Dr LAWRENCE KOHAN M.B, B.S (Hons) F.R.A.C.S., F.A. ORTH.A.

PERSONAL

Nationality: Australian.

Business Address: Level 2, 99 Spring Street, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022

Postal Address: P.O. Box 240, Bondi Junction, 1355

Education: 1964 - 1969 Sydney High School
Sydney, Australia.

1970 - 1975 Faculty of Medicine
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

QUALIFICATIONS AND AWARDS

January, 1976 Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery Second Class Honours University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
March, 1977: Primary Examination Royal Australian College of Surgeons March, 1977: The Gordon Taylor Prize for highest marks at the Primary Examination October, 1983 Part 2 Examination Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
July, 1987: Fellow - Australian Orthopaedic Association
May, 1997: International Affiliate Member, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

August, 1990 Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association Travelling Fellowship

Medical Board
Certification January, 1976 - NSW Medical Board No. 21726

APPOINTMENTS

1976 - 1979 Resident Medical Officer
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Sydney, Australia

1979 - 1980 Registrar in General Surgery
The St. George Hospital
Sydney, Australia

1980 - 1984 Australian Orthopaedic Association
Registrar Training Programme
Sydney, Australia

1984 Relieving Orthopaedic Surgeon
Royal South Sydney Hospital
Sydney, Australia

1984 Assistant to Dr. P. Maquet
Clinic St. Elizabeth
Liege, Belgium

1984 - 1985 Senior Registrar in Orthopaedics
Addenbrookes Hospital
Cambridge, United Kingdom

1985 Relieving Orthopaedic Surgeon
Lewisham Hospital
Sydney, Australia

1985 - 1987 Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic (Part-time)
University of New SouthWales/Prince of Wales Hospital
Sydney, Australia

1985 - 1993 Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon
Lewisham Institute of Sports Medicine
Sydney, Australia

1986 Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon
The Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals
Sydney, Australia

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

1987 - 1989 Convenor, Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical Meeting Programme

1988 Prince of Wales Hospital Representative to the Board of Studies of the
Australian Orthopaedic Association

1988 - 1991 Consultant Committee - Surf Life Saving Association Helicopter Rescue
Service

1988 Clinical Examiner (Undergraduates), University of New South Wales

1989 - 1990 Medical Advisory Committee, Netherleigh Private Hospital

1989 - 1991 Secretary - Department of Orthopaedic, Pacific Hospital

1989 Convenor - Australian Orthopaedic Association - 1989 Annual State Meeting,
Sydney

1990 - 1992 Warden - South Side Registrar Training Programme, Australian Orthopaedic
Association

1993 - 1995 Secretary - South Side Board of Studies, Australian Orthopaedic Association

1993 Secretary - Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association - Hip and Sports
Medicine Chapter - 1993 Annual Meeting

SOCIETIES

1985 Member - Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons

1987 Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association

1987 Member - Australian Medical Association

1988 Member - Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association

1990 Member - Australian Knee Society

1991 Member - Australian orthopaedic foot and ankle society

1993 Member - Australian Sports Medicine Federation

1993 Member - The Medico-Legal Society of NSW.

1985 Member - Australian Association of Surgeons

1985 Member - Australian Military Medicine Association

INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE CONVENOR

2001 Unicompartmental Knee Replacement Minimally Invasive Technique.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETIES AND MEETINGS

1981 The St. George Hospital Reunion Week Meeting - Registrar's Prize
for the "Research in Progress" session "Femoral Shaft Overgrowth after Fracture in
Children"

1983 The Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical Meeting - "Analysis of Failures of
Total Hip Replacements"

1987 Australian Orthopaedic Association - NSW Regional Branch Meeting -
"Upper Femoral Osteotomy in Osteoarthritis of the Hip"

1987 The Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical Meeting - "Biomechanics of the Knee"

1987 The Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical Meeting - "Techniques and Complications
Of Upper Femoral Osteotomy"

1987 Lewisham Institute of Sports Medicine Postgraduate Course -
"Review of Patello- Femoral Problems"

1987 Australian Orthopaedic Association - Continuing Education Meeting - Sydney
"Osteotomy For CDH, Perthes, SUFE - The Maquet Experience"
"Corrective Osteotomy for OA in Below 40's"

