Dr. Anand Thakur is currently in private practice in Mumbai and teaches postgraduate courses in orthopedics. He received his MS ortho degree from the University of Bombay in 1970 and his MBBS degree from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore, in 1965. He has worked as a consultant orthopedic surgeon at Cambridge Military hospital, Aldershot, UK, and RN Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Juhu, Mumbai; he was professor of orthopedic surgery at GS Medical College, Parel, and university of Bombay, Mumbai. He has authored three bestsellers, namely Locking Plates: Concepts and Applications (2E), Strategic Radiographic Positioning for Orthopedicians and Radiologists, and The Elements of Fracture Fixation (5E). He has also published several research papers in indexed journals