Each year, adidas Sports Medicine takes pleasure in hosting a number of visiting colleagues through the following programmes.

Arthroscopy Learning Centre

The Unisports Arthroscopy Learning Centre provides the opportunity for Orthopaedic Surgeons and Registrars from New Zealand to undertake experiential courses in arthroscopic surgery of the knee, shoulder, elbow and ankle. Courses can be tailored to suit the requirements of the visiting surgeon, from one-day procedure specific sessions through to multiple aspects of arthroscopic surgery.

Choose from a range of arthroscopic procedures:

• Arthroscopy of the Knee
• Arthroscopy of the Shoulder
• Arthroscopy of the Elbow
• Arthroscopy of the Ankle
• Arthroscopy assisted ACL reconstruction

- Patella tendon graft

- Hamstring graft
• Arthroscopic mensical repair
• Arthroscopic subacromial decompression
• Arthroscopic SLAP repair
• Clinic Sessions
  
  - pre-operative
  - post-operative assessment

Although the Learning Centre is based at the adidas Sports Medicine Facility in Merton Road, St Johns, Auckland, all surgery is performed at the Auckland Surgical Centre by the Orthopaedic Surgeons, Barry Tietjens, Bruce Twaddle, Stewart Walsh and Ross Davidson.

This educational initiative is supported by Smith+Nephew, however, visits to the Learning Centre can be scheduled by contacting the Research & Education Coordinator to ensure a clinical and operative programme that is of maximum benefit for the visiting surgeon.
Recent surgeons to visit the centre include:

Orthopaedic Travelling Fellowship

Since 1988, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association (APOA), formerly known as the Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association (WPOA), and the European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), have fostered scientific and cultural exchanges among sports medicine orthopaedic surgeons in North America, the Pacific Rim and Europe, through the travelling fellowship programme.

Each year, three newly qualified and promising, young orthopaedic sports medicine specialists are selected to visit a number of the leading sports medicine centers from the exchange area, for a three week period. A "Godparent", who is a well-known senior orthopaedic sports medicine specialist from the visiting region, accompanies the group.
A reciprocal arrangement is available for an Orthopaedic Surgeon from NZ to be selected as a Travelling Fellow to visit North America, the Pacific Rim or Europe, approximately every three years.

Travelling Fellows who have come to NZ
* denotes tour Godparent

2005
*Dr Mark Miller - University of Virginia
Dr Christina Allen - University of California, San Francisco
Dr Spero Karas - University of North Carolina
Dr Winston Warme - William Beaumont Army Medical Centre, El Paso, Texas

1999
*Dr Freddie Fu - University of Pittsburgh
Dr Frederick Azar - University of Tennessee
Dr Christian Guier - Teton Orthopedics, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Dr Daniel Wascher - University of New Mexico

NZ recipients in the Travelling Fellowship Exchange

2004: Mr Andrew Vincent, Christchurch - to USA
1998: Mr Bruce Twaddle, Auckland - to USA
1996: Mr Stewart Walsh, Auckland - to Europe

Visiting Surgeons

Recently Dr Lee Woo Guan and Dr Lim Heng Hing have visited the adidas Sports Medicine Centre, to observe arthroscopical surgical procedures and patient clinics with our Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Dr Lee Woo Guan and Dr Lim Heng Hing are respected surgeons from Malaysia who are specialists in their fields of upper limb surgery and spinal surgery, respectively.
Smith and Nephew assisted this visit, especially through the help of Mr Low Kok Leong, Malaysia, and Mr John McLarin, New Zealand.

Other recent visitors to adidas Sports Medicine Centre, who have been hosted by our Orthopaedic Consultants and spending time with them in both the clinical and surgical environments, have been surgeon Dr Elvine Servien from the Livet Centre, Lyon, France; and Dr Federico Bado, Italian Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina .

Dr Elvine Servien Dr Federico Bado