Orthopaedic knee Surgeon of Melbourne

Dr David Love
MBBS PGDipSurgAnat FRACS
Orthopaedic Surgeon

David Love is a specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon in Melbourne with expertise in trauma and deformity correction, hip and knee arthroplasty and pathology. He attended The University of Melbourne for his medical training and completed his basic surgical training and advanced surgical training through the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and the Australian Orthopaedics Association.
Following completion of specialist orthopaedic training he has worked as a full time trauma surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and after 18months travelled overseas to gain expertise in hip and knee arthroplasty with Professor Robert Bourne, a world expert in this specialised area of orthopaedics.

Dr David Love

Dr David Love has also completed fellowships with Mr John Bartlett, world famous knee surgeon and also with Professor Leo Donnan at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne which included extensive training in using external frames to correct deformity and utilising the ilizarov deformity correction technique.

Employment and past experience

• 2012 The Royal Children’s Hospital Orthopaedic Fellow - Limb deformity Fellowship under Mr Leo Donnan
• 2011 current. The Royal Melbourne Hospital Orthopaedic Surgeon
• 2010-2011 University Hospital, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Arthroplasty fellow
• 2009-July 2010 The Royal Melbourne Hospital (trauma fellowship) -Fulltime Orthopaedic Surgeon – trauma
• 2005 - 2008 Australian Orthopaedic training programme Completion of training programme. Completion of training programme. During this time rotations through hospitals in Victoria and Tasmania were completed.
• 2006 – 2007 The University of Tasmania. Clinical Teacher.
• 2004 The Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Australia. Orthopaedic Registrar.
• 2002 – 2004 The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Resident Medical Officer.
• 2001 The Geelong Hospital. Geelong, Australia Resident Medical Officer (Intern)

Education

• 1982 – 1993 Scotch College.
• 1994 – 2000 The University of Melbourne Medical School, MBBS.
• 2003 The University of Melbourne (private). Melbourne, Australia. Postgraduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy
• 2002 Royal Australian College of Surgeons. Australia. Basic Surgical Training.
• 2005 – 2008 Australian orthopaedic association training programme
• 2009 Royal Melbourne hospital, Trauma Fellow
• 2010 – 2011 London, Ontario, Canada, Arthroplasty Fellow
• 2011 Warringal Private Hospital Fellow to Mr john Bartlett
• 2012 – Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Limb reconstruction fellow

Professional Courses

• 2004 AO/ASIF Course Sydney, Australia.
  Principles of Operative Fracture TreatmentSuccessful completion of the course.
• 2004 Arthroscopic Surgery Skills Workshop 
  Northern Clinical Skills Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia.
• 2005 Zimmer Cadaver Trauma Workshop
  Clinical Training and Education Centre, The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia
• 2009 Baltimore
  3rd annual Hip Joint Preservation and resurfacing Arthroplasty Course – September 4th and 5th
  19th Annual Baltimore Limb Deformity correction course – September 6th to 9th
  Osteomyelitis and segmental Bone defects course – September 10th and 11th.
• 2010 Definitive Surgical Trauma Care
  Epworth Hospital, Australia
• 2010 Wider scope of arthroscopy fellowship programme
  Smith and Nephew sponsored course, Boston USA
• 2010 Birmingham Hip resurfacing, Masters course
  London, Ontario, Canada
• 2011 Instructional hip arthroscopy course,
  Belbird Private hospital, Mr John O’donnell
• 2011 Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association, Travelling Fellowship, 2 weeks duration
  Visit to Bangkok and Singapore – finishing with the 2011 Singapore Orthopaedic association meeting.

Publications

• Love D, Pritchard M, Burgess T, Van Der Meer G, Page R, Williams S. Audit of the Douglas Hocking Research Institute bone bank: ten years of non-irradiated bone graft. ANZ J Surg. 2009 Jan;79(1-2):55-61.
• Douglas F Johnson, David TT Love, Bruce RT Love, D. Kevin Lester. Dermal Hypoesthesia after Total Knee Arthroplasty. Am J Orthop. 2000; Nov, 29(11):836-6.
• D. Love, D. White and G. Kiroff. Thoracoscopic talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion. 2003, ANZ journal of Surgery 73: 19-22.

Presentations

• Thoracoscopic talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion. Victorian annual and general scientific meeting, The Hughes room, Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Spring St, Melbourne. 21st June 2002. This paper was also presented by Mr. George Kiroff at the European Surgical Week, Lisbon, Portugal. June 2002.
• Dermal Hypoaesthesia after Total knee arthroplasty. This paper was presented by an alternate author at the Australian Orthopedic association meeting, October 2002, Melbourne Australia.
  Presented at the Australian Orthopeadic registrars Association Conference, Rottnest Island, October 2005.
  Presented at the Victorian AOA regional branch meeting, March 19, 2010.
• An Audit of the Douglas Hocking Research Institute Bone Bank. Tens Years of non-irradiated bone graft. Presented at the Victorian Regional Branch, Austrlalian Orthopaedic Association Clinical Meeting, Friday 13 August 2004. Presented by alternate author, Dr. Michael Pritchard.
  Presented at the 6th Annual Scientific and Business Meeting of the ATBF, Sydney Australia. April 28, 2005.
• Leg Length Audit- A radiological assessment of leg length difference after Total Hip Replacement. Presented at the Tasmanian Regional Branch meeting, Saturday the 15th of July, 2006
• Radiological progression of the lateral compartment of the knee following medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. Presented at the Singapore Orthopadic association October 2011

Prizes and Awards

• The Geoffrey Richards memorial prize for Physics, 1993. Scotch College.
• The Sutherland Award, The Australian Institute of Physics, for outstanding achievement in Physics, 1993.
• The Professors' prize in Orthopaedics, 2000. St. Vincents Hospital, Melbourne.
• Runner-up Orthopaedics prize, The University of Melbourne, 2000.
Professional Associations
• General registration, Medical board of Australia.
• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association
• AOTrauma association

Professional Positions

• Scientific convener, 2007 Australia Orthopaedic registrars association meeting, Lorne, Victoria

Consulting

• Epworth Freemasons, East Melbourne.
• St Vincents, Kew (formally Vimmy House).
• Warringal Private Hospital, Heidelberg.
• North Park Private Hospital, Bundoora.
• Public appointment – The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville.

For more information follow the link below:

http://www.melbournehipandkneesurgeon.com.au