Dr. Subodh M Shetty graduated from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal in 1992. His basic orthopedic training was at KMC, Manipal, and JNMC, Belgaum. He worked at city hospital and research center with prof Shantharam Shetty at Mangalore. In Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai worked as spine fellow under prof P S Ramani. He got trained in minimally invasive spine surgery at Fujita Health University in Japan. His training in pediatric spine surgery and deformity correction was in Germany. He has attended international conferences in Japan, Switzerland, Netherlands and updated himself in recent trends in spine surgery.He is senior spine consultant at Apollo Hospital, Promed Hospital, and Sagar Hospital Bangalore. He is an expert in treating slipped disc problems of the neck and lower back using minimal invasion techniques. He has been treating pediatric spine problems with hunch back problems.