Dr. Munjed Al Muderis

Professor Munjed Al Muderis is an orthopaedic surgeon and a clinical lecturer at Macquarie University and The Australian School Of Advanced Medicine. He specialises in hip, knee, trauma and osseointegration surgery. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Chairman of the Osseointegration Group of Australia.

Dr. Mustafa Alttahir

Dr Altthir  in Australia at 14 years of age as a refugee from Iraq, and attended Fairfield High School for three years, before completing my MBBS at UNSW from 2003-2008. He completed his Australian Orthopaedic Association training in multiple training centres in NSW, passing his fellowship exam in 2018. Dr Alttahir has completed three Foot and Ankle Fellowships:

Prince of Wales Fellowship, Macquarie University and Campbelltown Private Fellowship as well as International Bone Research Association Fellowship in Basel, Switzerland and in Tenerife, Spain.

Dr Alttahir completed Lower Limb Reconstruction Fellowship at

Macquarie University Hospital and in Deformity Correction, Ilizarov Framing, Limb Lengthening, Lower Limb Arthroplasty, Osseointegration

Dr. Vinay Kulkarni

Is a Sydney based Orthopaedic Surgeon. He specialises in the treatment of adult and paediatric spinal disorders including deformity, tumour and trauma. He also is well versed in the management of general orthopaedic disorders and trauma.

He obtained his medical degree from the University of New South Wales and completed post graduate training in Orthopaedic Surgery with the Australian Orthopaedic Association and the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 2017.

He then undertook further fellowship training in Spinal Surgery in both Australia and Canada. His paediatric spine fellowship was undertaken at Sydney Children’s Hospital (Randwick and Westmead Campuses) as well as The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto. His adult fellowship training was in Canada at Toronto Western Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as well as at Westmead Adults Hospital.

Dr Kulkarni has current public appointments with the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network (Westmead campus), St George and Sutherland Hospital’s. He also has private appointments at Westmead, St George and North Shore Private Hospitals. He consults in Westmead and Kogarah. Most importantly he believes in patient centred care with a strong emphasis on utilising adjunctive treatment in addition to or instead of surgical management where practical.

Reece Jones

Director of SIM Physiotherapy and Head Physiotherapist at WiSE Emergency Clinic. Experience in Emergency Physiotherapy and Hand Therapy at RNSH. Accredited as one of three Physiotherapists in managing Scoliosis in Sydney.

GPs, Practice Nurses, Physiotherapists and Nurse Practitioners

RACGP QI&CPD 3 CPD points

• Identify high-risk injuries in Walk-in wounded patients
• Describe complications of some simple injuries
• Recognise ongoing management and rehabilitation of such injuries
• Develop pathways to refer patients with high-risk injuries

Judy or Robi, Education Coordinators – 9432 8250 or events@snhn.org.au.