Associate Professor David Parker
A specialist in disorders and surgery of the knee joint, with particular interests in sports injuries, ligament reconstruction, realignment surgery and cartilage pathology, and knee replacement surgery. Prof Parker completed fellowships in London, Ontario, and has been in practice in Sydney since 2001, specialising exclusively in disorders of the knee joint, with Visiting Medical Officer appointments at the Royal North Shore Hospital, North Shore Private Hospital and the Mater Private Hospital. He was co-founder of the Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute in 2002, and has a particular interest in translational research in the area of knee surgery, with more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, and over 100 invited presentations around the world . He is a clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Past President of APKASS, Board Member of ACL study group, and 2nd Vice President of ISAKOS
Peter McEwen
Fellowship trained subspecialist knee surgeon in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
Secretary of the Australian Knee Society
Member of the AOANJRR Committee
Founder and Chairman of The Orthopaedic Research Institute of Queensland.
In excess of 20 publications in peer-reviewed journals including in vitro, animal and clinical research platforms including an invited chapter on CAS Kinematic Alignment.
Areas of interest include Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, advanced technologies and alternative alignment in total knee arthroplasty, patient optimisation and infection prevention, knee ligament reconstruction.
Dr Samuel J MacDessi
MBBS (Hons) FRACS FAOrthA PhD
Dr MacDessi is the Chairman of Orthopaedics at St George Private Hospital and Director of Research at Sydney Knee Specialists. Dr MacDessi specialises in knee arthroplasty and knee sports medicine surgery. He has a research interest in evolving techniques in knee arthroplasty surgery and has extensive experience in the field of cartilage restoration surgery, osteotomy and ligament reconstruction. His recent research has been on defining the relationship of alignment and soft tissue balance in total knee arthroplasty, with the aim to delivering more effective ways of restore each patient’s unique anatomy and improving outcomes.
Dr MacDessi was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2004 and was the Knee and Hip Reconstruction Fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York in 2005-06. He has a PhD in knee surgery from the University of NSW that culminated in development of a surgically applicable classification for knee alignment phenotypes: the “Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee” or CPAK classification. He has co-authored texts on minimally invasive knee surgery, has multiple publications in the field of knee surgery, and is a reviewer and editor for several international Orthopaedic journals. He is a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, the Australian Knee Society, the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine and the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons.