Dr George Kirsh

Dr. George KirshSpecialist Hip Knee & Shoulder Surgeon

Dr. George Kirsh was trained in orthopaedic surgery in Australia and England. He has been a Visiting Medical Officer at Bankstown Hospital for 28 years and at St George Private Hospital since its opening over 20 years ago.

He specialises in arthroscopic and replacement surgery of the knee, hip and shoulder. Computer navigation of joint replacement has been his long-term passion, being one of the founders of this technique in Australia over 15 years ago, and he now extends that into the use of robotics.

Dr. Kirsh has lectured on joint replacement throughout Asia for many years and has regular visits from Asian surgeons to observe joint replacement, computer navigation and robotics at St George Private and Bankstown Hospitals.

Education

    • 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

Medicine/Surgery Term

  • 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

Elective Term

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

Sport

    • 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

Current Appointments

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

Committees

  • Infection Control Committee St George Private Hospital

Case Reports

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

Conferences Attended

    • 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

Overseas Visits/Experience

    • 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

Dr. George Kirsh