Past Fellows

Paul Gerard Jarman Paul is an Australian trained orthopaedic surgeon. Having completed his training in NSW he made the trip across the Murray and joined as a Fellow in January 2007. Paul has a strong interest in Sports Medicine. He undertook a self-initiated observership with the San Antonio Spurs team in the National Basketball Association in the USA during his undergraduate training, and completed a Masters in Sports Medicine during his orthopaedic training. His final thesis examined the role of arthroscopy in the management of complete rotator cuff tears. Allied with his interest in Sports Medicine is a keen interest in sports generally. Paul remains an avid supporter of the Kings (NBL), Dragons (NRL) and the old dark navy Blues. He has been a cricket umpire for more than twenty years and maintains an extensive cricket library. Paul’s research has focused on shoulder instability. His paper on a novel surgical technique is to be presented at the international shoulder congress in Brazil in September this year. He is currently undertaking a groundbreaking study on cerebral blood flow during shoulder arthroscopy, and undertaking a research project profiling shoulder injuries in AFL players. He has prepared other papers for meetings and Australia and England. Paul plans to travel to the USA and Canada in mid 2007 with his wife Susannah and newborn son Oscar to complete further fellowships at the WB Carrell Clinic in Dallas, the Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine Institute in London Ontario and the St Josephs Hand and Upper Limb Centre also in London. Paul plans to return to Australia to establish a practice focusing on Sports shoulder injuries.

Joerg U. Rhau Joerg is a German orthopaedic surgeon who finished his training in July 2005 with the exit exam. He undertook the major part of his training in the Lubinus-Clinicum, Kiel in the north of Germany. He came to Australia in November 2005 with his wife Stefanie and travelled the coastline between Sydney and Melbourne in a campervan before he spent six months on a shoulder and elbow fellowship at the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne. His major interests are in shoulder and elbow surgery but because of his specialist training in a busy department for arthroplasties he is also interested in hip and knee surgery. During his fellowship with the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group Joerg is working on non-invasive treatment options for the stiff shoulder and is doing a follow up study for lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasties. He also prepared a talk for the annual AOA meeting in Canberra in October this year and developed a survey for hamstring injuries. When he is not busy in theatre or with his research work you’ll find him windsurfing on the bay or surfing at Point Danger in Torquay. Joerg and Stefanie will leave Australia via Singapore in December. Joerg will return to the Lubinus-Clinicum and they are expecting their first baby in January.

Karaikudi G Sriram Sriram started his MOG fellowship in January 2006. He completed his Orthopaedic training from New Delhi and was working as a Consultant at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. He has a wide area of interests which include trauma, lower limb arthroplasty and bone tumours. Having worked in a Medical School back home he has a keen interest in teaching and research.

Caroline Hing Caroline is a British orthopaedic trainee who has joined us from the Pott Rotation, at Barts & the Royal London Hospitals in London. She has recently completed her orthopaedic training, the FRCS(Orth) exam, a Doctoral Thesis and a Masters in orthopaedic engineering. She has spent 6 months as an orthopaedic fellow at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and 3 months at the John Flynn Hospital on the Gold Coast. Her professional interests include lower limb arthroplasty and trauma. Her research interests include mathematical modelling and patellofemoral instability. During her time at MOG, Caroline is reviewing the 5 year clinical and radiological results of the Birmingham Hip resurfacing and metal ion levels following resurfacing. During her spare time Caroline has participated in the Murray to Moyne cycle for the neonatal retrieval service, learnt to climb,, skied in Victoria, learnt to glass blow and started a stone sculpture course. Caroline travelled to Australia via Chile & Argentina and plans to return to England in July via Asia. She hopes to take up a consultant academic post in lower limb arthroplasty when she eventually returns to England.

Damian McClleland On Oswestry/stoke-on-Trent training program since 1999. Since starting at MOG have been involved in a number of projects; Cement venogram: Case report concerning risks of cementation in total hip arthroplasty. Accepted for publication in the journal of Arthroplasty Quadrilateral Space Syndrome: Have been looking at the specific presentation of this unusual condition and have carried out a cadaveric dissection to investigate those anatomical features that can predispose one to developing the condition. Eden-Lange transfers for Accessory nerve palsy: Have reviewed patients undergoing this rare procedure. Results have been presented at the Biannual meeting of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia. Tennis elbow trial: Currently an ongoing trial looking at differing treatment for tennis elbow.

David Woods - David came from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Center in Oxford and was at MOG from August to December 1997. He is now an Orthopaedic Consultant at Swindon Hospital where he runs a successful Upper Limb & trauma practice.

Andrew Hamer - Andrew came from the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield and was a MOG fellow from January to June 1998.

Ike Nwachukwu - Ike came from the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield and was a MOG fellow from July to December 1998.

Martin Woods - Martin came from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Center in Oxford and was at MOG from January to June 1999. He came with his wife Alison and whilst here had their second child . Martin has recently taken up a position as a Consultant in Bury St Edmonds with an interest in the Hand.

Graham Hill - Graham came from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Center in Oxford and was at MOG from June to December 1999. Graham is a final year trainee who passed his FRCS (Tr & Orth) prior to coming to Australia and has an interest in the upper limb and in sports injuries. Grahams research looked at patella stabilisation in the patient with ligamentous laxity and subluxation in hyperextension. He was involved in work on frozen shoulder and OP1 (Bone Morphogenic Protein) within the group. He also prepared two case studies on Familial Tarsal coalition, and Total Knee replacements in Patalectomy patients.

Julian Flynn - came to us from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Julian has been accompanied by his wife Clair to Australia. Julian's main area of interest is in sports medicine and paediatric Orthopaedics. He has a background in research and has presented a number of papers at international forums. Topics for this fellowship include - Fermathron Trial, Bone Bank audit and recognition of injury patterns in elite tennis players.

