North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre, NSW

MBBS FRACS (Orth)

Dr Lyons is a Fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeon with special interest in disorders of the hip and knee. He performs arthroscopic, reconstructive and replacement surgery of the hip and knee with specific focus on revision arthroplasty for failed and infected joint replacements.

He graduated from Medicine with honours in Exercise Physiology in 2000 at The University of New South Wales. Dr Lyons completed his basic surgical training at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney and subsequently was selected for the Australian Orthopaedic Association Advanced Training Scheme in 2006. This led him to the Mater Hospital and the North Sydney Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Practice where his talent for surgery and excellent rapport with patients became evident.

Dr Lyons completed his training in 2009, after which he returned to undertake a Fellowship at NSOSMC with Dr Mervyn Cross in arthroscopic and arthroplasty surgery of the knee and then with Dr Michael O’Sullivan in hip arthroplasty. Most recently, he has returned from world-class University Hospital at the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada where he undertook subspecialty training in primary and revision arthroplasty of the hip and knee.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Australian Orthopaedic Association. Dr Lyons has extensively published research on the performance of knee and hip arthroplasty, both primary and revision surgery. Specifically, his interests pertain to the improvement of safe, efficacious and effective surgery of the lower limb.