1987 Royal Australians College of General Practitioners - Sydney
"Arthroscopic Surgery of the Knee"

1988 The Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical Meeting - "Shoulder Arthroscopy"

1988 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - Sydney
"Common Painful Conditions of the Shoulder"

1988 Lewisham Institute of Sports Medicine - Postgraduate Course in Sports Medicine -
"Excessive Lateral patellar Pressure Syndrome"

1989 The Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical Meeting - "Update on Arthroscopy"

1990 The Knee Society Annual Meeting - "Osteochondritis Dissecans -
Histological Analysis of the Healing Lesion".

1989 Australian Orthopaedic Association - Annual General Meeting -
"Osteochondritis Dissecans - Histological Analysis of the Healing Lesion"

1991 The Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute - "Injury and Repair of the Sporting
Knee"

1990 Eastern Suburbs Medical Association - "Arthroscopic Knee Surgery"

1989 Eastern Japanese Society for Rheumatics and Joint Surgery - Tokyo
"Osteochondritis Dissecans" -
Histological Analysis of the Healing Lesion

1990 Australian Orthopaedic Association - Annual Scientific Meeting -
"Injuries To Orthopaedic Surgeons While Operating"

1990 Australian Orthopaedic Nurses Association - "Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction"

1992 RACGP - NSW Faculty Education Section - "Use of Steroids in Orthopaedic Problems"

1991 Australian Orthopaedic Association - NSW Regional Branch Meeting - "Upper Tibial
Osteotomy - The Choice of Procedure"

1991 Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association - Knee and ports Medicine Section - Seoul,
Korea - Biennial Meeting - Report on Internal Travelling Fellowship"

1992 Australian Knee Society - "Use of Tissue Expanders for Tibial Tuberosity Elevation" -
"Dome High Tibial Osteotomy - Modified Fixation"

1992 Eastern Suburbs Medical Association Annual Meeting -
"Arthroscopy" - "Knee Reconstruction" - "The Damaged ACL - "Joint Replacement"

1993 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - "Orthopaedic Update"

1993 University of NSW School of Physiological and Pharmacology - Sports Medicine
Courses - "Proprioception and Rehabilitation"

1992 DMS Eastern Area Health Service Clinical Update Conference -
"Knee Reconstruction"

1993 Australian Orthopaedic Nurses Association Inc. - "Bone Tumours"

1995 Australian Orthopaedic Association 54th Annual Scientific Meeting
"High Tibial Osteotomy - Techniques and Results"
"Modified Technique for fixation of Dome Upper Tibial Osteotomy"
"Tissue Expansion in Tibial Tuberosity Elevation"
"Povidone-Iodine sterilisation of Contaminated Bone-Tendon Autograft"
"Interthigh Circumference Variation" - Poster

1995 The University of New South Wales, Sports medicine Courses
"Review of Diagnosis/Examination and Management of Sports Injuries to the
Groin and Knee - Case Studies"

1995 Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting
"Application of the Ilizarov Frame for Malunion"

1995 Sports Medicine Australia Symposium
"Knee Reconstruction - current techniques and directions".

1995 Symposium on Trauma AOA Continuing Orthopaedic Education
"Correction of Post Traumatic Deformity - Ilizarov Technique"

1995 Poster Exhibit at the Combined Congress of the International Arthroscopy
Association and the International Society of the Knee Meeting "Sterilization of
Contaminated Bone-Tendon autograft Using 10% Poisoned Iodine".

1995 The Australian Army - Clinical Update Conference Programme
"Knee Reconstruction".

1995 Australian Military Medicine Association Conference - "Patello-femoral Pain"

1996 The University of New South Wales, Sports Medicine Courses
"Review of Diagnosis/Examination and Management of Sports Injuries to the
Groin and Knee - Case Studies"

1997 Orthopaedic Conference programme Port Maquarie
"Bone Tumours"

1997 Yu Y, Markovic B, Sonnabend D H, Howlett C R, Bruce W, Neil M, Kohan L, Walsh WR
"M-RNA expression of Cytokines from failed THA".
AOA Canberra October 12-17 1997.