Mr. Russell Miller

Mr. Russell Miller

Qualifications

Secondary Education

• Essendon Grammar School VCE 1974 – Honours 6 subjects

Undergraduate

• Melbourne University
  
• Bachelor of Medicine
  
• Bachelor of Surgery – Honours Class One

Post-Graduate

• Resident Medical Officer Alfred Hospital – 1981-1982
  
• General Surgical Registrar Cardiothoracic Surgical Registrar Alfred Hospital – 1983
  
• Vascular Surgical Registrar, General Surgical Registrar Alfred Hospital – 1984
  
• General Surgical Registrar Professorial Unit Alfred Hospital – 1985
  
• Orthopaedic Registrar Austin Hospital – 1986
  
• Orthopaedic Registrar Western General Hospital – 1987
  
• Orthopaedic Registrar Alfred Hospital – 1988
  
• Orthopaedic Registrar Royal Children's Hospital – 1989
  
• Oxford University - Master of Science 1990-1992
  
• University of Strathclyde – Diploma of Biomechanics 1991-1992

Post-Fellowship Training

• Knee/Shoulder Fellow, Newmarket General Hospital, United Kingdom
  
• Research Fellow, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Oxford University, United Kingdom
  
• Trauma Fellow, Association of Osteosynthesis, Salzburg Austria
  
• Orthopaedic Knee Fellow, Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital, Toronto Canada

Academic Awards and Fellowships

• Howmedica Prize Awarded to best research project presented by an Australian Orthopaedic Registrar 1988
  
• Alfred Hospital Research Prize awarded to best research project performed at Alfred Hospital 1988
  
• Essendon Centenary Award for Career development of outstanding young individual 1989
  
• Fourth European Clinical Symposium on Bone Healing and Tissue Regeneration – Prize Best Clinical Paper 2007

Memberships

• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
  
• Australian Orthopaedic Association
  
• Australian Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  
• Australian Medical Association
  
• Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  
• Australian Doctor's Fund
  
• Australasian Orthopaedic Trauma Society
  

Current Hospital Appointments

• Visiting Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Alfred Hospital
  
• Visiting Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Bacchus Marsh Hospital
  
• Visiting Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Epworth/Freemasons Private Hospital
  
• Visiting Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Western Private Hospital

Past Hospital Appointments

Visiting Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Royal Melbourne Hospital Melbourne

Current Administrative Positions

• Senior Consultant Alfred Hospital
  
• Teaching Monash Medical School – Orthopaedic Trauma
  
• Convenor of Trauma Section Victorian and Tasmanian Regional Training Orthopaedic Registrar Program
  
• Orthopaedic Representative Board of Studies Victorian Orthopaedic Registrar Program
  
• Convenor Bone School Studies

Medical Education and Research

• I have lectured and presented Nationally and Internationally including involvement in the demonstration of orthopaedic surgical techniques in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Ost Holland in 1991 and Cairns Australia in 1998.
• I presented an "Invited Paper" at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons held in New Orleans in 2003.

Since 1989 to the current time I have presented at many venues including:-

• Western Pacific Orthopaedic Society Singapore 1989
  
• International Knee Society Toronto Canada 1991
  
• Combined meeting of Orthopaedic Associations of the English Speaking World 1992
  
• Stryker Australia Cairns 1998, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 2001
  
• Stryker Trauma Symposium in France 2002
  
• Stryker Australia Gold Coast 2002
  
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons April 2005
  
• Device Technologies Port Douglas 2006
  
• Stryker Biotech Amsterdam March 2007
  
• Stryker Symposium Nice France September 2007

I travel frequently to research new and improved methods of treatment and surgical techniques.

Scientific Presentations

• Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Meetings
  1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
• Australian Orthopaedic Association Continuing Education
  1995
• Australian Knee Club
  1988
  1995
• Australian Orthopaedic Registrars National Meeting
  1988
  1989
• Alfred Hospital Surgical Research
  1988
• British Knee Society
  1991
• British Orthopaedic Research Society
  1991
• British Orthopaedic Association
  1991
• German Rheumatoid Association
  1991
• Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham England Symposium
  1991
• SICOT International Meetings, Budapest Hungary
  1991
• Victorian Orthopaedic Registrar Seminars
  1986
  1987
  1988
  1989
• Australian Sports Institute Medical Symposium
  1989
• Girdlestone Society United Kingdom
  1989
  1991
• Victorian Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting
  1987
  1994
• Western General Hospital Annual Presentation
  1987
• Austin Hospital Annual Presentation
  1988
• Newmarket General Hospital United Kingdom
  1990
• Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Oxford University United Kingdom
  1991

Design and Development of Orthopaedic Devices

Principal Researcher

Stryker Biotech

• Trauma Regional Advisory Board – Barcelona Spain 2008          
• National Trauma Research institute

Wyeth

• National Trauma Research institute

Publications

Papers

Chapter on Outcome Measures in Knee Surgery – Oxford 1992

Chapter on Bone Morphogenic Protein: Their Role in Fracture Management – Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care – November 2005

Assessment of Graft Length Required for Anterior Cruciate Reconstruction – Journal Bone Joint Surgery 1991

Chondrolysis Complicating Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis – Journal Bone Joint Surgery 1991

Patellar Dislocation Treated by Closed Lateral Release – Australian and New Zealand Journal Surgery 1993

The Normal Characteristics of Baumann Angle: An Aid in the Assessment of Supracondylar Fractures – Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics 1992

A New Classification of Osteoarathritis of the Knee – ACTA Scandinavica October 1992

A Study of the Oxford Knee Used to Treat Medial Compartment Osteoarthritis – Clinical Orthopaedics May 1993

Lateral Unicompartmental Arthroplasty with Oxford Knee : Patient selection and Survivorship Analysis – ACTA Scandanavia Orthopaedica 1996

Measurement of Patello-Femoral Force using a New in-Vitro Technique – Journal of Biomechanics 1996

Management of Acute Knee Injuries – Medical Observer March 2000

Functional Outcome of Tibial Plateau Fractures treated with Infer-Wire Fixateur Injury – JINJ- D 2004

Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenic Protein 2 for Treatment of Open Tibial Fractures: A prospective Controlled, randomized Study of Four Hundred and Fifty Patients – Journal Bone Joint Surgery December 2002

Manuscripts

• The Q Angle and lateral Retinacular Release:  An In-vitro study of Patellar Forces
• Extensor Mechanism Mechanics after Knee Replacement. An in-vitro study comparing  three designs.

Abstracts

Numerous abstracts published from 1989 to 2003