Qualifications
FRACS (Orth) — Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2021
FAOrthA — Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Australian Orthopaedic Association, 2022
MIPDEd — Postgraduate Diploma in Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2023
PGDipSurgAnat — Postgraduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy, University of Melbourne, 2014
MBBS — Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Melbourne, 2012
BMedSci — Bachelor of Medical Science, University of Melbourne, 2010
Specialist registration: orthopaedic surgery, Medical Board of Australia.
Training and fellowships
Dr Chandrananth grew up in Beaconsfield and graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2012. After internship and orthopaedic registrar years at Western Health Melbourne, he completed the Australian Orthopaedic Association's accredited training program in New South Wales and the ACT, and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2021. He spent two years in subspecialty fellowships overseas before returning to Melbourne to establish the Collaborative Orthopaedic Group.
Foot and ankle fellowship — Tokyo, Japan (2022) Awarded the International Bone Research Association (IBRA) Scholarship, Dr Chandrananth trained under Professor Satoru Ozeki, past President of the Japanese Society for Surgery of the Foot, at Laketown Orthopaedic Hospital in Koshigaya, northern Tokyo. The fellowship focused on ankle reconstruction, ankle arthroscopy, corrective osteotomy and joint-preserving surgery for ankle arthritis, including the distal tibial oblique osteotomy, on which he and Professor Ozeki prepared a CT-based study of correction. He speaks Japanese.
Foot and ankle fellowship — Bristol, United Kingdom (2022–2023) At North Bristol NHS Trust, Dr Chandrananth trained with Mr Stephen Hepple, past President of the British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society, and Mr Peter Robinson, with a focus on arthroscopic and minimally invasive foot and ankle surgery and total ankle replacement. He completed the Advanced Arthroscopy Techniques Course in Bristol and went on to instruct on it.
International Paediatric orthopaedic training — Portland, Oregon, USA (2020) Six months at Shriners Hospital for Children in paediatric lower-limb deformity and outcome measurement. His study from this fellowship was presented at the POSNA Annual Meeting in 2021 and published in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics in 2022.
He continues to train regularly in total ankle replacement and minimally invasive technique through cadaveric and bioskills courses, and attends the major international foot and ankle meetings, most recently the AOFAS Annual Meeting in Singapore (2026) and the EFORT Congress in Lyon (2025).
Hospital appointments
St John of God Berwick Hospital - Private
Mulgrave Private Hospital - Private
Peninsula University Hospital, Frankston (Peninsula Health) - Public
He consults from the Collaborative Orthopaedic Group rooms in Mulgrave, and at Berwick and Pakenham.
Teaching and supervision
AOA Trainee Supervisor, Peninsula University Hospital (2025–present) — supervises and mentors the accredited orthopaedic trainee on rotation
Mentor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne (2022–present) — mentoring programs for final-year medical students
Junior doctor teaching (2021–present) — regular bone school sessions, intern teaching and exam preparation
GP, physiotherapy and podiatry education (2023–present) — foot and ankle sessions for referrers across Melbourne's south-east
Research and publications
Dr Chandrananth's research covers foot and ankle surgical outcomes, patient education and informed consent, infection prevention in joint replacement, and paediatric lower-limb outcomes. He received the Western Health Best Publication Award in 2017.
Peer-reviewed publications
Huynh TNA, Trinh D, Chandrananth J, Sewell J. An unusual distal tibial metastasis from urothelial carcinoma: a case report. Bladder. 2025;12(1):e21200041. PMID 40747124
Chandrananth J, Hannan R, Bouton D, Raney E, Sienko S, Do P, Bauer JP. The effects of lower extremity rotational malalignment on pediatric PROMIS scores. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 2022. PMID 35818169
Chandrananth J, Fraval A, Chong YM, Chandrananth M, Tran P. A guide to writing eHealth websites with orthopaedics as an example: readability, reliability, usability. Journal of Orthopedics and Rheumatism. 2017;1(2):28–32.
