Dr. Rod Dalziel- Clinical Profile

Undergraduate

Melbourne University and Royal Melbourne Hospital
Graduated in 1970 with Honours in all subjects including distinguished prizes in medicine and pharmacology.

Internship

Royal Melbourne Hospital and subsequently did training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
at The Royal Women’s Hospital and General Medicine at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Post Graduate

• Australian Orthopaedic Training Program (Commenced in 1976)
• Fellow of Australian Orthopaedic Association 1980

Following this he became a Chief Resident in orthopaedic surgery at Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville Tennessee and became American Orthopaedic Surgeon board eligible. He had a subsequent year at the Harvard Affiliated Hospitals in joint replacement surgery and sports medicine surgery. He was involved with a number of sporting teams based in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was one of the original members of the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group and his practice is now based around The Avenue Hospital and having spent time as a consultant at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Austin Hospital and Alfred Hospital.

His professional memberships include

• Australian Medical Association
• Fellow of Royal Australian College of Surgeons
• Australian Orthopaedic Association
• Australian Orthopaedic Association- Victorian Branch
• Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Arthroplasty Society of Australia
• American Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia
• Australian Sports Medicine Federation
• Australian Football League
• Medical Officers Association
• Metropolitan Golf Club
• Melbourne Football Club
• Kooyong Tennis Club

I have lectured on the subjects most relevant to this theme, and these include-

Meetings of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and other local and international meetings on the place of minimally invasive knee surgery, computer navigation, hip replacement & resurfacing surgery, multimodal ways of improving surgical outcome, developed a patient information program, worked with Medicare on electronic web based messaging system, developed surgical techniques of the shoulder as alternatives to surgery such as distension arthrography (hydrodilitation) as well as lecturing on arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder including surgery for instability, rotator cuff repair, arthritis and shoulder impingement.

It is my sincere hope that my expertise will allow more people to maintain a healthy active life style into their third age and to maximize their function in middle age.

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