Julianne Howell
PT, MS, CHT
Juli has had the good fortune to enjoy a 37 year career as a Physical Therapist and upper extremity specialist. She participates actively as a member of the American Association for Hand Surgery, the American Society of Hand Therapists, American Physical Therapy Association, and the Editorial Board for Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery.
Juli’s innovative clinical skills and contributions to professional literature are many and varied, ranging from ICAM/relative motion for extensor tendons, management of the burned hand, fractures, to clinical research. She has received numerous awards, authored a dozen publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and textbooks, and has shared her insights nationally and internationally.
Her experience as a private practice owner, designing and managing hand therapy services for a hospital corporation have also contributed to career satisfaction; top on the list however, remains daily learning from patients, mentoring others, and exchanging ideas with colleagues globally.
Associate Professor Greg Bain
MMS, FRACS, FA (Orthopaedics) A, PHD
Greg is a Hand and Upper Limb Surgeon at Modbury Public Hospital and The Royal Adelaide Hospital. Greg is an Associate Professor in Orthopaedics Trauma and Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Adelaide. Greg has presented and published papers nationally and internationally as well as publishing text book chapters. Greg is Deputy Editor of The Journal of Wrist Surgery, advisory board member of the International Journal of Shoulder Surgery, board member of the Journal of Techniques in Hand and Upper Limb Surgery, Convenor of the Australian AO Hand Courses, Editor board member of the World Journal of Orthopaedics (2010-2014), Member of American Society of the Hand and Member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Dr. Don Lalonde
Honors B.Sc. Life Sciences, MD, M.Sc, FRCSC
Dr. Don Lalonde is Chief of Department of Plastic Surgery at Saint John Regional Hospital and Attending Plastic Surgeon at (Saint John Regional Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Sussex Community Health Centre). Don is a member of the Comprehensive Breast Health Committee, at St. Joseph’s Hospital, runs the Department of Plastic Surgery, Resident Program at Dalhousie University, a member, surveyor and chairman of the Accreditation Committee of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is president for the American Association for Hand Surgery as well as receiving many highly acclaimed honours and awards. He has been on numerous editorial boards, visiting professorships and volunteer surgical missions. Don has published 83 articles in referred articles, 7 book chapters and has presented nationally and internationally over 318 times!
Mr David McCombe MBBS
MD FRACS Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Mr David McCombe graduated medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1990 and went on to specialise in plastic surgery.
In 2000 he commenced a Hand Fellowship with the Victorian Hand Surgery Associates. He followed this with a Microsurgery Fellowship with the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery at St Vincent’s Hospital from 2000 – 2001 and from 2002 – 2003 completed further training with a Fellowship in Microsurgery and Children’s Hand Surgery at St James University Hospital, in Leeds, UK
Mr McCombe then returned to Melbourne in 2003 to commence private practice, maintaining a special interest in adult and children’s hand surgery, peripheral nerve and brachial plexus surgery and reconstructive microsurgery.
He was awarded the Australian Hand Surgery Society Travelling Fellowship in 2012.
Today, Mr McCombe works as a Consultant Surgeon in the Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, as a Consultant Surgeon in the Plastic Surgery Unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and a visiting Hand Surgeon at St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Kew, Fitzroy and East Melbourne.
He is a current member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society, the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and is involved in medical education programmes (both undergraduate and postgraduate) with the University of Melbourne and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
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