Dr Bernard F. Morrey worked at NASA as an aerospace engineer for two years before receiving an MD degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch . 

He is a Fulbright Scholar and is the former chair of the Department of Orthopedics at Mayo Clinic and a member of the Board of Governors of the Mayo Clinic.  

He served as a member and consultant to the FDA Orthopedic Device Panel for 15 years.  

He is past president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), of the American Orthopaedic Associan (AOA) and of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES). 

He is the past chair of the Board of Trustrees of the J BJS and of the of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons.  

He holds 10 patents for orthopedic devices, and he has authored 12 major textbooks under four different titles, translated into six languages.

He has authored over 435 peer-reviewed publications.  

Dr Des Bokor is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a subspeciality interest in shoulder and elbow surgery with research interests in the areas of instability, biomechanics including WiFi monitoring of joint replacement and arthroplasty design.  

Graduating from Monash University, Melbourne with Honours and completed his Orthopaedic Training in Sydney on the Australian Orthopaedic Association Training Programme, he completed fellowships in Sports Medicine/ Knee Surgery in Sydney with Drs Mervyn Cross and Leo Pinczewski and spent time at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, as a Fellow training in Shoulder Surgery with Dr Richard Hawkins.  

With a Masters of Higher Education (Medical) from Macquarie University, he's a founding member of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia and has held the positions of both Secretary and President, and is a corresponding member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society, the Australian Orthopaedic Association and the Australian Medical Association. He's also an Examiner in Orthopaedic Surgery on the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Court of Examiners.  

Currently the Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW Australia, he also works at the Sydney Adventist Hospital and is a consultant to a number of orthopaedic companies including: Mathys Orthopaedics, Zimmer-Biomet, Wright Medical, Smith & Nephew.

Dr Judy Soper is a Sydney based Musculoskeletal Radiologist.  

She has expertise in bone and soft tissue tumour imaging and has been one of the principal radiologists for the NSW sarcoma service for almost 25 years.  

Having studied medicine at the University of Sydney she then trained in Radiology at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney and was awarded the HR Sear prize for first place in the Fellowship examination.  

Following this she moved to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital as a Neuroradiology and MRI fellow.  

After a further MRI fellowship in California she returned to RPAH initially as a staff radiologist.  

She is now in private practice at the RPAH Medical centre and the Mater Hospital at Crows Nest and remains a Visiting Medical Officer at RPAH.  

Dr Professor Gary Hooper is Head of Department, Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago Christchurch, New Zealand.  

He is a past president of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association and New Zealand Knee Society and past senior examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgery.  

He has been a consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with the Canterbury District Health Board since 1985.  

His main areas of interest include knee injuries and adult reconstructive hip and knee surgery.  

He is active in undergraduate and postgraduate education and heads an active research department specialising in bioengineering of tissues (in particular articular cartilage), implant development, 3-D printing of bio-active surfaces, joint replacement outcomes, rehabilitation following musculoskeletal disorders and fracture healing.  

He is active in promoting Orthopaedic research within New Zealand and the Canterbury area.  

Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS is a hand and upper extremity surgeon at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, Florida. Badia studied physiology at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at NYU, where he also trained in orthopedics.  

A hand fellowship at Alleghany General Hospital in Pittsburgh was followed by an AO trauma fellowship in Freiburg, Germany.  

He runs an active international hand fellowship, serves on the editorial board of THUES techniques journal, and previously organized a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons /therapists devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty. This international meeting was held at the renowned Miami Anatomical Research Center ( M.A.R.C. ) , the world’s 2nd largest surgical cadaveric training lab which Badia co-founded in 2005.  

He later created the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center and Surgery Center at Doral while in 2010, he launched OrthoNOW, the first immediate orthopedic care center in south Florida, franchising it in early 2013.  

Dr. Badia is past worldwide president of the International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand (ISSPORTH and is a member of multiple national subspecialty medical societies (AAOS, ASSH, AAHS), honorary member of more than 10 international hand surgery and arthroscopy associations, and served as honored professor at the prestigious Philadelphia Hand Course in 2012. 

Dr Chris Dodd is a specialist in adult knee surgery and an expert in unicompartmental knee replacement which makes up 80% of his practice.  

He trained at Sheffield University and after undertaking a Clinical Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and a Clinical Readership in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford, was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 1992.  

Dr Dodd is a Designer Surgeon of the Oxford Knee.  

Mr Dodd maintains a high profile on the national and international circuit lecturing on knee surgery and is a past President of BASK and the EKS.  

He was the educational secretary of BASK and maintains a high profile in International Orthopaedics.

Dr Frankle has been with Florida Orthopaedic Institute sinc 1991 and received his fellowship trainng at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and specializes in shoulder and elbow surgery.

Dr Frankle has authored more than one hundred articles in professional journals, maintains ongoing research projects and has presented his findings at various professional conferences.

Dr Frankle currently serves as the Vice President of the Society of American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He is the director of the Biomechanical Shoulder and Elbow Research Lab at the University of South Florida College of Engineering. He is also the director of the Shoulder and Elbow fellowship program, a collaborative effort between Florida Orthopaedic Research and Education.

He received the presigious Charles S. Neer award for Basic Science. fom the American Academy f Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Dr Frankle enjoys setting aside time for researching and finding new ways to innovate and progress orthopedics from surgical perspective. His implementations continue to act as stepping stones that further improve overall orthopedic care.

Dr. Derek Papp is an orthopedic sports medicine physician with the Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Florida International University, and a team physician for the Baltimore Orioles.  

He attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and stayed there for his internship and residency training in orthopedic surgery.  

After doing a sports medicine fellowship at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, he returned to Baltimore and served as part-time orthopaedic surgery faculty at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  

His clinical interests include sports medicine, the throwing shoulder, and elbow.  

On a fun note, he served as MLB's venue physician in Seoul, Korea during the 2017 World Baseball Classic as well as in Mexicali, Mexico during the 2016 qualifier.  

He has been a member of the Major League Baseball Team Physicians Association since 2014.  

He currently appears regularly South Florida PBS’ The Health Channel” as both a host and expert guest.

Dr Pierre Hoffmeyer (Switzerland) Professor Emeritus, University of Geneva, Dr hc.  

A University of Geneva graduate in Medicine, Pierre Hoffmeyer spent his two first years of residency at the Vancouver General Hospital for his general surgery training. He then returned to Geneva where he completed his orthopaedic training in the Orthopaedic Service headed successively by Professors W. Taillard and H. Vasey.  

He trained in upper extremity surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester under Drs Morrey, Cofield, and Chao. He became Privat Docent in 1993 and Professor and Chair of the Division of Orthopaedics of the University Hospitals of Geneva in 1998. He was also Chair of the Department of Surgery from 2007 to 2015. Over the past years, Pr Hoffmeyer has authored and co-authored over two hundred papers in foremost journals of the specialty.  

Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of EFORT Open Reviews (EOR), and is President of the Swiss Foundation for Innovation and Training in Surgery (SFITS) and of the Foundation for Osteo-Articular Research (FROA). He is Secretary general of the Institute for Research and Action against Fraud and Plagiarism in Academia (IRAFPA) and chairs the Ethics and Compliance Committee of the AO Foundation.  

He is a Past President of the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and a Past President of EFORT.  

As well as completing a Medicine Degree from Flinders University, SA, she completed her Masters in Sports Medicine through the University of New South Wales, while being a full time member of the RAAF.  

As a FLTLT doctor, she was deployed overseas for peace monitoring duties to Bougainville in 1998, and enjoyed subsequent postings to RAAF Base Wagga, Balmoral Naval Hospital and ADFA/RMC.  

She has been involved in Orthopaedics since 2002, and she was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2004. Subsequently, Dr Vrancic undertook post-fellowship training in trauma at Royal North Shore Hospital and also completed an Upper Limb Sports, Trauma and Elective Fellowship in Canberra.  

Dr Vrancic is currently the Regional Chair of Orthopaedic training for all the AOA trainees attached to the Southside New South Wales Training Program. Through this role, she is responsible for ensuring the high level of Orthopaedic training continues throughout the Southside NSW Hospitals, and she is one of the AOA Regional Leads for introduction of the AOA21 Training Program.  

Her dedication to teaching was acknowledged at the AOA National Scientific Meeting in 2017, being awarded the Leadership in Orthopaedics Award. As well as teaching, she has presented numerous papers at Regional and National Scientific Meetings, and regularly mentors registrars with their scientific endeavours.  

Dr Roland Hicks is a senior hand surgeon in the Newcastle and Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. After studying at the University of Sydney, Dr Hicks undertook his orthopaedic surgery training in Newcastle, with a further year in Birmingham, UK.  

Dr Hicks now exclusively practices hand surgery and enjoys teaching and mentoring junior doctors and orthopaedic trainees as part of his work in both the public and private sectors.  

Dr Hicks has spoken at numerous conferences, including the International, European and Asian Pacific hand surgery society federation congresses. He was the convenor of the IFSSH Congress in Sydney in 2007 and has also worked as a volunteer doctor, training registrars in Fiji and Papua New Guinea..  

From 2011 to 2013 he was the Director of Orthopaedic Surgery at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle and in 1999/2000 he was President of the NSW Hand Surgery Association.  

Outside of work, Dr Hicks enjoys playing golf, listening to classical music, travelling and spending time with his family, including his two young grandsons. 

Dr Sullivan is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with subspecialty interests in hip and knee arthroplasty.  

He is an Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University. Sydney, Australia  

He consults at Macquarie University, the SAN and Bellavista.  

His current appointments are at Macquarie University Hospital, Norwest Private Hospital, SAN Hospital  

He studied medicine at the University of Sydney and graduated with honours in 1981. He undertook orthopaedic training on the Sydney Australian Orthopaedic Association Training Program and received his Fellowship of the Australasian College of Surgeons in Orthopaedics in 1989. He completed the Johnson & Johnson Fellowship in Arthritis and Reconstructive Surgery at Harvard University, Brigham and Womens’ Hospital, Boston, USA in 1989.  

In 2010 he completed a Masters in Higher Education in Medical Education at Macquarie University.  

Dr Sullivan is a member of the Australian Medical Association, Australian Orthopaedic Association and the Arthroplasty Society of Australia. He has been Chairman of the NSW Committee of the AOA and on the Federal Board of the AOA. He is a Hearing Member of the Medical Council of NSW. He is a past President of the Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society. He was secretary of SICOT 99, Sydney. He was a member of the Federal Government MRI Advisory Board in 2004 and a member of the Board of the National Institute for Clinical Studies from 2004-7.  

Topics covered include Shoulder, Elbow, Knees, Hips and Ankles plus interesting general topics for discussion / presentation in the fields of personal endeavour, achievement and sports in general.  

We anticipate that approximately half the scientific program content will be delivered by invited speakers with the remaining half being delivered by delegates themselves. We are inviting all delegates with a special topic of interest applicable to the Conference theme to deliver a presentation during the meeting if they would like to do so.

Space is limited. We only have less than 30 double occupancy cabins remaining for this conference. Additional family members are also welcome.