Dr. Zoltan L Szomor
MD, PhD, FRACS, A/Fellow AOA
Orthopaedic Surgeon

Dr Zoltan Szomor completed his training with the Australian Orthopaedic Association Training Program. He is a Fellow of The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and completed a PhD Degree in shoulder rotator cuff pathology at the University of New South Wales. He also completed an 18 month fellowship at Kyoto University, Japan, focusing on arthroplasty and cartilage research, and a fellowship on Shoulder and Sports Surgery in Sydney. He is currently a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the UNSW and the Medical Director of the NSW Bone Bank.

Dr Szomor has published several papers in international journals and is currently involved in research projects related to bone and tissue banking. He also enjoys undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Dr Szomor's main clinical interest and experience extend to knee surgery and arthroplasty, shoulder and trauma surgery. Dr Szomor has affiliations with St George and Sutherland Hospitals, St George Private and Hurstville Community Private Hospitals.

Qualifications

• Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon
  Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
  Fellowship in Orthopaedic Surgery 2004, Sydney
  
  
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
  University of New South Wales, 2002, Sydney
  
  
• Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon
  Specialists Examination in Orthopaedics,
  Hungarian Orthopaedic Association, Board of Studies, 1990, Budapest
  
  
• Medical Doctor (MD)
  University Medical School of Pécs, Hungary
  "Summa cum laude" 21st September 1985

Current Positions (public, part time)

• Orthopaedic Surgeon, Staff Specialist
  In Charge of Orthopaedic Traum
  Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  St George and Sutherland Hospitals
  
  
• Conjoint Senior Lecturer
  University of New South Wales
  

• Medical Director of New South Wales Bone Bank
  South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health service

Private Practice

• Hurstville Knee Clinic
  Suite 406, 12-14 Ormonde Parade
  Hurstville 2220
  
  
• Specialist Consulting Rooms
  2/44 Montgomery Street
  Kogarah 2217
  

Private Hospital Affiliations

• St George Private Hospital
• Hurstville Community Private Hospital
• National Day Surgery Centre

Previous Appointments

• Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow Jan 2004 – March 2005
  Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  The St George Hospital Campus
  University of New South Wales
  
  
• Orthopaedic Registrar training positions
  St George Hospital July 2003 – Jan 2004
  Prince of Wales Hospital Jan 2003 – July 2003
  Liverpool Hospital July 2002 – Jan 2003
  Fairfield Hospital Jan 2002 –July 2002
  

• Postgraduate Research Student (Ph.D.) 1999 - 2002
  Orthopaedic Research Institute
  The St George Hospital Campus
  University of New South Wales
  
  
• Clinical Fellow Sports and Shoulder Surgery Service 1997 - 1999
  Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  The St George Hospital Campus, UNSW
  
  
• Assistant Professor/Lecturer 1990 – 1996
  Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
  University Medical School of Pécs, Hungary
  
  
• Orthopaedic Trainee 1985 – 1990
  Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  University Medical School of Pécs, Hungary
  
  
• 1985 - 1990: University Hospital, University Medical School of Pécs, Hungary
• 1990 - General Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
• 1989 - Paediatric and General Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopaedics Surg
• 1987 - 1988: Trauma training, Department of Traumatology
• 1996 - General surgery training, Department of Surgery
• 1985 - Internship
  

Overseas Fellowship

• Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 1993-94
  Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  Japanese Government Mombusho Scholarship 1993 - 1994
  

Professional Short Term Study Visits

• 1990: Japan
  Visiting Fellow of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
  Kyoto, Nagoya, Tokyo, Nagasaki
  
  
• 1992: USA
  Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital, Salt Lake City (Dr T. D. Rosenberg)
  Brigham and Women Hospital, Boston (Dr J. Schaffer)
  Hospital for Special Surgery, New York (Dr R. F. Warren)
  
  
• 1996: Australia
  Sportsmed SA, Adelaide (Dr G.Keene)
  North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre (Dr L. Pinczewski)
  
  
• 1998: Japan
  Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
  Invited presentation
  

Special Courses

• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) / Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) NSW, 2001
• Current Concepts in Trauma, Arthroplasty and Sports Injuries (S&N) QLD, 2004
• Pelvic and Acetabulum Fracture Management (AONA) Birmingham, Al, 2005
• AO Specialist Course – Foot and Ankle Sydney, 2006
• Concepts in Sports Injuries, Arthroplasty and Trauma, Fiji, 2006
• Advanced Orthopaedic Trauma Course, Flims, Switzerland, 2007
• Australasian Tissue Banking Forum, Brisbane, 2007
• European Association of Tissue Banks Forum, Budapest, 2007
• AO Masters Course in Trauma Surgery, Davos, Switzerland, 2007

Undergraduate Prizes and Awards

• Student of the Year Awards years 3, 4, 5, 6
• Hungarian Government Scholarships: years 1982 - 1985

Prizes and Awards

• "N. Zinner" Prize, Best Essay of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Association: 1991 and 1992, Budapest
• Finalist, Best Presentation, St George Medical Symposium, 1998 and 2001

Other achievement

• Silver Prize at the International Chemistry Olympiad, 1978, Poland
• Third Prize at the L.Eötwös National Physics Competition, 1980, Budapest

Memberships

• SICOT, Societe Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologie (since 1996)
• ISAKOS, International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
• Australian Orthopaedic Association - AOA Member (since 2001)
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Fellow (since 2004)
• Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons ASOS (since 2003)
• Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation ASMOF (since 2005)
• Australasian Orthopaedic Trauma Society
• Australian Institute of Medical Scientists (1999 - 2003)
• The British Association for Tissue Banking BATB (2005)
• ESSKA, European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (1993-1995)
• Hungarian Orthopaedic Association (1986 - 1997)

Research activities

• Total number of publications: 43
• Total number of presentations at National/International conferences: 53
  

Teaching

Undergraduate and post-graduate student education, formal and informan teaching of junior medical officers, un-accredited and AOA training registrars, allied health professionals

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