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Prof Ron Sekel Awarded OAM for Services to Health
14 / 06 / 2005
Portland Orthopaedics Limited is proud to announce that local Orthopaedic surgeon, Prof. Ron Sekel was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queens Birthday awards announced yesterday for his services to health.
Prof Sekel has practiced as an Orthopaedic surgeon at the St George Hospital and in the St George area for over 25 years and has actively been involved in assisting the local and greater communities through his directorships of such programs as the NSW Bone Bank, the Orthopaedic Skills laboratory, the Fijian Orthopaedic Training Programme, Orthopaedic Outreach to the South Pacific and Retrieval air services in NSW.
Prof Sekel is the founder of Portland Orthopaedics Limited, a local manufacturer of the revolutionary design DTC Margron Hip Replacement System that now employs more than 20 highly skilled engineers and related staff at it's Matraville research facility. The DTC system has been used by more than 50 surgeons across the USA including at such prestigious locations as Yale and UCLA as well as here in Australia.
Prof Sekel has also led a number of research and development programs with the University of New South Wales and the CSIRO, for such programs as testing Kangaroo tail tendon as a replacement for knee ligaments, testing ionimplanted carbon composite as a new material for prosthetic hip devices and the fully Australian development of the DTC Margron Hip Replacement.
Prof Sekel has practiced as an Orthopaedic surgeon at the St George Hospital and in the St George area for over 25 years and has actively been involved in assisting the local and greater communities through his directorships of such programs as the NSW Bone Bank, the Orthopaedic Skills laboratory, the Fijian Orthopaedic Training Programme, Orthopaedic Outreach to the South Pacific and Retrieval air services in NSW.
Prof Sekel is the founder of Portland Orthopaedics Limited, a local manufacturer of the revolutionary design DTC Margron Hip Replacement System that now employs more than 20 highly skilled engineers and related staff at it's Matraville research facility. The DTC system has been used by more than 50 surgeons across the USA including at such prestigious locations as Yale and UCLA as well as here in Australia.
Prof Sekel has also led a number of research and development programs with the University of New South Wales and the CSIRO, for such programs as testing Kangaroo tail tendon as a replacement for knee ligaments, testing ionimplanted carbon composite as a new material for prosthetic hip devices and the fully Australian development of the DTC Margron Hip Replacement.