An all-round athlete, a college champion and Captain of the Bombay Unit Football Team, Dr. Nicholas Antao transmitted his passion for Sports into a full-time profession by choosing to be an Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in Sports Medicine.

A product of the old school of thought, Dr. Antao's training and thinking was very much influenced by the likes of Dr. L. N. Vora, Dr. A. V. Bavdekar, Dr. M. N. Shahane, Dr. R. M. Bhansali, Dr. C. G. Pradhan, Dr. S. K. Bhandare and Dr. R. S. Dhir while working at the K. E. M. Hospital Department of Orthopaedics.

He has served the Bombay Orthopaedic Society as an Honorary Secretary for two terms, Vice President for two terms, before eventually becoming the President of the Bombay Orthopaedic Society.

Always helpful and encouraging to young surgeons, Dr. Antao was instrumental in regularizing the working pattern of the B. O. S. He was the first to initiate printed Annual Reports of the B. O. S., a newsletter called as Orthofront, which published cases discussed in the B. O. S. Clinical meetings, the B. O. S. Master Series and Forums on medico-legal dilemmas and medical ethics.

He is also credited with starting the B. O. S. Best Ethics Essay Award and the B. O. S. - J. B. J. S. Workshop on writing and publishing scientific papers during his Presidential tenure.

Dr. Antao runs a flourishing orthopaedic practice in Bandra and Andheri and is attached as a Senior Consultant to the Holy Family Hospital.