Mr Jeff Ecker is an expert hand and wrist surgeon with over 35 years experience. Mr Ecker founded both the Wrist + Hand Institute and the Hand + Upper Limb Centre (HULC) as centres of excellence in hand, wrist and upper limb conditions utilising a multidisciplinary team approach combining a variety of health professionals including specialist surgeons, general practitioners, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and other allied health professionals.  

Mr Ecker completed his orthopaedic fellowship in Australia and trained in microvascular and arthroscopic surgery at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, Duke University in North Carolina, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the Immediate Past President of the Australian Hand Surgery Society, the President Elect of the Asia Pacific Wrist Association and the Past President of the West Australian Hand Surgery Society. Mr Ecker is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Curtin University and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at The University of Western Australia.

AOA 2nd Vice President

Hip and Knee Surgeon, Tasmania

Bill Walter is the Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatic Surgery at the University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital and the Mater Hospital. Specialising in joint replacement surgery for 20 years,  Professor Walter is a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and President of Arthroplasty Society of Australia.

Bill supervises PhD students, Masters students and medical students.  He served as Chairman of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mater Hospital from 2011 to 2014. Professor Walter hosted the International Society for Orthopaedic Centres meeting in Sydney in 2017 and was President of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty in 2012.  In May 2022 Professor Walter was appointed the President of the Arthroplasty Society of Australia.

Professor Walter’s research is published in peer reviewed international arthroplasty journals and was awarded the 2021 Pier Giorgio Marchetti, MD, Award for Distinguished International Alumnus from The Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City.