Mark Ross Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Queensland

Current President of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia and Australian Hand Surgery President-Elect, Mark Ross is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Queensland. He is the Director of the Upper Limb Fellowship Programme at Princess Alexandra Hospital, and a founder and co-director of the Brisbane Hand and Upper Limb Research Institute. He has a special interest in complex reconstructive and revision surgery, and is actively involved in the development of new surgical techniques and new joint replacement technologies, and advocating for specialist staff in the public hospital. Professor Ross graduated from The University of Queensland with MBBS in 1987. He completed his FRACS in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1996 and undertook a fellowship in Hand and Upper Limb Surgery at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1997, before travelling to the USA to undertake a 12-month Fellowship at the Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery in Louisville, Kentucky.