Dr Rishi Narasimhan is an Australian trained Orthopaedic Surgeon. He has sub-specialist interest and training in shoulder surgery, limb salvage surgery and management of failed and infected joint replacements. Rishi is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and also a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association.
Rishi completed his Orthopaedic surgical training through the Newcastle NSW training network. Most of his surgical training was done through the John Hunter Hospital and its training networks. John Hunter hospital is the major tertiary referral centre for the Hunter New England Health area and is one of the busiest trauma centres in the country.
After completing his orthopaedic surgical training at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle NSW, he underwent two AOA accredited fellowships to further his knowledge with aspiration to follow his passion.
The first fellowship was the coveted Limb Reconstruction and Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship with Prof Kevin Tetsworth at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Here he learnt cutting edge techniques in limb salvage and trauma surgery along with management of failed and infected joint replacements. Rishi developed expertise in minimal invasive fractures fixation techniques along with management of bone defects, deformity correction and bone transport using both conventional ilizarov and lengthening over nail techniques.
He then followed this with sub-specialist training under the mentorship of Prof Kenneth Cutbush at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Brisbane Private Hospital in Brisbane. Here he learnt advanced techniques in shoulder surgeries which included rotator cuff surgeries, shoulder stabilization including arthroscopic Latarjet procedure, primary and revision shoulder replacements and tendon transfers for irreparable cuff defects and paralytic shoulders.
During this time he was also actively involved in research and presented techniques he had learnt at the Australian trauma society meeting. He was appointed as a clinical researcher at QUT in school of Physics and Mechanical Engineering. He has a book and several journal publications under his name. He is currently a senior lecturer at University of Newcastle.
Rishi has been instrumental in setting up the Hunter Valley Shoulder Clinic located within Hunter Valley Private Hospital. This facility has dedicated shoulder surgery facilities including cerebral perfusion monitoring, 4D cameras along with shoulder surgery trained scrub staff and and anaesthetists making it a state of the art facility for shoulder surgery and sports medicine in Newcastle.
Besides this Rishi also has interest in muscle preserving knee replacement and is one of the very few surgeons in the country who performs the “quadriceps sparing - no muscle cut technique” which enables earlier recovery and mobilisation.
Rishi proudly serves as serves as a part-time Australian Defence Force Orthopaedic Surgeon.
He is the current department head of Orthopaedic Surgery in a major regional NSW public Hospital (Manning Base Hospital). Rishi sees both private and public patients through his rooms and can be contacted at
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