Our Guest Speakers

PROF. KERIN FIELDING

A/Prof. Kerin Fielding was the first female Orthopaedic Surgeon in NSW and has established a successful career in Wagga over the past 30 years working at the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital and Calvary Healthcare Riverina.   Kerin has special interests in surgery of Hip, Knee and Spine and Trauma.


    PROF. Fares Haddad       

Professor of Orthopaedic and Sports Surgery and Divisional Clinical Director of Surgical Specialties at UCLH, and Director of the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH) at University College London. Editor in Chief, Bone and Joint Journal (formerly JBJS-Br).




DR. RUJUTA MEHTA

Dr Rujuta Mehta is a well-established dynamic pediatric orthopedic and paediatric hand practise at Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital, Shushrusha Hospital, Surya child care , KLS memorial, and Jaslok Hospitals Mumbai, India .








Prof. Suzanne Pitama 

(Ngāti Kahungunu)

Suzanne is the Dean and the Head of Campus of the University of Otago, Christchurch campus. She is a registered educational psychologist and has been involved in Māori health research  and health professional education for over 20 years. 


 

Tim Wilton

Tim Wilton is currently Medical Director of the National Joint Registry (NJR) in England, a post he has held for nearly 4 years. During the last year he was also interim Chair of the NJR.

He retired from active clinical work as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with special interest in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in May 2021 after 43 years in the health service and has diverse experience in lower limb reconstruction having performed more than 5000 joint replacements.




gARY eNDACOTT

Gary is a motivation speaker. at six months old, his parents were told that Gary had Cerebral Palsy and would never walk, he would spend his life in a wheelchair. The experiences that followed are truly inspirational.


ROD ORAM

Rod Oram has 40 years’ experience as an international business journalist. He has worked for various publications in Europe and North America, including the Financial Times of London. Current work Journalist He contributes weekly to Nine to Noon, Newsroom.co.nz and Newstalk ZB. He is a frequent public speaker on deep sustainability, business, economics, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, in both NZ and global contexts..

CRAIG REUCASSEL

Craig Reucassel is an Australian writer and comedian who is best known for his work with TheChaser and for going through your bins on The War on Waste.He and some friends started the satirical newspaper The Chaser which went on to TV shows likeCNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything.Craig has hosted two series of the award winning War on Waste documentary. He has also hostedclimate change documentaries Fight for Planet A and Big Weather. In 2020 he Directed the movie BigDeal, which looked into the issue of money in politics in Australia.

                    
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