Our Team Approach to Osseointegration for Amputees
Our Team Approach to Osseointegration is based on the collaborative input of our multidisciplinary team members. We have established a comprehensive screening procedure, rehabilitation protocols and patient care guidelines to ensure that patients continue to receive the required clinical support and long-term follow-up. Our team is composed of specialised clinicians and technicians including orthopaedic surgeons, amputee clinical psychologists, pain specialists, preoperative physicians, rehabilitation physicians, physiotherapists, prosthetists, clinical nurse consultants, biomedical engineers and clinical researchers.
Professor Munjed Al Muderis
Professor Munjed Al Muderis is an orthopedic surgeon and discipline lead of the Limb Reconstruction Centre at MQ Health in Sydney. He is a clinical lecturer at Macquarie University and The Australian School Of Advanced Medicine. He specialises in hip, knee, trauma and osseointegration surgery. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Chairman of our group.
Prof. Al Muderis graduated from Baghdad College High School (The American Jesuit) in 1991. He studied medicine at Baghdad University from 1991 to 1997. As a first-year resident, Prof. Al Muderis was forced to flee Iraq as he refused Saddam’s regime brutal orders to surgically remove the ears of soldiers who had escaped from the army. He ended up on a flimsy wooden boat heading to his new home, Australia.
Prof. Al Muderis founded the OGA in 2010 and since then it has grown to be the largest osseointegration centre in the world. The OGA has performed over 600 surgeries and our collaborators around the globe have contributed, making figures close to 800. Prof. Al Muderis has trained over 20 centres worldwide and frequently visits the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, USA, The Middle East, Asia and Africa for surgeries. Learn more…
Our Sydney-based Team
Prof. Munjed Al Muderis – OGA Founder and Orthopedic Surgeon
Prof Kevin Tetsworth – Orthopedic Surgeon
Dr Shakeeb Al-Jawazneh – Orthopedic Fellow
Dr Chris Basten – Clinical Psychologist
Dr Tim Ho – Pain Specialist
Dr William Lu – Clinical Researcher
Dr Greg Bennett – Consultant Physician
Dr Nargis Shaheen – Consultant Physician
Valerio Taraschi – Biomedical Engineer
Claudia Roberts – Clinical Coordinator
Stefan Laux – Prosthetist, APC
Marta Gaeda – Prosthetist, APC
Noelle Coleman – Clinical Nurse Consultant
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Our mission is to help amputees achieve freedom of mobility and comfort.
Osseointegration Group of Australia
- Suite 303, Level 3, 2 Technology Place Macquarie University, NSW 2220 Australia
- +61 (0) 2 9809 2111
- [email protected]
- www.osseointegration.org
