George Murrell Shoulders Sydney
Professor Murrell specialises in shoulder
surgery and has a special interest in arthroscopic methods to repair and
restore damaged ligaments and tendons. He is very happy to manage patients who
live locally, from other parts of Sydney, the country, interstate and from
overseas.
Professor George Murrell is an orthopaedic
surgeon and Director of the Orthopaedic Research Institute at St George
Hospital and Professor at the UNSW. He graduated from Adelaide University and
was the 1984 South Australian Rhodes Scholar and is a St Mark’s College
Distinguished Collegian.
At Oxford he gained blues in athletics,
completed a DPhil (PhD) and was awarded the Royal College of Surgeons Arris and
Gale medal. He spent a year in Cambridge teaching and rowing before completing
his orthopaedic training at Duke University, USA.
During a two year fellowship in sports
medicine, shoulder surgery and research at the Hospital for Special Surgery,
New York he gained a National Institutes of Health First Award, and an American
Orthopaedic Association North American Travelling Fellowship, and is now a
Distinguished International Alumnus.
He serves on the editorial boards of the
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, Shoulder and Elbow and Techniques in
Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. His team has won over 30 awards for their work and
his fellowship program attracts surgeons from around the world.