FACULTY

Mr Jonathan Baré is an Australian and internationally trained orthopaedic surgeon. He specialises in hip and knee surgery including the treatment of sports injuries and arthritis. He was born and educated in Melbourne, completing his medical degree at Monash University in 1992. He undertook orthopaedic training in Melbourne and obtained a fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2003.

Jonathan completed further training overseas. He spent 18 months in Oxford, UK, as a fellow at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre specifically training in complex knee surgery. He then spent a further 12 months working at the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) focusing on revision hip and knee surgery. During his overseas training Jonathan gained experience in sports surgery, osteotomy of the hip and knee, hip arthroscopy and all aspects of hip and knee replacement surgery. He was also involved in research and medical education.

Since returning to Melbourne in 2005 Jonathan has joined the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. He is currently a member of The Girdlestone Society (Oxford) and the Australian Orthopaedic Association.

• Director of specialist surgery at The Austin and Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne

• Official Club Surgeon Collingwood AFL Club

• Multiple awards

  • LO Betts medal (AOA)
  • Takagi – Watanabe award (APKASS)
  • Trained over 100 Australian and International Fellows
  • Awarded travelling fellowships for teaching by RACS, AOA, APOA, AKS, ISAKOS, APKASS and others
  • Executive and Committee roles within APOA, AOA, AKS, ISAKOS, Magellan, ACL Study group
  • Editorial boards for multiple journals

Academic Education & Training:

Career History:

Lecturer at medical education events & training courses (for OT staff, orthopaedic & trauma surgeons, infectious disease specialists and microbiologists) with focus on bone cements, cementation techniques in arthroplasty, prosthetic joint infections, diagnostics & rational use of antibiotics in orthopaedic infections

Speaker at 30 congresses in Orthopaedics and Clinical Microbiology Australia, Argentina, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, UK, Italy Germany & Switzerland

Publications:

• 28 scientific publications in peer-reviewed national & international jounals, including Eur. J. Biochemistry, J Immunology, J. Clin. Microbiology, Vaccine, Emerg. Infect. Diseases, Orthopäde, Unfallchirurg
• 3 book chapters in books on Prosthetic Joint Infections
• Kühn KD., Lieb E. and Berberich C. PMMA bone cement : What is the role of local antibiotics? Maitrise Orthopédique, No. 255 June (Special Update), 2016
• Sanz-Ruiz P., Villanueva-Martinez M. and Berberich C. Benefit and risks of antibiotic-loaded bone cements (ALBC), in Kühn KD (Ed.).: Prosthetic Joint Infections from an international perspective 1st Ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, 2017
• Villanueva-Martinez M., Sanz-Ruiz P and Berberich C. Spacer management in prosthetic joint infections, in Kühn KD (Ed.).: Prosthetic Joint Infections from an international perspective 1st Ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, 2017
• Kühn KD, Berberich C und Bösebeck, H. Review: Knochenersatzwerkstoffe als lokale Wirkstoffträger - Aktueller Stand bei Ersatzstoffen verschiedenen Ursprungs. Der Orthopäde 01/2018.
• Berberich C, Renz N, Bardelli C and Trampuz A. Results of an international survey re the clinical practice of systemic and local antibiotic prophylaxis in orthopaedic surgery in Europe, submitted

Lyndon is a New Zealand trained Orthopaedic Surgeon who graduated from Auckland Medical School in 2001 and completed his orthopaedic training as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Surgeons in 2011.

Lyndon went on to sub-specialise with fellowships in Paediatric Orthopaedics in Auckland and the United Kingdom. He then completed further a fellowship sub-specialising in hip and knee joint replacement and sports orthopaedics in Melbourne, Australia.

Lyndon is a fellowship trained specialist in:

• Hip and knee joint replacement
• Hip preservation and hip arthroscopy
• Sports surgery including knee and shoulder arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction
• Paediatric orthopaedics

Lyndon has a public appointment at Whangarei Base Hospital. He looks after a majority of the paediatric orthopaedics for Northland children as well as treating adults in joint replacement and being part of the on call roster for trauma in the region.

Lyndon has a private practise as part of the Northland Orthopaedic Centre, Whangarei. His private practise consists of hip and knee arthroplasty, hip preservation and sports injury in the knee, hip and shoulder.

