Dr Stuart MacKenzie. BMedSc (Hons), BMed, MTrauma, FRACS Ortho
Dr Stuart Mackenzie is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hip and knee surgery.
Dr MacKenzie has special interests in robotic assisted hip and knee replacement surgery and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS). He pioneered robotic assisted surgery in Newcastle performing the first robot assisted hip and knee replacements in Newcastle in 2016.
Dr MacKenzie specialises anterior approach total hip replacement surgery combined with robotic assistance. He use the MAKO robot for knee replacement surgery as well as specialising in arthroscopic knee surgery, including ACL reconstruction and meniscal surgery.
Dr Mackenzie has undertaken training in orthopaedic surgery in Australia, the USA, Canada and England. He undertook his undergraduate medical training at the University of Newcastle, graduating in 2002. Dr MacKenzie completed the Australian Orthopaedic Association training program in Newcastle and was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Ortho) in January 2011.
After completing his qualification as an orthopaedic surgeon Dr MacKenzie travelled overseas undertaking further fellowship training in hip and knee surgery. He spent a year doing a fellowship in adult hip and knee reconstruction through the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. In England he completed the prestigious Exeter Hip Fellowship at one of the leading hip replacement hospitals in the world. He has also spent 6 months of orthopaedic surgical training in the USA at the Shriners Hospital in Portland, Oregon.
Dr MacKenzie continues to attend many meetings and courses keeping up to date with the latest techniques and technologies including direct anterior hip surgery and robotic-assisted orthopaedic surgery.
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