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Introducing another of our visiting Specialists, Dr Raj Krishnan, Lower Limb and Sports Orthopaedic Surgeon. Dr Raj Krishnan is a Queensland trained Orthopaedic Surgeon who was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2018. Dr Krishnan currently works as a staff specialist at the Redcliffe General Hospital where he provided orthopaedic care to the local community. He is actively involved in teaching and training registrars in Orthopaedics and medical students. Dr Krishnan operates from Greenslopes Private and Sunnybank Private Hospitals. Dr Krishan specialises in total hip replacement, total & partial knee replacement, sports and meniscal injuries to the knee as well as traumatic injuries of the lower limb. He also has interest in treating common hand, foot and ankle orthopaedic conditions and orthopaedic traumas.

Did you know that we have visiting Specialists at Capalaba Medical Centre ? Introducing Dr Usama Zafar, Upper Limb and Sports Orthopaedic Surgeon. Dr Zafar consults at our rooms one Tuesday afternoon every month. Dr Zafar is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who completed his specialist training in Queensland. He moved to Australia in 2006, working in the UK at the University Hospital Birmingham for 2 years prior. He has worked in a variety of settings, from regional centres to major metropolitan hospitals. He has a broad range of knowledge and experience in Orthopaedics; upper limb and sports surgery are his areas of interest. During his training he gained experience in both trauma and elective operative techniques. Upon finishing his Orthopaedic training, he embarked on subspecialist training in upper limb and sports surgery. For this, he travelled to Sydney and completed a Hand Fellowship at the Sydney South West Hand Service. This gave him exposure to a breadth of trauma and elective hand and forearm surgery, including complicated reconstructive procedures. Following that, he returned to Brisbane to complete a sports surgery fellowship. This fellowship provided comprehensive exposure for the management of all aspects of sports, trauma and arthritic conditions of shoulder and knee. Dr Zafar operates from Holy Spirit Northside, Greenslopes Private and Sunnybank Private Hospitals and focuses on upper limb (hand, wrist, shoulder) and sports (shoulder and knee) orthopaedics as well as trauma cases.