Oliver S Schindler - Mr Schindler graduated in 1991 from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. He has worked in the UK at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore and for the final two years of his training of the Bristol rotation. In November 1999 he passed his FRCS (Orth) exam and subsequently gained entry to the Specialist register of the GMC. He has worked as a locum consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. He has got a special interest in Orthopaedic sport surgery in particular of the lower extremities. He was accepted in the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group fellowship programme from March to June 2001

Pascal-Andre Vendittolli - Pascal Andre is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon, FRCS(C) who just finished his training at the University Hospital Centre of Quebec in Quebec city, Canada before his appointment at MOG from July 2001 to December 2001. His main interest is lower limb reconstruction specially revision surgery and the less invasive techniques like unicompartmental replacement for the knee and resurfacing for the hip. His research was directed to create an arthroscopic classification of acetabular rim lesion and evaluate the value of hip arthroscopy before a periacetabular osteotomy. When he will return to Canada, he will work as a hip and knee surgeon and professor at Maisonneuve-Rosemont University Affiliate Hospital in Montreal

David J Stitson MBBS, FRCS(Orth), RAF - David Stitson is in his final year of Higher Surgical Training in Orthopaedics and Trauma. He joined the Fellowship programme at The Melbourne Orthopaedic Group from Oxford, England where, most recently, he had been working in the Trauma Service at The John Radcliffe Hospital. David's main interests are in lower limb arthroplasty and trauma, with particular emphasis on knee replacement surgery and knee reconstruction. Whilst working at MOG David is undertaking a prospective study investigating the effects of lung function of Birmingham Hip Resurfacing. He is also continuing the Fermathron trial, set up by a previous MOG Fellow. David will return to Middlesbrough, in the North East of England in January 2002 to complete his training after which he will become a Consultant in the Royal Air Force.

Chris Blundell Chris Blundell is a British Orthopaedic trainee in his final year who has joined us from Norwich in the UK, where he recently completed his Doctoral Thesis and The FRCS (Orth) exam. Chris has come to Australia with his wife, Shirley, and two small children. He has been a Foot and Ankle Fellow elsewhere in Melbourne for the last 6 months and is carrying on this area of specialist interest with MOG for a further 6 months. His professional interests also include trauma, lower limb arthroplasty and research. Chris is researching the contribution played by subtalar joint instability in ankle inversion injuries. He is also conducting a comparative anatomy study between the subtalar joint in humans and the equivalent equine joint. Like previous fellows he will carry on the Fermathron Trial started in 2000, hopefully taking it nearer its conclusion. On returning to England in July 2002 Chris hopes to take up a consultant post which will enable him to continue his surgical interests and his academic activities.

Nick Phillips Nick started here in July 2002, having almost completed his higher surgical training in the UK, based at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. Nick travelled here with his wife Diane, and their three small children. His interests lie in upper limb reconstruction, both in soft tissue and arthroscopic work as well as arthroplasty. Nick is researching humeral stress fracture patterns in tennis players, and some work is to be presented at his year's Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia meeting. Also a project to look at the pathology, imaging and surgical variants of traumatic CMC dislocations of the thumb is currently underway. Finally, he continues the Fermathon trial data acquisition, as it draws toward completion. After the Fellowship Nick hopes to take up a consultant post in the spring of 2003, concentrating on the treatment of upper limb conditions.

Roland Pratt Roland Pratt started here in January 2003, visiting from the Northern Region orthopaedic training scheme, based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. Roland travelled here with his wife Fiona, who originally came from Melbourne. He is planning to specialise in upper limb surgery but has a broad research interest. Roland has presented work on post-operative ulnar nerve palsy, extensor carpi ulnaris subluxation and Kienbock's disease at this year's Australian Hand Surgery Society meeting in Perth. He is gathering data on patients who have had acute distal biceps tendon rupture repair using a minimal anterior approach to assess the results of surgery. He is finishing the required acquisition of data for the Fermathon trial, and has will be analysing this data. After the fellowship Roland returns to the U.K. to defend his doctoral thesis and to complete his orthopaedic training program.

Diane Back Diane started here in July 2003, she is a final year trainee from the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK. She came to Melbourne with her husband, Preston. She plans to specialise in Lower Limb Reconstruction and sports injuries. Di has completed an independent prospective outcome review of the Birmingham Hip resurfacing. From this work we have evaluated the learning curve associated with this procedure and the incidence of heterotopic ossification. She has also continued to assess patients for the on going Fermathron trial which should be concluded in the next six months. After her Fellowship, she hopes to take up a consultants post in Lower limb Reconstruction in the summer of 2004.

Callum Clark Callum undertook his medical training at Cambridge and his Orthopaedic training in London, UK, and spent his previous year at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, where he passed his exit exam. He travelled here with his wife, Karin and their baby daughter and spent his first six months in Melbourne on a foot and ankle fellowship elsewhere. His interests are predominantly in foot and ankle and lower limb reconstruction, including sports injuries. During his time at the MOG, he has been undertaking a clinical study in reconstruction of the plantar plate and is conducting a radiological study into the abnormal kinematics of the ankle in posterior contracture. On return to the UK, Callum will be looking to set up a foot and ankle/lower limb practise as a Consultant in the South of England

Denis Collins Denis started here in July, 2005 having completed his higher surgical training in Ireland. His interests lie in trauma, lower limb reconstruction, including arthroplasty, soft tissue and arthroscopic surgery. Denis undertook research into impingement following Birmingham hip resurfacing, problems associated with accelerated early discharge policy and arthroscopy following total knee arthroplasty. This work was presented at the Australia Arthroplasty Society. Denis will return to Ireland in 2006 where he will take up a consultant position in Beaumont Hospital and Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in Dublin.