teaching Excellece award NUS 2001
  • Donald Gunn Lecture and Gold Medal 2010
  • Prof A K Saha Memorial Oration lecture and Gold Medalm WBOA 2012

 

Research Areas of Interests

  • Osteoarthritis of the hip in the local community
  • Total Joint Replacement
  • Hip Disorders
  • Foot and Ankle Disorders and Anatomy
  • Bone and Joint Infection
  • Osteoporosis and Fractures - basic science, clinical assessment & treatment

 

Selected Research Projects

  • Assessment of insufficiency fractures and incident knee osteoarthritis in pre and post-menopausal women using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry

 

Prof. Shamal Das De's Selected Publications

  • Acetabular morphometry for determining hip dysplasia in the Singaporean population.
    Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research , Volume 9 , Issue 1 (2014)
    Avi Elbaz , Amit Mor , Ganit Segal , Yoav Aloni , Yee Hong Teo , Yee Sze Teo , Shamal Das-De , Seng Jin Yeo
  • Cemented Cruciate-Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty in Osteoarthritis: A Comparison of Pegged and Stemmed Tibial Designs.
    The journal of knee surgery (2014)
    Siddharth Mahesh Shah , Andrew Quoc Dutton , Shen Liang , Geoffrey Ng , Shamal Dasde
  • Improving stability of locking compression plates through a design modification: a computational investigation.
    Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering (2013)
    D Anitha , Shamal Das De , Khong Kok Sun , Hitendra K Doshi , Taeyong Lee
  • Bicompartmental Versus Total Knee Arthroplasty for Medio-patellofemoral Osteoarthritis: A Comparison of Early Clinical and Functional Outcomes.
    The journal of knee surgery (2013)
    Siddharth Mahesh Shah , Andrew Quoc Dutton , Shen Liang , Shamal Dasde
  • Associations between ethnicity, body composition and bone mineral density in a south east Asian population.
    The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2013)
    Pls Yang , Y Lu , Cm Khoo , Mks Leow , Eyh Khoo , A Teo , Ys Lee , S Das De , Ys Chong , Pd Gluckman , Es Tai , K Venkataraman , Cma Ng
  • A subtrochanteric femoral fracture 15 years after radiotherapy: a case report.
    Journal of orthopaedic surgery (Hong Kong) , Volume 21 , Issue 2 (2013)
    H Sivasubramanian , G Ee , M G Srinivasaiah , S Das De
  • The relationship between body mass index and physical activity levels in relation to bone mineral density in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.
    Archives of osteoporosis , Volume 8 , Issue 1-2 (2013)
    James Wee , Bo Yang Jonathan Sng , Liang Shen , Chin Tat Lim , Gurpal Singh , Shamal Das De
  • Administration of PTH and ibandronate increases ovariectomized rat compact bone viscoelasticity.
    Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials , Volume 22 (2013)
    Xiao Yang , Swee-Hin Teoh , Shamal DasDe , Taeyong Lee
  • The susceptibility of the femoral neck to fracture: An assessment incorporating the effects of age-remodeling and stress reduction.
    Journal of biomechanics (2012)
    Taeyong Lee , Abhishek V Rammohan , Ally Chan , Vincent Beng Chye Tan , Shamal Das De , Thomas M Link , Felix Eckstein , Benjamin W Schafer
  • Femoral canal obliteration secondary to prolonged alendronate use: a case report.
    Journal of orthopaedic surgery (Hong Kong) , Volume 20 , Issue 1 (2012)
    Chin Tat Lim , Tony Setiobudi , Shamal Das De