Dr. Anil K. Jain attained M.S. (Orthopaedics) in 1984 from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. He worked as Senior Resident (1985-88) at Central Institute of Orthopaedics, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi and joined as Lecturer(1988) in Orthopaedics at University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), University of Delhi. Subsequently he was promoted as Reader (1992) and appointed as Professor of Orthopaedics in 1997. He was elevated as Principal of UCMS in 2019 and superannuated from the same position. He served as Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, university of Delhi for 9 years and Dean of Faculty of Medical Sciences (October 2020- April
2022), university of Delhi. He was awarded WHO fellowship (1992) for training in spine surgery, IOA foreign fellowship (1999), AO fellowship (2000) and Commonwealth fellowship (2010) for training in spine surgery. He was awarded FAMS by National Academy of Medical Sciences New Delhi (2012) and FRCS by Royal College of Surgeons of England(2011) and Hony Fellow (FIOA) of Indian Orthopaedic Association.

He has published over 150 articles in peer review indexed journals with H index of 38 and I-10 of 100. He has unique distinction of publishing highest number of articles on TB spine in the world with 10 of his articles featured in 250 most cited articles. He is Listed among top 2% scientists from India (independent study by Stanford University Scientist) Google Scholar shorturl@/qHIJ4 foe last 4 years. He was Team lead to
INDEX TB Guidelines( 2016).

He is the Editor-in-chief of Annals of National Academy of Medical sciences. He has been the Editor of Indian Journal of Orthopaedics (2007-2012), launched Indian spine journal (2018-2023), Deputy Editor(2016-2018) of Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Am). He was Guest editor to Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research for Feb 2005
and July 2007 issues.

He is Editor and Principal author of monograph “Tuberculosis of Bone, Joint and spine” by CBS publishers, Multi authored Text Book “Turek’s Orthopaedics Principles and Their Applications” 7(2016) and 8 th Edition (2022) by Wolter Kluwer. “Neglected Musculoskeletal Injuries” by Jaypee medical Publishers, Recent advances in Orthopaedics 2020 He delivered Silver Jubilee lecture of IOA(1993),Golden Jubilee oration(2023), Kini memorial oration(2015), NAMS oration, president lecture IOA, plenary lecture APOA and various other orations of state chapters. He delivered over 500 lectures in various PG courses. He was associated with Indian Orthopaedic Association in various capacities as Member, Executive Committee (1994-97), Chairman, Implant Committee (2002-2004),

Chairman, Superspeciality Training Committee (2004-2006). He was President of Indian Orthopaedic Association ( 2013-2014). Notable contribution of Prof Anil K Jain is that Indian Journal of Orthopaedics got indexed with Citation Expanded and Indian spine journal with DOAJ and Scopus during his editorship.