Bill Sears

Mr Sears is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Spinal Surgeon.  He is in private surgical practice, consulting at the Wentworth Spine Clinic in Roseville, Sydney and operating at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga.

He studied medicine at the University of Sydney and Sydney Hospital Clinical School.  Following internship at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, he underwent basic general surgical training at Guy's Hospital, London.  He then trained in Neurosurgery at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, prior to completing a 12-month neurotrauma fellowship in Toronto, Canada.  He gained his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1987.  He was appointed staff specialist Neurosurgeon at the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1988 and was made a Visiting Medical Officer in 1991.  Since 1997, Mr Sears has sub-specialised solely in the field of spinal disorders.  He was neurosurgeon to the Hospital’s Spinal Cord Injuries Unit for 18 years: from 1988-2000 and 2006-2014.  

Mr Sears maintains an active interest in laboratory and clinical spinal biomechanics research.  He conducts observational, clinical research into a number of degenerative spinal disorders.  In 1993, he began a prospective surgical outcomes database, which now includes self-reported clinical outcome data on approximately four thousand patients.  He is a co-author of 30 peer-reviewed publications, has presented over 150 invited and peer-reviewed lectures at national and international scientific meetings and received national and international presentation awards.

 ​Mr Sears is the Immediate Past-President of the Spine Society of Australia and a past-President of the Asia-Pacific Cervical Spine Society and the NSW Neurosurgical Association.