Dr. George KirshSpecialist Hip Knee & Shoulder Surgeon

• MB BS (UNSW) - 1982
• FRACS Part 1 - Passed March 1985
• FRACS Part 2 - Passed May 1990
• Orthopaedic Training Sydney AOA Southside Scheme 1987-90
• EMST Course - Taken and Passed October 1991
• Higher School Certificate School - 1976 North Sydney Boy's High
• Bachelor Of Medicine, Bachelor Of Surgery - University of New South Wales 1982

• 1983: Intern Year - St Vincent's Hospital
• 1984: First Year Resident Medical Officer - St Vincent's Hospital
• 1985: Senior Surgical Resident Medical Officer - St Vincent's Hospital & Nepean Hospital
• 1986: Orthopaedic Registrar - St George Private Hospital
• Appointed to the Australian Orthopaedic Association Sydney Training Scheme
• 1987: Orthopaedic Registrar - St Vincent's General and Private Hospitals
• 1988 - Orthopaedic Registrar - Prince of Wales Hospital
• 1989 - Senior Orthopaedic Registrar - Nottingham, England
• December 1988 to May 1989 - Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital
  Senior Registrar to Mr C L Colton
• Senior Registrar on duty at the time of the Kegworth M1 air crash
• June 1989 to October 1989 - Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital Senior Registrar to Mr N J Barton and Miss H G Prince
• November 1989 to July 1990 - Orthopaedic Registrar - St George Hospital
• Part 2 - FRACS - passed May 1990
• July 1990 to January 1991 - Orthopaedic Registrar - Pacific Private Hospital
• RACS EMST Course - passed in October 1991

Spent with Orthopaedic Surgery Department
St George Hospital
Supervisor: Mr. A. F. Bencsik

• Soccer - Weekend competition and intramural teams
• Squash - Social participation
• Sailing - Racing with the Middle Harbour Yacht - offshore sailing including Sydney to Hobart. Snow
• Skiing - Social Participation

• Visiting Medical Officer - Bankstown/Lidcombe Hospital
• Visiting Medical Officer - St George Private Hospital
• AOA Director of Orthopaedic Training St George Private Hospital

• Infection Control Committee St George Private Hospital

• Fracture and Dislocation of Proximal Humerus in a Two Year Old - Submitted for Publication
• Hydroxyapatite Total Hip Replacement Papers
  Kirsh, G; Kligman, M

• Australian Orthopaedic Association Registrar's Conference
  Sydney 1986 - Melbourne 1987
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Continuing Education Program
  Advanced Trauma Technique, Thredbo 1986
• St George Hospital Orthopaedic Skills Laboratory Workshops, 1986
  Paediatric Workshop - Caterall, A and Morrissey, R
  Knee Surgery with Lewisham Sports & Medicine Clinic
  Arthroscopy
  Total Knee Replacement - Hedley, AK
• St George Hospital Orthopaedic Skills Laboratory Workshop, 1990
  Shoulder Surgery Update - Dove, J; Leong, J; Ransford, A
• Fifth Congress of the International Society of the Knee, Sydney 1987
• Workshop of Total Joint Replacement 1987 - Whiteside, L
• RACS Scientific Meeting - Trauma & Microsurgical Techniques
  Brisbane, 1988
• St Vincent's Private Hospital - Workshop on Revision Total Hip and Knee Replacement - Hedley, AK 1988
• Hip Disorders in Young People, Bristol University 1989
  Bombelli; Caterall; Sharrard; Ring; Ling; Colton
• AO Basic Course, Nottingham 1989
• Surgery of the Foot, St Vincent's Hospital 1990 - Mann, RA
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting,
  Brisbane 1990
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Annual Meeting 1991
• Instructional Courses in Pelvic and Acetabular Fractures, Compound Fractures and Rheumatoid Arthritis, Adelaide 1991
• International Symposium on Locked Intramedullary Nailing, 
  Hong Kong 1992
• International Arthroscopy Association Meeting,
  Adelaide 1992
• Technological Development in Hip and Knee Replacement,
  Breckenridge 1994
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting,
  Melbourne 1995
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting,
  Perth 1996
• State of the Art Hip and Knee Replacement, 
  Banff 1997
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting,
  New Orleans 1998
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting,
  Cairns 1998
• Joint Replacement Conference, 
  Queenstown 1999
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting,
  Brisbane 1999
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting,
  San Francisco 2001
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Continuing Orthopaedic Education Knee,
  Darwin, 2002
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Continuing Orthopaedic Education Hip,
  Sydney 2003
• Knee Replacement, Current Concepts
  Prague 2003
• Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement AAOS Course,
  Chicago, June 2005

• C L Colton, Nottingham - Trauma & Paediatric Surgery 1988-1989
• N J Barton, Nottingham - Hand Surgery 1989
• Assisted Dr Richard Morris in rewriting/restructuring of the Disaster Plan at the St George Hospital in 1991
• Joel Matta, Los Angeles - Acetabular & Pelvic fractures 1991
• Marvin Tile & Joseph Schatzker - Visits to Sunnybrook Trauma Centre
  Toronto 1991
• Michael Chapman - UC Davis Hospital Trauma Unit
  Sacramento, USA 1993
• Osteonics Joint Replacement Factory - New Jersey,USA 1998
• Rothman Institute - Philadelphia 2005
• Stryker Factory/Headquarters - Mahwah, New Jersey USA 2005