With experience in both public and private sectors, he has held prestigious positions such as Director of Spinal Surgery and Head of the Orthopaedic Department at the Austin Hospital. He has also served as the former Chairman of the Victorian branch of the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He has extensive involvement in medicolegal examinations, including impairment assessments and expert witness work, and his research has been published and presented nationally and internationally.
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He provides medicolegal assessment services, and his interest covers matters of fitness for work, work relatedness of medical conditions and injury liability questions, and return to work and rehabilitation management interventions.
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She conducts assessments for the purposes of State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) including Workers Compensation, iCare and the Lifetime Care & Support Scheme, Department of Defence and for legal and insurance providers. She is trained in the Assessment of Permanent Impairment – Nervous System (SIRA- CTP).
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Kate confidently combines her clinical expertise in assessment, treatment and case management of children and adults with extensive analytical capabilities to accurately assess an individual’s needs in the areas of care, assistive technology, home modifications and services.
Kate has a strong track record in providing reports across a diverse range of matters in the areas of personal injury, medical negligence, motor accidents, and disability cases. She is known for her ability to deliver evidence-based, concise, and reliable reports tailored to each matter with a deep understanding of the functional impact of injury and disability. Her meticulous approach ensures that her evaluations and recommendations are both accurate and highly credible.
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Although he provides general orthopaedic care, Leo is Toowoomba’s only qualified orthopaedic spine surgeon and treats conditions affecting all regions of the spine. Dr Zeller completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Queensland, and subsequently went on to become a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association.
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She is a trained assessor in Permanent Impairment for Motor Accidents Authority, Workcover and Comcare. She has been a medico-legal assessor since 2003 and consults on Fitness for Duty assessments, Personal Injury and damages claims for selected legal cases, life insurance and defendant insurance company referrals.
Dr Thomas has both clinical competence and academic skills training in psychometric testing. She has interviewed, administered, interpreted and reported on a number of tests in a variety of contexts including occupational, clinical and forensic settings. Her expertise incorporates tests of aptitude, cognition, executive functioning and personality as well as work safety, malingering, emotional intelligence and skills-based assessments and includes NEO, MMPI, WAIS, WISC amongst many others.
Dr Thomas has over 30 years of clinical experience in public hospital and community facilities, private practice and occupational and academic arenas. She has provided assessment and management of children and adults with a wide range of psychiatric and psychological conditions, including psychotic disorders, personality disorders, adjustment disorders, PTSD, depressive disorders and anxiety. She has clinical experience in brain injury related to acquired and degenerative disorders and their cognitive and neuropsychological assessment.
Dr Thomas is currently based in Westmead, NSW. She is available to conduct MedicoLegal assessments in person as well as Telehealth via Kawaconn Video. To book a MedicoLegal appointment with Dr Thomas, please call (02) 8090 7611 or email admin@medicolegalassessmentsgroup.com.au. You can also click the link below to book online.
Dr Hedley Griffiths is a rheumatologist completing his medical degree in 1975 at the University of Melbourne. Completing residency in rheumatology in 1982 at the Geelong and Alice Spring Hospitals, he went on to consult at the now McKellar Centre, Geelong. Hedley was admitted to fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 1982.
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He specialises in Body systems, Lower Limb, Spine, Upper Limb, Specific expertise
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He is the head of the Balance Disorders & Ataxia Service at the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, founder of the Alfred Hospital Cerebellar Ataxia Clinic, honorary consultant Neurologist at St Vincent’s Hospital and Lecturer at Melbourne University. His research to date includes defining and deep phenotyping of vestibular and cerebellar ataxias, including CANVAS, idiopathic CABV and SCA36; a project to develop instrumented vestibular and cerebellar ataxia metrics.
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Dr. Sher completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales in 1991. Following this he completed a Masters Degree in Biomedical Engineering. His research thesis on Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction won the Evelyn Hamilton Memorial prize from the Australian Orthopaedic Association.
His Orthopaedic training was completed on the Sydney Orthopaedic Training Scheme. Dr. Sher then travelled overseas undertaking surgical subspecialty fellowships and is the former Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at Concord Repatriation Hospital.
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