Dr David Love Orthopaedic Surgeon Trauma Deformity Joint Replacement Melbourne VIC

My Practice

Employment and past experience

Current (Since 2011) – Orthopaedic consultant surgeon – The Royal Melbourne Hospital
2012 The Royal Children’s Hospital Orthopaedic Fellow - Limb deformity Fellowship under Mr Leo Donnan
2010-2011 University Hospital, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Arthroplasty fellow
2009- Commencement as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
2009-July 2010 The Royal Melbourne Hospital (trauma fellowship) -Fulltime Orthopaedic Surgeon – trauma
2005 - 2008 Australian Orthopaedic training programme Completion of training programme. Completion of training programme. During this time rotations through hospitals in Victoria and Tasmania were completed.
2006 – 2007 The University of Tasmania. Clinical Teacher.
2004 The Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Australia. Orthopaedic Registrar.
2002 – 2004 The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Resident Medical Officer.
2001 The Geelong Hospital. Geelong, Australia Resident Medical Officer (Intern)

Education

2012 – Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Limb reconstruction fellow to Assoc. Prof Leo Donnan
2011 Warringal Private Hospital Fellow to Mr John Bartlett
2011 Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association, Travelling Fellowship. Bangkok and Singapore.
2010 – 2011 London, Ontario, Canada, Arthroplasty Fellow
2009 Royal Melbourne hospital, Trauma Fellow
2005 – 2008 Australian orthopaedic association training programme
2002 Royal Australian College of Surgeons. Australia. Basic Surgical Training.
2003 The University of Melbourne (private). Melbourne, Australia. Postgraduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy
1994 – 2000 The University of Melbourne Medical School, MBBS.
1982 – 1993 Scotch College.

Professional Positions

AO Trauma – Faculty
Royal Australian College of Surgeons –
- Regional branch committee member
- ASSET teacher
Department of Human Services
- VICNISS Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System

Professional Courses

2004 AO/ASIF Course Sydney, Australia.
Principles of Operative Fracture Treatment
Successful completion of the course.
2004 Arthroscopic Surgery Skills Workshop
Northern Clinical Skills Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia.
2005 Zimmer Cadaver Trauma Workshop
Clinical Training and Education Centre, The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia
2009 Baltimore Limb deformity Correction course
3rd annual Hip Joint Preservation and resurfacing Arthroplasty Course – September 4th and 5th
19th Annual Baltimore Limb Deformity correction course – September 6th to 9th
Osteomyelitis and segmental Bone defects course – September 10th and 11th.
2010 Definitive Surgical Trauma Care
Epworth Hospital, Australia
2010 Wider scope of arthroscopy fellowship programme
Smith and Nephew sponsored course, Boston USA
2010 Birmingham Hip resurfacing, Masters course
London, Ontario, Canada
2011 Instructional hip arthroscopy course,
Belbird Private hospital, Mr John O’donnell
2012 AO Courses
Advances Course – New Zealand
Masters course – Switzerland

Publications

Wayne Hoskins, Roger Bingham, Sam Joseph, Danny Liew, David Love, Andrew Bucknill, Andrew Oppy and Xavier Griffin. Subtrochanteric fracture: The effect of cerclage wire on fracture reduction and outcome, Injury, 2015-10-01, Volume 46, Issue 10, Pages 1992-1995
Love D, Pritchard M, Burgess T, Van Der Meer G, Page R, Williams S. Audit of the Douglas Hocking Research Institute bone bank: ten years of non-irradiated bone graft. ANZ J Surg. 2009 Jan;79(1-2):55-61.
Douglas F Johnson, David TT Love, Bruce RT Love, D. Kevin Lester. Dermal Hypoesthesia after Total Knee Arthroplasty. Am J Orthop. 2000; Nov, 29(11):836-6.
D. Love, D. White and G. Kiroff. Thoracoscopic talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion. 2003, ANZ journal of Surgery 73: 19-22.

Presentations

Thoracoscopic talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion. Victorian annual and general scientific meeting, The Hughes room, Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Spring St, Melbourne. 21st June 2002. This paper was also presented by Mr. George Kiroff at the European Surgical Week, Lisbon, Portugal. June 2002.
Dermal Hypoaesthesia after Total knee arthroplasty. This paper was presented by an alternate author at the Australian Orthopedic association meeting, October 2002, Melbourne Australia.
Presented at the Australian Orthopeadic registrars Association Conference, Rottnest Island, October 2005.
Presented at the Victorian AOA regional branch meeting, March 19, 2010.
An Audit of the Douglas Hocking Research Institute Bone Bank. Tens Years of non-irradiated bone graft. Presented at the Victorian Regional Branch, Austrlalian Orthopaedic Association Clinical Meeting, Friday 13 August 2004. Presented by alternate author, Dr. Michael Pritchard.
Presented at the 6th Annual Scientific and Business Meeting of the ATBF, Sydney Australia. April 28, 2005.
Leg Length Audit- A radiological assessment of leg length difference after Total Hip Replacement. Presented at the Tasmanian Regional Branch meeting, Saturday the 15th of July, 2006
Radiological progression of the lateral compartment of the knee following medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. Presented at the Singapore Orthopadic association October 2011

Prizes and Awards

The Geoffrey Richards memorial prize for Physics, 1993. Scotch College.
The Sutherland Award, The Australian Institute of Physics, for outstanding achievement in Physics, 1993.
The Professors' prize in Orthopaedics, 2000. St. Vincents Hospital, Melbourne.
Runner-up Orthopaedics prize, The University of Melbourne, 2000.

Professional Associations