Chandrananth J, Rabinovich A, Kwon D, Karahalios A, Guy S, Tran P. Impact of adherence to local antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines on infection outcome after total hip or knee arthroplasty. Journal of Hospital Infection. 2016. PMID 27101885
Fraval A, Chandrananth J, Chong YM, Coventry LS, Tran P. Internet-based patient education improves informed consent for elective orthopaedic surgery: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 2015;16:14. PMID 25885962
Chong A, Nazarian N, Chandrananth J, Tacey M, Shepherd D, Tran P. Surgery for the correction of hallux valgus: minimum five-year results with a validated patient-reported outcome tool and regression analysis. The Bone & Joint Journal. 2015;97-B(2):208–214. PMID 25628284
Chong YM, Fraval A, Chandrananth J, Plunkett V, Tran P. Assessment of the quality of web-based information on bunions. Foot & Ankle International. 2013;34(8):1134–1139. PMID 23478888
Chandrananth J, Matthews S, Bucknill A. Accuracy of digital templating in restoring femoral offset: comparison of CT and plain radiography. Journal of Orthopaedics. 2012;9(4):e13.
Patient education
Dr Chandrananth was a chief editor of Orthoanswer.org, an orthopaedic patient-information site accepted by the Australian Orthopaedic Association as an official eHealth resource and awarded a silver medal in the Victorian Health Awards in 2012. Three of the publications above grew out of that work.
Recent presentations
Podium, AOA Victorian and Tasmanian Annual Scientific Meeting, 2024 — Ankle fractures
Memberships and leadership
Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Fellow, Australian Orthopaedic Association
Member, Australian Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society
Member, European Foot and Ankle Society (EFAS)
Member, Japanese Society for Surgery of the Foot (JSSF)
Member, International Federation of Foot and Ankle Societies (IFFAS)
Member, Australian Medical Association
Elected roles during training: President, Western Health RMO Society (2015); President, Western clinical school student body, University of Melbourne (2010–2011); Student Affairs Officer, University of Melbourne Medical Students' Society (2007).
Outreach
In 2016 Dr Chandrananth travelled with Orthopaedic Outreach to Samoa, providing charitable clinics and surgery. As a student he was part of the Melbourne Student-Run Community Clinic and completed his medical elective in Papua New Guinea.
In conversation
Lateral Think podcast — Orthopaedic surgeon Janan Chandrananth (Apple Podcasts)
Frequently asked questions
What qualifications should a foot and ankle surgeon in Australia hold?
In Australia, an orthopaedic surgeon must hold FRACS (Orth), the fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in orthopaedic surgery, and be registered with the Medical Board of Australia as a specialist orthopaedic surgeon. Subspecialty foot and ankle training is completed through post-fellowship fellowships, usually in Australia or overseas. Dr Chandrananth holds FRACS (Orth), is a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, and completed foot and ankle fellowships in Tokyo and Bristol and a paediatric orthopaedic training in Portland.
How can I check that a surgeon is registered?
Every registered medical practitioner in Australia is listed on the AHPRA public register at ahpra.gov.au, which shows their registration type, specialty and any conditions. You can search by name at any time.
What is the difference between an orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon and a podiatric surgeon?
Both operate on the foot. An orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon is a medical doctor who has completed orthopaedic surgical training through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and then further subspecialty fellowship training, and is credentialled to operate on the whole lower limb, including the ankle and complex reconstruction, in accredited hospitals. A podiatric surgeon trains through a podiatry pathway rather than a medical degree. Which is appropriate depends on the problem; your GP can help you decide who to see.
Does Dr Chandrananth's research change the treatment I'm offered?
His published work on hallux valgus outcomes, patient education and informed consent, and infection prevention feeds directly into how the practice runs: which techniques are offered, the written and online information patients receive before surgery, and the antibiotic and infection-control protocols followed in theatre.
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Credentials, research and teaching
Dr Janan Chandrananth is a specialist orthopaedic surgeon with subspecialty fellowship training in foot and ankle surgery, completed in Tokyo and Bristol. He is the founder and director of the Collaborative Orthopaedic Group, operates at St John of God Berwick Hospital and Mulgrave Private Hospital, and holds a public appointment at Peninsula University Hospital, Frankston.
This page sets out what sits behind the advice and surgery he provides.
