Professor Brian Freeman

Professor Brian Freeman is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a major interest in both Paediatric and Adult Spinal Surgery. His public practice is shared between the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Women and Children’s Hospital. His private practice is conducted at Orthopaedics SA with admitting / clinical privileges at St Andrew’s Hospital and Memorial Hospital.

Professor Freeman graduated from medical school in 1988 and pursued higher surgical training in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, obtaining Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1997 and Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2010. He completed two internationally recognised Fellowships in Spinal Surgery; The British Orthopaedic Association National Fellowship in Spinal Surgery (12 months, 1998-1999) Nottingham, UK and The Clinical/Research Fellowship in Spinal Surgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia (12 months 1999-2000). Research conducted during this Fellowship (2000) led to the award of Doctorate of Medicine to Professor Freeman from the University of Nottingham, UK (2006).

Professor Freeman has been in continuous clinical practice as a Spinal Consultant for 16 years. He commenced as Consultant Spinal Surgeon at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK in 2000. In 2007, he was awarded the position of Special Professor of Spinal Surgery by the University of Nottingham, UK (2007-2010). In 2008 he was appointed Head of Spinal Services at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Professor of Spinal Surgery at University of Adelaide (2008-present). He was appointed Research Director at the Adelaide Centre for Spinal Research in 2012 and Co-director of the Centre for Orthopaedic and Trauma Research, University of Adelaide in 2012.

Dr Augustus Gonzalvo

A/Prof Gus Gonzalvo is the Director of Neurosurgery at Austin Health, trained both in neurosurgery and orthopaedic spine surgery.

He is actively involved in the management of patients with spinal cord injuries at the Victorian Spinal Cord Service and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre.

He also lectures at the University of Melbourne and supervises the postgraduate (PFET) spinal fellowship at Austin Health. His research interests include: spinal cord injury; spinal, pituitary, and skull-base tumours; and the teaching-learning process in surgery.

Dr Rob Kuru

Dr Rob Kuru is a Fellowship trained (Springfield, Illinois) orthopaedic spinal surgeon who specialises in the treatment of complex trauma and tumour reconstruction as well as paediatric and adult deformity correction. He holds appointments at Lake Macquarie Private Hospital, Newcastle Private Hospital as well as with Hunter New England Area Health Service.

Dr Kuru is currently on the executive board of Spine Society of Australia, and is Chair of the Spinal Prosthesis Advisory Group.

Mr Gerald Quan

Mr Gerald Quan is an Australian and International Fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon specialising in spinal surgery.
He completed his medical training at the University of Melbourne, before completing his specialist orthopaedic training and gaining Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2007.

Subsequently he undertook dedicated Advanced post-Fellowship training in Spinal Surgery in major spine centres throughout the world. This included a 12-month Fellowship at the Spinal Deformity Centre, Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom and a further 12 months at the Spinal Pathologies Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital of Bordeaux, France, the largest and one of the most prestigious spine units in Europe. Gerald was the first Australian to be awarded the Asia Pacific Spine Travelling Fellowship which enabled him as a visiting surgeon to operate and lecture in several of the most important spinal centres in the Asia Pacific, including Hong Kong, India, Thailand and Korea.

Gerald has a strong academic research and teaching background and is committed to the advancement of orthopaedic and spinal research. Gerald is Head of Spinal Research in the University of Melbourne Department of Surgery and head of a basic science laboratory investigating spinal tumours and spinal cord injuries.

Gerald has a strong academic research and teaching background and is committed to the advancement of orthopaedic and spinal research. Gerald is Head of the Spinal Surgery Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Austin Health and Head of a basic science laboratory investigating spinal tumours and spinal cord injuries in the University of Melbourne Department of Surgery.

Dr Raj Reddy

Dr Reddy consults and operates at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Darlinghurst, Sydney. His other appointments are at Prince of Wales Public Hospital where he is the Head of the Department of Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Private Hospital and the Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick in eastern Sydney.

After graduating from Sydney University in 1999 and interning at Westmead Hospital, Dr Reddy worked in general and subspecialty surgical terms before undertaking general surgery and neurosurgery registrar positions. He commenced neurosurgery training in 2005 and completed this in 2009, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. During the course of his neurosurgical training, he participated in researching the radiosurgical treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations, and attained a Master of Surgery from the University of New South Wales.

Following a locum neurosurgery appointment at Prince of Wales Hospital, Dr Reddy undertook a fellowship in complex spine surgery at the Toronto Western Hospital, affiliated with the University of Toronto and working with leading spinal cord injury researcher Professor Michael Fehlings. During this time, Dr Reddy combined working as a clinical fellow with teaching responsibilities and clinical research. He also completed a fellowship in paediatric neurosurgery at one of the foremost paediatric centres in the world, The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

He is a member of the Australian Medical Association, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia and the Spine Society of Australasia, in addition to international specialty associations.

Through his appointment at Prince of Wales Public Hospital and affiliation with the University of New South Wales, he teaches undergraduate medical students and trains neurosurgical residents and registrars.

A/Prof Paul Stalley

A/Prof Paul Stalley graduated with Honors at the University of NSW and for the last 30 years has been an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney.  Prior to appointment at Royal Prince Alfred he trained as a lecturer in Orthopaedics at The University of London and at Stanmore in the United Kingdom.  He has extensive experience in joint replacement surgery for osteoarthritis and has provided spinal surgical services to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

For the last 20 years he has been Head of the Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Unit at Royal Prince Alfred dealing with some 95% of primary bone sarcomas in the NSW population.  He is currently the Program Director of Surgery for the Sydney Local Health District and remains active with multiple publications for limb salvage surgery and complex revision hip and knee replacement surgery.

Dr Ralph Stanford

Ralph Stanford graduated from the Medical School at the University of Tasmania in 1988. He trained as an orthopaedic surgeon in Sydney, NSW and completed surgical training in 1999. He undertook post-fellowship training in spinal surgery and surgical management of spinal cord injury in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States during 2000 and 2001. He obtained a PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2001.

Dr Stanford is experienced in surgical approaches to all regions of the spine. His areas of clinical interest are disorders of the adult spine including degenerative disease, tumours, trauma, infection, inflammatory conditions and acquired deformity. He is closely involved in the management of spinal cord injury at Prince of Wales Hospital and sits on committees responsible for spinal cord injury at hospital, area health and state-wide levels. He has previously been scientific secretary of the NSW Branch of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and the Spine Society of Australia. He is currently on the board of Spinal Cord Injury Network of Australia.