North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre, NSW

MBBS FRACS

Dr Lam has particular expertise in sports related injuries of the foot and ankle including the use of arthroscopic surgery. He also has particular interest in ligament reconstruction, realignment surgery and cartilage transplantation.

He uses the latest techniques in minimally invasive surgery for the correction of bunions and certain forefoot deformities and arthritis of the big toe metatarsophalangeal joint.

Dr Lam graduated from The University of Sydney Medical School with Honours and completed his orthopaedic training in Sydney. This followed further training studying under the supervision of world-renowned orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeons, Dr Mark Myerson and Dr Lew Schon in Baltimore, MD, USA. Dr Myerson was the President of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society in 2004 and-2005 and Dr Schon was the President of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society in 2012 and 2013.

Dr Lam began practice in Sydney in 1999 and has been invited to present at national and international conferences. He has also published in prestigious peer-reviewed orthopaedic journals. He performs surgery at North Shore Private Hospital, Castlecrag Private Hospital and St George Private Hospital.

He was an invited speaker on minimally invasive bunion correction surgery at the combined IFFAS (International Federation of Foot and Ankle Societies) and AOFAS (American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society) meeting in Chicago in 2014. Dr Lam was also an invited international speaker at the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (BOFAS) Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton, England in 2014. Dr Stephen Bendall (President of the BOFAS) invited Dr Lam to present on current thinking on minimally invasive surgery: in hallux valgus correction, in correction of toe deformities and joint sparing surgery for treatment of first metatarsophalangeal joint arthritis.

Dr Lam attended the 4th International Foot and Ankle Minimally Invasive Surgery Congress in 2015 in Barcelona, Spain as an invited Member of the Faculty.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Australian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society and Australian Medical Association. Dr Lam is a member of GRECMIP (Groupe de Recherché et d’Enseignement en Chirurgie Mini-Invasive du Pied – Group of research and study in minimally invasive surgery of foot and ankle).