12th APFSSH Local Organising Committee
Convenor
Dr Tony Berger
Victorian Hand Surgery Associates, Head of Hand Surgery St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Past President Australian Hand Surgery Society, Secretary General APFSSH
Expertise: Rheumatoid Hand Surgery, Hand Tumors
Professor Greg Bain
Flinders University, Adelaide. Past-President Asia Pacific Wrist Association, Deputy Editor Journal of Wrist Surgery
Expertise: Anatomically based minimally invasive / arthroscopic approaches to wrist surgery
Dr Anthony Beard
Royal North Shore and North Shore Private Hospitals Sydney
Expertise: Hand and Wrist trauma, Wrist conditions, Arthroscopic surgery and Peripheral Nerve surgery
Dr Mike Boland
Hand Institute; Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland
Expertise: Elbow, Wrist and DRUJ Arthroscopy and Arthroplasty; Post traumatic Forearm Reconstruction; Forearm and Wrist Biomechanics; Ulna Wrist pain, DRUJ Instability and Arthritis.
Dr Jeff Ecker
Australian Hand Surgery Society, Asia Pacific Wrist Association, Asian Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Hand and Upper Limb Centre, Curtin University
Expertise: Arthroscopic and open wrist surgery, hand surgery, endoscopic surgery
Dr Jason Harvey
OrthoSport Victoria, Dandenong Hospital, President Victorian Hand Surgery Society
Expertise: Arthroscopic Surgery of the Hand, Wrist and Elbow, Sports Injuries, Distal Radius Fractures
Mr Peter Maloney
St Vincent’s Hospital
Expertise: Surgery of the Hand, Wrist, and Peripheral Nerve Surgery
A/Prof David McCombe
University of Melbourne, Victorian Hand Surgery Associates
Expertise: Paediatric and Adult Hand Surgery, Peripheral Nerve Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery
A/Prof Michael Sandow
Wakefield Orthopaedic Clinic and President, Australian Hand Surgery Society
Expertise: Assessment and treatment of disorder and injuries of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.
Mr Stephen Tham
St Vincents Hospital, Dandenong Hospital
Expertise: Hand and Wrist Surgery
Dr James Thomas
Victorian Hand Surgery Associates and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
Expertise: Hand and Wrist Surgery8th APFSHT Local Organising Committee
Co-convenor
Mr Hamish Anderson
Anderson Hand Therapy; Austin Hospital
Expertise: Wrist trauma & instability; Sporting injuries
Co-convenor
Ms Rosie Koh
The Royal Children's Hospital, Current AHTA Treasurer
Expertise: Paediatric trauma, obstetric brachial plexus palsy, congenital hands
Ms Sara Brito
Monash University, Re-Wired Hand Therapy
Expertise: Adult, traumatic, brachial plexus injury
Ms Sally Colwell
ECKO Hand Therapy
Expertise: Trauma and sport injuries
Ms Stacey Cross
QEII Hospital
Expertise: Adult trauma and management of chronic hand conditions
Mrs Katherine Dalton
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Expertise: Paediatric hand therapy, congenital upper limb anomalies
Mrs Joy Hanna
EKCO Hand Therapy
Expertise: Open trauma, PIPJ dysfunction and education
Ms Karina Lewis
Gold Coast University Hospital
Expertise: Adult upper limb trauma, international public health
Ms Hana Peake
Dandenong Hospital (Monash Health)
Expertise: Adult upper limb trauma
