Hip and Knee Reconstructive Surgery in Western Sydney

Dr Rami Sorial was trained in Sydney and completed Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1993. He undertook two further years of subspecialty training in hip and knee surgery including fellowships in Phoenix, Arizona and Boston, Massachusetts and further training in London before returning to a senior lecturer post at the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1996.He was appointed to the Nepean Hospital in 1997 as a VMO and continues to provide a specialty practice in both primary and complex revision joint reconstruction, knee and hip replacement, arthroscopic knee surgery and ligament reconstruction as well as a trauma service for a busy regional trauma centre.Having served as department head for over a decade he is now a senior VMO at Nepan with appointments also to Nepean Private Hospital. His academic appointments include Adjunct Associate Professor of surgery Sydney University. Dr Sorial has lectured extensively on the wide topics of joint replacement and reconstruction both nationally and internationally and has participated in demonstration surgeries locally and overseas to advance and share surgical skills particularly within the Asia Pacific Region.He was awarded a visiting professorship through Sichuan University for his work in West China Hospital, Chengdu and has served for 3 years as the President of the Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society (see http://apasonline.org ). He is currently the scientific chairman of APAS and is involved in organising international conferences to share knowledge with colleagues in India, China, Thailand, Malaysia and Egypt.A/Prof Sorial has also been the Chief Medical Advisor for Zimmer Biomet Asia Pacific for the last 3 years providing extensive educational support to the region.