Dr. Ashok Rajgopal is a well-versed orthopedic surgeon in India. He has performed almost 10,000 arthroscopic and more than 3,200 total knee arthroscopic surgeries. He completed his MBBS from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune University in 1974. Later, he obtained MS (Ortho) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1979, followed by MCh (Ortho) in 1983, FIMSA from International Medical Sciences Academy in 1996, and he polished his skill by doing FRCS from Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh in 2010. To his credit are numerous firsts-the first to perform a bilateral procedure in India, the first to use the Gender implant (designed especially for female patients), the first to perform total knee replacement using Patient Specific Instrumentation, and the first to perform minimally invasive total knee replacement in India. He is a designer surgeon and a member of the design team responsible for the design and development of the latest knee implant.