Dr Michael Walsh

Dr Walsh has been in orthopaedic practice in Western Sydney for 35 years. Dr Michael Walsh completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of New South Wales in 1976. After several years of accredited General Surgical Training which included six months training under Dr Victor Chang at the cardiac surgery unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, he progressed to another 2 years accredited neurosurgery, chest surgery and abdominal surgery at Sydney Hospital. With this extensive and broad-based background in general surgical training, he commenced orthopaedic training which was undertaken under the Australian Orthopaedic Association’s Sydney based programme and was completed in 1985.

After spending most of 1986 in Fellowships in Graz, Austria and Milano, Italy specialising in surgery to the hip and the knee, Dr Walsh commenced orthopaedic practice in Western Sydney where he currently practices. He has held appointments at Mt Druitt Hospital, Nepean Hospital, Hawkesbury Hospital and 3 Combat Support Hospital at the Richmond RAAF Base. To continue his educational development, Dr Walsh has done fellowships in Murau, Austria (neonatal hip ultrasound), Lisbon, Portugal (hip revision surgery), Maastrict, Holland (primary hip surgery), St. Louis Missouri (knee surgery), Mayo Clinic, Minnesota USA (knee and elbow surgery), Exeter, UK (hip surgery).

Dr Walsh is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association.