Pinnacle Orthopaedics
Karthik Ponnusamy is an experienced orthopaedic surgeon currently practicing at Pinnacle Orthopaedics since August 2017. Prior to this role, Karthik completed a fellowship in Adult Reconstruction at Western University from August 2016 to July 2017 and served as an orthopaedic surgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital from June 2011 to June 2016. Karthik's early experience includes clinical engineering internships at Intuitive Surgical, where assessments were made on intraoperative nerve detection technologies and novel spinal surgery procedures for the da Vinci Surgical system. Karthik also served as the design team leader at Johns Hopkins University, successfully developing a spinal screw system for osteoporotic patients and licensing the technology for commercialization. Karthik holds a Master of Science in Surgery from Western University, an MD from Stanford University School of Medicine, and multiple degrees in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.
Pinnacle Orthopaedics
Welcome and thank you for visiting our LinkedIn profile! Since our founding over 50 years ago, we at Pinnacle continue to offer the best orthopedic treatment and patient care available in our community. We provide quality orthopaedic services, physical therapy and magnetic imaging (MRI) to patients with six offices in Cobb, Cherokee and Paulding counties. We also have a state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery center at our office in Woodstock where outpatient surgeries and pain management procedures are performed. We utilize the most up-to-date technologies and surgical techniques to provide our patients with the highest quality orthopaedic care. Our 16 specialists cover the entire spectrum of musculoskeletal care both operative and non-operative including hand, foot and ankle, trauma and fractures, joint replacements and reconstruction, limb lengthening and deformity repair, spine, pain management and sports medicine. We believe in research and education to provide the best diagnostic and therapeutic results for our patients. We hope you will find this page to be a useful tool as you get to know Pinnacle.