Keynote speakers



Invited speakers

Dr Bruce Foster AM

Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

2012 SA Senior Australian of the Year 

For the past 30 years, as a specialist in paediatric orthopaedics, Dr Bruce Foster has devoted his medical career to understanding the structure and function of bone growth. He and his team developed new treatment strategies for bone deformities and skeletal diseases in children that currently have no cure. His special interest in leg lengthening and spinal deformities has seen him practice all around the world. Currently Deputy Director of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, Bruce operates outreach clinics in the Northern Territory, Kangaroo Island and at the Flinders Medical Centre. Determined to find better, less painful ways to help straighten and lengthen the limbs of children affected by crippling growth problems, Bruce set up the Bone Growth Foundation in 1991 which funds research and treatment for a quarter of a million Australian children afflicted with bone impairments. Bruce has been instrumental in the trialling of an innovative internal limb lengthening procedure – the Fitbone – and is one of the few surgeons in the world able to fit this device.





Associate Professor Nicole Williams

Associate Professor Nicole Williams is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon seeking to optimise outcomes for children and young people suffering musculoskeletal conditions and trauma. 

She combines clinical work at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Port Augusta Hospital and in private practice with teaching and research roles within the Discipline of Orthopaedics and Trauma and the University of Adelaide. A/Prof Willliams coordinates the clinical research program at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.  Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide. She is the Director (Research and Education) for the South Australian Paediatric Major Trauma Service based at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. 
Her other passions include surgical leadership, surgical education and mentoring medical students and doctors-in-training. 

Dr Bernard Carney

Bernard Carney is a consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon working in the private and public sphere in South Australia. He is in his 20th year as a consultant and has a focus on paediatric plastic surgery and burns, skin cancer and hand surgery, cosmetic and body recontouring surgery and rural delivery of healthcare.

He is on the South Australian State Committee for RACS and is the current Chair. 

Associate Professor Peter Cundy

 Associate Professor Peter Cundy is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with 35 years of consultant experience at the WCH and was the Head of Orthopaedic Surgery for over 13 years. He is a past Examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He sits on the Editorial Boards of specialist Orthopaedic Journals and has special research interests in orthopaedic disorders in children, paediatric trauma and metal ion release from prostheses. Peter has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Peter was an active leader in trauma management and spine surgery, as well as being innovative in safe surgery and cost efficiencies in health management. He also has a long history of volunteer work in the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Fiji. Peter has extensive Board experience comprising MIGA (Medical Defence Insurer) for nine years including Chair of the Claims Committee. He currently sits on the Advisory Committee for Medical Devices for the Federal Government TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration). He is on the Board of ACHA (Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance) which manages three private hospitals in South Australia (Memorial, Ashford and Flinders Private). Peter completed an academic sabbatical at University College London / Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK for most of 2024 having retired from clinical practice in Australia. On weekends he competed in Historic Car Racing around England, using his 1934 MG which accompanied him from Australia. He returned to the UK in 2025 for more serious car racing.

dinner 


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