Lyndon is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and New Zealand Orthopaedic Association.

Roger is an Orthopaedic Surgeon working in Sydney, Australia, subspecialising in Hip and Knee Replacement, Knee Arthroscopy and Knee Ligament reconstruction.

Roger completed his medical degree at the University of NSW in 1986. After finishing the orthopaedic training scheme in Sydney in 1995, Roger continued his training overseas first at the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital in Toronto, Canada and then at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London, England, where he held the Commonwealth Fellowship.

Medical School:

• University of New South Wales (1986)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery M.B.B.S., (1986)

Post Graduate:

• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons F.R.A.C.S. (Orthopaedics)

Registration:

• The New South Wales Medical Board

Speciality:

• Hips and Knees

Professional Memberships:

• Australian Orthopaedic Association
• Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Australian Medical Association

Current Appointments (Public Hospital):

• Visiting Medical Officer (Orthopaedic Surgeon), Blacktown/ Mt Druitt Public Hospital Roger is actively involved in Registrar and Undergraduate teaching in the above hospitals

Private Hospital Visiting Rights:

• Hospital for Specialist Surgery, Bella Vista
• HSS Orthopaedics
• Westmead Private

My particular interests are:

• Joint Replacement Surgery of the Hip and Knee including minimally invasive techniques
• Arthroscopic Knee Surgery including OATS Procedures (Osteochondral Autograft Transfer System)
• All conditions of the adult hip
• Revision Joint Replacement

Head of Orthopaedics, Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Associate Professor, University of Melbourne.

Head of the Orthopaedic Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, he has an interest in hip and knee surgery as well as pelvic trauma. Working exclusively at the Royal Melbourne site, he has driven forwards the orthopaedic improvement plan to re-organise and develop the unit to improve quality of care and training.

Andrew was chair of the Steering committee for state-wide implementation of the Victorian Orthopaedic Waiting List Project (OA Hip and Knee Service).

Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Andrew is active in research and teaching. Andrew reviews scientific articles for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and is faculty on the internationally-renowned AO courses for fracture management.

Subspecialty Affiliations:

• Australian Orthopaedic Trauma Association
• AO Foundation Alumni
• British Hip Society
• British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)

Professional Qualifications:

• FRACS (Orth)
• FRCS (Trauma and Orthopaedics)
• MSc (with distinction), Imperial College, London
• MRCS, The Royal College of Surgeons of England
• MB BS, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
• BSc, Upper second class honours, Physics with Medical Physics, UCL

Awards and Prizes:

• Distinction for Masters Research degree
• Rushton Award (UCL) – for research

Fellowships:

Higher Surgical Training:

Research Degree:

Basic Surgical Training:

 

David Campbell practices at the Wakefield Orthopaedic Clinic and University of Adelaide. He is a Graduate of the Australian Orthopaedic Association Training Program with training in the UK and fellowships in Canada. His interests are revision hip and knee arthroplasty. Research interests include primary arthroplasty design, RSA, and surgical safety. He is the SA branch chair of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and immediate past president of the Arthroplasty Society of Australia.

He is a design surgeon with uni and total knee systems, revision knee arthroplasty, acetabular revision systems, and primary hip arthroplasty. He is a keen social skier on water and snow. He is currently an enthusiastic competition aerobatic pilot, which does not please his wife or adult children.

Ashley Carr was born and educated in Melbourne, completing his medical degree at Monash University in 1997. He undertook orthopaedic specialty training in Victoria and obtained his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2007.

Ashley then spent 12 months at the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Institute in Toronto, Canada, focusing on hip and knee surgery. In 2009 he undertook further training in shoulder surgery at the highly regarded Schulthess Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland. Later that year he was awarded the Orthopaedic and Trauma Care Foundation visiting fellowship in trauma surgery in Hong Kong. While overseas Ashley gained valuable experience in the management of hip and knee conditions, from sporting injuries to primary and revision joint replacement; and in all aspects of shoulder surgery including arthroscopic procedures.

Ashley joined the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group in 2011. He has worked at the Alfred Hospital as an Orthopaedic Consultant Surgeon involved in the management of major trauma patients. He has also previously worked at Latrobe Regional Hospital and continues to have close links with Gippsland.

Ashley has published journal articles in his subspecialty areas and maintains a keen interest in research and student teaching. He was previously an Assistant Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery. He is currently the supervisor of registrar teaching at the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group and an Honorary lecturer at Monash University.

Mr Collopy is a busy Perth-based surgeon specialising in hip and knee replacement, revision arthroplasty, and pelvic and acetabular trauma.

He is well-respected nationally and internationally, and is a regular speaker on the national and international circuit.

He completed his residency and advanced surgical training at Royal Perth Hospital. After gaining FRACS Ortho in 1994, he undertook three years of overseas fellowship training in the area of hip and knee arthroplasty and revision surgery, initially at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford UK, followed by a further year at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, and finally a fellowship in pelvic and acetabular trauma at Parkland Memorial Trauma Centre, Dallas Texas. Mr Collopy works as a Consultant at St John of God Private Hospitals in Perth.

His research interests are in hip and knee implant design and fixation, and was one of the design surgeons on the Emperion revision hip system, the Triathlon knee system and the AccoladeII hip system. He, together with one of his partners, Mr Gavin Clark, is involved in developing robotics in knee and hip replacement. Mr Collopy is the immediate Past-President of the Arthroplasty Society of Australia, and is currently the Chairman of the WA State branch of the AOA. He sits on numerous committees, including the AOA Scientific Committee, the COE Committee, and the NJRR Committee.

Professional Memberships:

• Australian Orthopaedic Association – Fellow
• Australian Arthroplasty Society – Member
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons – Fellow
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons – International Affiliate Member
• Australian Medical Association

Mr Adrian Fairbank is an Orthopaedic Surgeon and knee specialist at Wimbledon Clinics with over 20 years of experience as a consultant.

His expertise encompasses non operative, injection and surgical techniques. He is greatly experienced in keyhole arthroscope surgery and open procedures to help patients with knee pain. He has performed over 10,000 procedures in meniscus surgery, ligament reconstruction and joint replacement.

As well as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Adrian Fairbank is a sports injury specialist, treating football, rugby, golf, tennis and athletic-related injuries. Supported by Wimbledon Clinics’ multi-disciplinary team, he has treated patients ranging from Olympic and professional sports stars to leading actors and singers.

Adrian Fairbank qualified in 1986 after winning an award to read medicine at Queens’ College Cambridge, before completing his medical training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London and orthopaedic training at St George’s Hospital.

After an Orthopaedic Fellowship in Australia and the US, in 1997 he was appointed as a Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer to St George’s Hospital, London. During his fourteen years at St George’s, he undertook the roles of Surgical Tutor, Lead Clinician (Knees) and was a member of the Research and Ethics Committee. Mr Fairbank is the chairman of the Medical Academy Committee at Parkside Hospital.

Outside of the operating theatre Mr Fairbank can often be found cycling both in the UK and overseas.

Tasmanian and North-West Coast surgeon Scott Fletcher has just been elected the president of a highly specialised society of Australian medical experts.

Mr Fletcher has taken up a 12 month appointment at the head of the Arthroplasty Society, a group of surgeons who rebuild or replace hip and knee joints.

Mr Fletcher, who has been an active member of the society for eight years, said the opportunity came up for a president to come from Tasmania.

Mr Fletcher is the Director of Surgery for the Tasmanian Health Service, North West and heads the public hospital orthopaedic department. Scott is the immediate past chair of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He also does private work at the North West private hospital.

Mr Fletcher said one of the great advances in joint arthroplasty was the quality of information about the success of joint prostheses. He has a particular interest in knee alignment in TKA.

Dr Brett Fritsch is a specialist knee surgeon and a director of the North Shore Knee Clinic and Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute. Brett specialises in knee arthroplasty and ligament reconstruction with a particular interest in computer navigation and robotics in knee replacement.

Dr Fritsch has appointments at The Mater Private Hospital and North Shore Private in the Northern Sydney area, as well as at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown. He is a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australian Knee Society, ISAKOS knee committee, and American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine.

Dr Fritsch has published extensively on topics including kinematics in knee arthroplasty, patient specific variations relevant to knee replacement, and analysis of patient satisfaction after arthroplasty. He frequently presents nationally and internationally on his experience.

Professor Fares Haddad is a Hip and Knee Reconstructive Orthopaedic and Sports Surgeon at University College Hospitals. He is Divisional Clinical Director of Surgical Specialities at UCH, and Director of the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at University College London.

He graduated from the University College London Hospitals with a First Class BSc and MB BS. His basic training in hip and knee surgery and reconstruction started in London on the St. Bartholomew’s Royal Free and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital rotations and was subsequently enhanced by fellowship training in the United States and Canada. He was a gold medallist in the FRCS (orth) exam and has gained a large number of prizes and prestigious academic awards. He has been an EFFORT Travelling Fellow, British Hip Society Travelling Fellow and ABC Travelling Fellow in 2004. He became a Hunterian Professor in 2005.

Professor Haddad’s clinical and research endeavours have centred around hip and knee reconstruction. His interests include the expansion of knee and hip arthroscopic techniques to deal with sports injuries, new bearing surfaces and outcomes assessment in hip, knee and revision surgery and use of allografting and other transplant and stem cell techniques in hip and knee reconstruction. His work also encompasses novel strategies to manage patients with knee ligament injuries. He provides medical input at elite level for dancers and a number of sports including football, athletics, rugby, boxing and martial arts.

He has presented and published widely on key aspects of hip, knee and sports surgery and continues to lead a clinical research group with interests in hip and knee joint preservation after injury, the genetic influences on bone and tendon, prosthetic design and performance and outcomes measurement after hip / knee surgery and sports injuries. He is editor in chief of the Bone and Joint Journal, and is on the editorial board of The Journal of Arthroplasty, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons and Hospital Medicine. He has been elected as a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

Dr Nick Hartnell is located in the Southern Highlands of NSW. He and his family live in Bowral. Dr Hartnell has a surgical practice in Bowral, Goulburn and in the Campbelltown/Camden areas.

He specialises in the care of patients surgically while still having a strong belief in the art of non-operative management.

Dr Hartnell completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the Sydney University in 1995. He then went on for his intern year at the Canberra Hospital. Since that time he has been fully focused on orthopaedic training and specialisation. Therefore he has many years of experience in all facets of Orthopaedic care.

As an Orthopaedic Registrar he worked in numerous hospitals both rural and metropolitan and he has vast experience at Royal North Shore Hospital as well as Royal Prince Alfred. He has also completed work at Nepean Hospital, Orange Base Hospital and Lismore Hospital. As part of his training he sought many opportunities overseas and was lucky enough to receive the honour of working at Shriners Hospital in Portland, Oregon USA. There he worked as a Senior Fellow in the Department of Paediatric Orthopaedic surgery and now brings experience of all Paediatric Orthopaedic conditions.

After successfully completing his Fellowship in Orthopaedics at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Dr Hartnell sought more fellowship experience in international hospitals. He then worked in many countries including China, Belgium and England. In China he worked at the Peking Universities Peoples Hospital and had a special interest in joint replacement surgery as well as tumour surgery. In Leuven, Belgium, Dr Hartnell worked with world renown knee surgeons in Pellenburg Hospital. He then went on to do his Fellowship in Orthopaedics and Oncology in Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, London.

After his Fellowship years, Dr Hartnell chose to set up his practice in the leafy area of Bowral in the Southern Highlands, NSW. He then expanded his surgical practice into the Goulburn, and Camden/Campbelltown areas

Mr. Khoury attended medical school at Monash University and trained in Orthopaedics in Melbourne. He completed his Post Graduate Studies in Oxford U.K., specialising in Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery and Sports Medicine.

Mr. Khoury has been working in the Albury – Wodonga Region since 1999. Since that time Mr. Khoury has developed a thriving Practice providing Specialist Orthopaedic Care in Hip and Knee Surgery for both public and privately insured patients.

Mr. Khoury is the Head of the Orthopaedic Unit at Albury Wodonga Health and actively participates in the teaching of Orthopaedic Registrars. He keeps abreast of the latest innovations and trends in Orthopaedic Surgery and is more than happy to discuss these with his patients.

Mr. Khoury is a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, the Australian Arthroplasty Society, the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and the Girdlestone Orthopaedic Society, Oxford, UK.

He is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW.

Robyn has 20 years’ in clinical and industry experience in Orthopaedics. While working in a senior management role in the early 90’s with Stryker Australia she saw a developing need to track patient outcomes which led to setting up her business and the birth of Socrates.

After training as a nurse and working in NZ, UK and Australia Robyn joined the medical device industry in the 80s and has worked in various sales and marketing and product development roles. During her time as the manager of the implant division for Stryker Australia it became clear that doing business in orthopaedics was changing, it was becoming increasingly difficult to sell implants and introduce new technology without some clinical history and knowledge of outcomes. Reimbursement was also getting more difficult with surgeons and payers rightly starting to question the cost of these devices. Robyn also recognised how poorly represented the community surgeons were on the podium at the major meetings, especially from the Antipodes, and there was a dearth of good longitudinal studies on real-life patients treated in the community. After returning to Australia from Boston in 2004 she resolved to use her orthopaedic contacts and knowledge to develop a software program that was available and affordable to all clinicians to facilitate following patient outcomes.

Hayden Morris trained in medicine at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 1983. During basic surgical training, Hayden spent one year at the University of Melbourne as anatomy and physiology tutor.

Hayden underwent orthopaedic training in Victoria and was admitted to the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 1992. Hayden specialises in surgery of the knee.

Hayden is a director of the Melbourne Knee Fellowship, responsible for training overseas specialists in the art of knee surgery.

Brisbane Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre.

Dr. Peter Myers was educated in Brisbane and received his medical degree from the University of Queensland in 1977. He completed his Orthopaedic Training and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1985. He was also admitted as a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 1988. He undertook fellowship training in Atlanta, Toronto and Edinburgh.

His practice focuses on sports orthopaedics, knee and shoulder surgery.

Dr. Myers has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally and holds committee positions with a number of organisations. He lectures at the University of Queensland and is a Clinical Associate Professor with the Department of Surgery. Dr. Myers has a Public Hospital appointment at the Mater Misericordiae Public Hospital.

With his extensive research and lecture program, Dr. Myers has published in many national and international medical journals. A list of these publications is available for download.

Dr. Myers is involved with the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League team, the Queensland Reds Rugby Union team and the Australian Rugby Union.

Dr Parker is a nationally and internationally recognized Specialist in disorders and surgery of the knee joint. He has particular interests in sports injuries, ligament reconstruction, realignment surgery and cartilage transplantation, and knee replacement surgery.

Dr Parker completed his orthopaedic training in Sydney, and after completion of this training he spent nearly 2 years studying overseas in world-renowned institutions to further his knowledge and training in the area of knee surgery. He spent time studying knee replacement with Dr Cec Rorabeck and Dr Bob Bourne in London, Ontario, following which he spent a year studying sports medicine and knee reconstructive surgery under the supervision of Dr Peter Fowler at the Fowler Kennedy Centre, also in London, Ontario. He then spent time visiting other centres of excellence in knee surgery in cities including Stockholm, Sweden and Lyon, France.

Dr Parker subsequently began practice in Sydney in 2001, specialising exclusively in disorders of the knee joint.

Dr Parker established the Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute in 2002, and has subsequently become well known for his research into surgery of the knee joint.. He has had over 100 original research presentations and invited presentations at national and international conferences. He has published over 50 studies in prestigious orthopaedic journals and 10 chapters in orthopaedic textbooks, as well as editing textbook publications.

Gareth obtained his medical degree in the UK at Manchester University and undertook his surgical training in Birmingham. His orthopaedic training was based at the internationally renowned Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2007.

He gained advanced training in hip and knee replacement as the Perth Allograft Fellow and then the Fremantle Arthroplasty Fellow in WA under the supervision of Professor David Wood and Professor Piers Yates. He returned to Birmingham to complete a further fellowship in hip joint preserving surgery in the young adult under the supervision of Mr John O’Hara.

He was appointed consultant orthopaedic and trauma Surgeon at Fremantle and Armadale Hospitals in 2008. Having committed to orthopaedic surgery in Australia he gained Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2012.

Gareth is very enthusiastic about education and is involved in the orthopaedic registrars training programme as well as teaching undergraduates. He has been awarded the post of Associate Professor from the University of Western Australia in recognition of his commitment to medical student teaching. He is regularly invited to teach on local, national and international courses for other orthopaedic surgeons.

He has published multiple peer-reviewed articles and presents regularly at local, national and international meetings. He is a member of the Australasian and British Orthopaedic Associations and has recently been appointed as joint head of the orthopaedic department at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Growing up in rural Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Andrew obtained his primary medical degree in 1980 - MbChB (Rhodesia) and LRCP, LRCS, LRCO&G (Edinburgh and Glasgow).

Sport was very much part of the culture growing up and as a speciality, Orthopaedics seemed a natural progression allowing Andrew's interest in sport and fitness to continue.

After Orthopaedic jobs in Cape Town and then Wangaratta, Penrith and Royal North Shore, Andrew was admitted to the Australian Orthopaedic training fellowship program in Sydney in 1988, passing the Orthopaedic fellowship exam FRACS (Orthopaedics) in 1991.

After a Joint Replacement Fellowship, Andrew worked for 10 years in Dubbo, before moving to Wagga Wagga. This has allowed Andrew to focus more exclusively on hip and knee surgery.

Inspired by great teachers and mentors in Australia and overseas, Andrew's primary interest is now Knee and Hip Replacements and A.C.L. reconstruction surgery and the teaching and training of our future surgeons.

Associate Professor Justin Roe is a specialist orthopaedic knee surgeon who practices in Sydney and Gosford. He has particular expertise in ACL reconstruction and procedures for osteoarthritis of the knee.

He has a special interest in sports injuries, cartilage surgery, knee instability, malalignment and arthritis. He treats a large number of professional athletes, returning them to elite function after injury. A/Prof Roe has performed over 3000 arthroscopic knee ligament reconstructions and 1100 knee joint replacement procedures since 2004.

He was awarded the prestigious 2013 Scientific Award at the ISAKOS congress in Toronto and was appointed as a Conjoint Associate Professor in the St Vincent’s Clinical School of the University of New South Wales in 2014.

Dr. Schmalzried is the Medical Director of the Joint Replacement Institute and a Physician Specialist at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is on the editorial review board of several scientific journals and is the Joint Replacement Section Editor for Orthopaedics Today, the most widely read orthopaedic periodical. Dr. Schmalzried has served on the Board of Directors of the Western Orthopaedic Association, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Orthopaedic Research Society, the Association of Arthritic Hip and Knee Surgeons, and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation.

Dr. Schmalzried attended Stanford University on a basketball scholarship and was a 3-year varsity letterman. He graduated in 1980 with honours and distinction, and was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa academic society. Dr. Schmalzried attended UCLA Medical School and was elected to membership in the academic medical society, Alpha Omega Alpha. He did his internship in surgery and residency in orthopaedics at UCLA. In 1985-86, Dr. Schmalzried was a research fellow in joint replacement, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Following his residency at UCLA in 1990-1991, Dr. Schmalzried was the Hip and Implant Fellow at Harvard University and an Assistant in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Andrew Shimmin is a Graduate of the Australian Orthopaedic Association Training Program and he furthered his Orthopaedic education in the USA, United Kingdom and Europe. In 1997 he became a Member of the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group as a Specialist Hip and Knee Surgeon.

He is currently a Director of their Research Foundation. He has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures with special expertise in hip and knee joint replacement and arthroscopy, and reconstruction of the injured athlete’s knee. He has given over 200 presentations at National and International Orthopaedic conferences (see link) and has over 30 publications in major Orthopaedic Journals and book chapters.

He is a President of the Australian Arthroplasty Society (Joint Replacement Surgeons), is a member of the Australian Knee Society and a member of the International Hip Society.

Andrew Shimmin is an Advisor to the Australian Government (Department of Health) on the safety and efficacy of medical devices.

He is a keen sportsman having had an Association of Tennis Professionals world ranking, played A-Grade amateur football and competed in Veteran’s athletic events. Currently, he remains a golfing tragic.

Simon is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee surgery. He completed his medical degree from Otago Medical School in New Zealand in 1994 and his specialty training as an orthopaedic surgeon from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2004. In 2006 and 2007 he undertook additional training in hip and knee surgery in Melbourne (with John Bartlett and Hayden Morris) and Belgium (with Jan Victor and Johannes Bellemans).

Simon performs surgery on a wide range of knee conditions including arthroscopic surgery and cruciate ligament reconstruction. He specialises in joint replacement surgery, performing over 200 procedures each year, including partial and total knee replacement and revision surgery.

He also a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Western Health since 2006 where he specialises in complex hip and knee joint revision surgery and the reconstruction of traumatic knee injuries.

