Hand and Wrist Specialist: Doctor David Graham

Hand surgery is a specialized area of surgery which has skill sets derived from Orthopaedic, General and Plastic surgery. Hand surgeons originate from each of these three surgical specialities. In some countries, hand surgery is a distinct surgical entity on its own right.

Dr. David Graham is an Australia-based orthopaedic specialist and surgeon specialising in wrist, hand and microsurgery for adults and children. The experience and training of Dr. Graham include reconstructive and acute surgery for wrist and hand. This includes fracture management, trauma, tendon surgery (also tendon transfers), free flap and microvascular surgery and nerve surgery. He also specializes in elective surgeries to manage conditions like trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, Dupuytren’s and de Quervains disease.

For a consultation, Dr. Graham operates out of the Gold Coast Centre for Bone and Joint Surgery (14 Sixth Ave Palm Beach QLD 4221), Queensland Children’s Hospital (Formerly Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital) and specialist role at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He is one of the best Gold Coast orthopaedic specialists and can be reached at drdavidgrahamhandsurgeon.com.au.

Dr. Graham’s educational qualifications and surgical training speak volumes about his skills. He graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) and proceeded to also complete a Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Medicine at UQ.

After this, he completed advanced training in Orthopaedic surgery in NSW. After Orthopaedic training, Dr Graham finished the Hand, Wrist and Microsurgery fellowship at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.

Dr. Graham has also a checkered international career. He finished advanced training as a visiting hand, wrist and microsurgery fellow at the Ganga hospital, in Coimbatore, India. He has also been trained at Irvine/Shriners Hospital Los Angeles, Children’s Hospital of Orange County and the University of California.

Dr Graham has also worked as an orthopaedic hand specialist in many countries like travelling to visit and work with hand surgery professors in Santander/Madrid, Spain and Niigata, Japan.

This eminent doctor worked as a consultant Hand Wrist and Microsurgeon at Fairfield Hospital –South Western Sydney Hand Centre and also at Sydney/ Sydney Eye Hospital – Sydney Hospital Hand Unit, before returning to Queensland.

Serving as among the leading Gold Coast orthopaedic specialists, Dr. Graham also has a strong interest in research and teaching. He holds academic titles with the Griffith University, Bond University and University of Queensland medical schools. He has many peer-reviewed, published research papers in hand and orthopaedic surgery and also presents papers at international, national and local conferences in hand surgery.

He often travels overseas on a regular basis on subject-based outreach trips, with the objective of to offer high-quality healthcare to maximum persons and help in the training of local surgeons and surgical trainees. These include destinations like Nepal, Cambodia and Fiji.

The field of paediatric hand surgery includes both congenital and traumatic surgery. It is an extremely divergent area. Some of the conditions treated include brachial plexus, limb deficiency syndromes, and also other syndromes impacting wrist and hand. Dr Graham consults and operates on children at John Flynn Private Hospital, the Gold Coast University Hospital and Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital (South Brisbane). One can book appointments through his website drdavidgrahamhandsurgeon.com.au.