Dr. Mohan Madhav Desai , a man whose smiling and calm behaviour encompasses a pleothra of ideas and thought. An Undergraduate of Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai and Postgraduate from LTMMC & Sion Hospital, Mumbai , he has been bathed in the academic milieu of Mumbai . He is currently the HOD , Department of Orthopaedics , Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel.

Dr. Desai born in 1964 , a year prior to the year Bombay Orthopaedic Society was formed. He fondly says that he grew with BOS academically and almost considers it his contemporary. He became a BOS member in 1992 and used to attend many clinical meetings & courses of BOS since his PG days. It helped him immensely as in that era there were no internet, e-resources and limited access to literature. The collective wisdom of the legends and eminent orthopaedic surgeons were all that was available.

He was introduced in the BOS community as a member by his then boss Dr. Sushil Sabnis. He had an opportunity to read a paper in WIROC 1992 which was his original work on ulnar claw hand. Later he got an opportunity to do the Merck BOS fellowship for 3 weeks to Chennai, Madurai & CMC Vellore where he spent one week each at these places. It was a general orthopedic exposure but it gave him an opportunity to learn and socialize, thus fostering his belief in the local fellowships.

He became BOS EC member with Prof Dr. Naushad in 2007. They worked with Dr Karkhanis, Dr Antao & Dr. Jhunjhunwala as presidents in those 3 years . They conducted WIROC 2010 as Organising Secretaries in Grand Hyatt in He also did basic arthroplasty courses earlier which included cadaveric courses for the first time in BOS, the bodies were fresh frozen which gave a simulated feel of operating on live persons ; with Dr P.B. Bhosale as the convener & Dr. Desai as the co-convener . Inspite of being a 6 day course, this course was an all time hit. There was always ever growing demand & calls for getting registered for this course. The convenors had to disappoint people on several occasions due to logistical reasons of cadaveric hands on. Yet often enrolling 2-3 last minute additions on special demands.

Dr. Desai started a new course in BOS which was the Pelviacetabular course for the first time in 2011 and he was the convener for the same.

In 2016, he got an opportunity to be Vice President . This was the 50th year of Wiroc. He remembers of an instance when there were 21 live surgeries , streaming in , in various fields like arthroplasty, trauma & spine ,all being performed in KEM hospital from 7 blocks of operation theater.

Dr. Mohan Desai became President Elect of BOS in 2023 and conducted Wiroc 2024 at J W Marriott , Mumbai It was his idea of starting a sponsored BOS arthroplasty fellowship for 6 weeks. As a pilot project, it was started in KEM hospital in 2024. They have had 2 fellows in 2 years so far. It was incidental that KEM hospital acquired a fully automatic robot through CSR activity of BK Tyres industry & with support of Dr. Vaibhav Bagaria , a KEM Alumni . Both the fellows of arthroplasty got to watch robotic knee surgeries & could get hands on the cadaver to practice robotic surgeries.

According to Dr.Desai BOS is a big family & there are continuous exchanges of thoughts and knowledge amongst the members. Now , BOS has grown in its membership & with members spread all over the country & abroad, the future looks bright and promising.