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    Professor Richard Carey Smith

    Richard is a specialist orthopaedic surgeon who has specific expertise in orthopaedic oncology (primary and secondary bone and soft tissue tumours), hip surgery (hip primary and revision replacement and sports knee).

    Richard was awarded a scholarship at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School London and completed degrees in exercise physiology, medicine and surgery with prizes in Anatomy, physiology, endocrinology, histology, pathology and gynaecology.

    UK fellowship training in orthopaedics was on the Cambridge rotation and whilst in Norwich won the Carlile medal for research looking at accelerated rehabilitation in knee replacements.

    Subspecialty training in complex limb reconstruction and Orthopaedic Oncology was undertaken in Perth with Professor David Wood, and Vancouver, Canada on the highly competitive University of British Columbia arthroplasty fellowship, as well as being awarded an AO Fellowship in Trauma at the Rocky Mountain Trauma Centre in Denver Colorado and in Sports Knee Surgery with Mr Tim Spalding at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwick.

    These unique experiences within academic centres across the globe ensures a comprehensive range of minimally invasive joint preserving surgery through to complex limb salvage with a multidisciplinary field.

    Professor Carey Smith is an experienced orthopaedic surgeon with peer-reviewed publications, has a broad range of orthopaedics and basic science and continues to present at national and international meetings and is active in the University Teaching Hospital.

    Richard is the clinical lead for the State sarcoma service.

    Richard’s Fellowships

    • University of British Columbia, Oncology and adult reconstruction: one year
    • Rocky Mountain trauma centre, Trauma: three months.
    • University Coventry and Warwick, Sports knee: six months.
    • University of WA and Perth Bone and Tissue Bank (PlusLife), Oncology and adult reconstruction: one year.

    Where Richard works

    Richard operates publicly in:

    • Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
    • Hollywood Private Hospital

    Perth Orthopaedic & sports medicine centre, 31 Outram Street, West Perth  WA 6005 Where Richard works

    Liz Carey Smith, Practice Manager

    Liz is the Practice manager and has a diploma in Medical Practice Management. Liz originally worked in the UK as a Senior Operating Department Practitioner for seven years and moved to Australia in 2006 where she then worked in the operating theatres at Hollywood Private Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

    Wendy Wunsch, Receptionist

    Wendy has been working with Richard since January 2014 after moving to Western Australia from New South Wales. Wendy completed her General Nursing training in Melbourne and then worked in the operating theatres in Albury. Wendy has spent four years as a medical representative in radiology and cardiology and has also completed her Bachelors in Business Management.

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