DR Kelly Macgroarty

M.B.B.S. (University of Queensland)
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association

• Knee surgery
• Shoulder surgery
• Sports injuries
• Arthroscopic reconstruction
• Joint replacement

Kelly is a foundation member of Brisbane Knee and Sports Surgery – a group established to manage all aspects of sports surgery.

He was educated in Brisbane at St Joseph’s College Gregory Terrace and went on to complete his medical degree at University of Queensland in 1995. Subsequently, he entered advanced training in Orthopaedics and gained Fellowship to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2003.

After spending time as a staff surgeon at The Prince Charles Hopsital and Redcliffe General Hospital, he embarked on overseas post-graduate fellowship training in Shoulder and Knee surgery both in the United Kingdom and Canada.

The focus of his practice is:

Shoulder:

knee:

At present, he has private clinical privileges at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital and Northwest Private Hospital.

Kelly was responsible for establishing the first dedicated shoulder unit at The Prince Charles Hospital where he currently serves as a Visiting Medical Officer. He has both public and intermediate admitting rights.

In addition to his clinical practice, Kelly is active in Orthopaedic medico-legal reporting and is registered with the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. He is a certified independent medical examiner.

He is a full member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association. In addition, he is the secretary / treasurer of the Queensland Shoulder Society and a member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Australian Medical Association. He served on the Medical Advisory Committee at Holy Spirit Northside Hospital from 2007 until 2011. Since 2007 he has served as a member of the QComp medical assessment tribunal. Most recently in 2009, he was elected to the Queensland branch of the Australian Orthopaedic Association as a general committee member. Kelly also serves on the state training committee for the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He is currently the Queensland chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Kelly is a senior lecturer in Orthopaedics at the University of Queensland. He has been invited to be on faculty at several national shoulder meetings and has been involved in the design of a number of new instruments used in Total Shoulder Replacement surgery. He has also been invited to be the chairman of total shoulder replacement workshops designed to aid in training for developing shoulder surgeons. Kelly has published in the British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and has had work accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Surgery.

He is a member of the following organizations: