The Fellowship offers experience in joint replacement, joint revision and musculoskeletal tumour surgery. The Fellow will be an integral part of a multidisciplinary musculoskeletal oncology team concerned with limb salvage.
Mr Shimmin has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures with special expertise in hip and knee joint replacement and arthroscopy and knee reconstruction of injured athletes.
The Fellowship is largely clinical with a heavy weighting towards knee surgery. Some flexibility exists to structure the Fellowship with additional exposure to hip and/or shoulder surgery.
The Fellowship focuses on the Fellow obtaining a broad knowledge of all aspects of foot and ankle surgery. The Fellow will experience elective and trauma foot and ankle surgery and become competent performing such surgery.
Dr Albietz exclusively consults and operates on all spinal conditions affecting the neck and lower back from disc prolapses causing sciatica to complex scoliosis or spinal tumour surgery in both adults and children.
Dr Dickinson has been an orthopaedic surgeon at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane for 25 years and established the Queensland Bone Tumour Registry, which he continues to chair.
Mr Baré is an Australian and internationally trained orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in hip and knee surgery including the treatment of sports injuries and arthritis.
Dr Bergman specialises in adult reconstruction and joint replacement surgery of the lower limbs. He has a special interest in hip and knee revision arthroplasty and difficult or unusual primary arthroplasty.
The Fellow is expected to become an integral part of the department, which undertakes the full spectrum of arthroplasty work. The Fellow will be assessing new and follow-up patients in clinic and attending theatre lists.