Doctor Details
Dr Greg Sterling MBBS, FRACS, FA Orth A
Located on St Andrews War Memorial Hospital Campus
Greg Sterling was born in Longreach in Central Queensland and educated at Marist College Ashgrove in Brisbane. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Queensland in 1995 and completed Advanced Training in Orthopaedic Surgery, obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (F.R.A.C.S) in 2005.
Greg went on to undertake an extensive period of further education. He has completed post graduate fellowship training in foot and ankle surgery under the supervision of Mr Ian Winson, President of the European Foot and Ankle Society, in Bristol, UK. He also undertook further fellowships at the University Hospital in Coventry, United Kingdom and at St Michaels Hospital in Toronto in Canada. These fellowships involved advanced training in all aspects of foot and ankle surgery, as well as knee arthroplasty and sports medicine. He has also attended many international courses and visited a range of surgeons in the USA, France, Switzerland and Greece.
The focus of his practice is:
- All aspects of foot and ankle surgery
- Correction of hallux valgus and hallux rigidus
- Correction of lesser toe abnormalities
- Ankle replacement
- Cartilage repair of the ankle
- Arthroscopic fusion and surgery of the ankle and foot
- Management of the diabetic foot
- Deformity correction
- Trauma Surgery (specialising in trauma of the foot and ankle)
- Foot and ankle sports medicine
Dr Sterling is a member of the AMA, Australian Orthopaedic Association, Royal Australian College of Surgeons and the Australian Food and Wine Society.
Dr Sterling commenced practice at St Andrew’s in 2007.