Simon’s research interests focus on knee alignment including 3D anatomical variations, surgical techniques and component design. He holds a patent on a device designed to improve the accuracy of referencing the trochlear groove to determine femoral component rotation.

Founder and Chairman, MatOrtho Ltd

Michael Tuke co-founded Finsbury Instruments in 1978, one of the most innovative orthopaedic companies in the UK. He is distinguished for designing the original medial rotation (pivot) knee principle, modern metal-on-metal hip resurfacing and large ball ceramic-on-ceramic technology. These are three outstanding UK developments in hip and knee replacement.

 

Academic Appointments:

Specific Teaching Responsibilities:

Bill Walter was born in Newcastle and educated in Sydney. He is the son and nephew of Orthopaedic surgeons, and is both a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Bill is an internationally trained orthopaedic surgeon, furthering his education in the US at University of California and the Hospital for Special Surgery NY.

Bill performs hip and knee replacement surgery and hip and knee arthroscopy surgery. He is dedicated to achieving the best possible outcome for every patient, using the most effective surgical techniques and technologies, so that each patient can get back to the activities they most enjoy.

Surgeries:

• Hip arthroscopy surgery (diagnostic, chondroplasty and labral repair)
• Hip replacement surgery (THR) using anterior or posterior surgical approach, resurfacing hip replacement and revision hip replacement surgery
• Knee arthroscopy surgery (diagnostic, chondroplasty and meniscectomy)
• Knee replacement, including uni-compartmental knee replacement (uni-knee, partial), or total knee replacement surgery.

Bill employs a variety of techniques to optimize patient outcomes including computer navigation, minimally invasive surgery, locally targeted pain control, early mobilization and rapid recovery.

Bill’s research is published in peer reviewed international arthroplasty journals; he is often invited to present his findings at international scientific orthopaedic conferences as a member of faculty and as a member of the expert panel.

He completed a PhD of Surgery in 2006 at University of NSW and was appointed as Associate Professor in 2009 at the University of Notre Dame. Bill currently supervises 2 PhD students, a Masters student and medical students.

In 2012 Bill was the President of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty and hosted the annual meeting in Sydney where other scientific papers were presented, on topics such as robotics and technology in Orthopaedic Surgery.

Bill served as Chairman of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mater Hospital from 2011 to 2014.

He has given many presentations at orthopaedic conferences in Australia and throughout the world and has more than 67 publications in major Scientific Journals and book chapters.

Bill has been elected to become President of the International Society of Orthopaedic Centres in 2016. He will host this prestigious international meeting in Sydney in 2017.

His love of science has become a major part of his career.

Dr. Wood is a senior orthopaedic surgeon at the North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre.

Dr. Wood specialises in arthroscopic and reconstructive surgery of the knee. He has expertise in ligament reconstruction, patella disorders, knee replacement, tibial osteotomies, compartment syndrome and repair of proximal hamstring avulsions.

He commenced practice in 1991.

He has a hospital appointment at the Mater Private Hospital.

His is a former chairman of the NSW branches of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is a past member of the Federal Prostheses and Devices Committee, the Knee Prostheses Advisory Group, the Medical Services Committee of NSW and the Medical Services Advisory Committee. He was a recent secretary and president of the Australian Knee Society for 2014/2015.

Memberships:

• Australian Orthopaedic Association
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Australian Knee Society
• Australian Medical Association
• Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Dr. Geoffrey Workman has worked in the Hunter region for over 9 years, having completed his undergraduate degree with first class honours from the University of New South Wales in 1997. He then undertook extensive orthopaedic training in Sydney and took his fellowship in hip and knee surgery with Dr. Jim Sullivan and Dr. Ali Gursel.

Dr. Workman is the founding surgeon at Hunter Hip and Knee, commencing private practice in Newcastle in 2008. Since then he has travelled overseas to study and research advances in surgery particularly computer assisted techniques that optimise component placement in both total knee and total hip replacement surgery. He also attends courses locally and visits other surgeons in order to evaluate and apply new techniques where they are of value to patients.

For over seven years, he has honed his skills and expertise in anterior approach total hip replacement surgery. This technique allows for faster recovery time for patients and more rapid return to functional activities. He has likewise undergone advanced training in knee ligament reconstruction surgery and management of the multi ligament damaged knee including primary and revision surgery.