About Us

Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Stadler Kirsten

Training

MBChB 1987 Pretoria
MMed (Orthop) 1999 Stellenbosch

Membership

South African Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society

South African Orthopaedic Association

Appointments:

Past President of South African Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society January 2020 - December 2021

President of the South African Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society. January 2018 - December 2019

Co-organizer of monthly Shoulder and Elbow interest group meetings for Peninsula and Boland since 2010

Chairman of the Western Cape branch of South African Orthopaedic Association. Jan 2008 – March 2010

Secretary of the Western Cape branch of South African Orthopaedic Association. Jan 2004 – Nov 2005

Presentations:

• The treatment of De Quervain's tenosynovitis. Paper presented at the South African Orthopaedic Association Congress 1998
• Training session of theatre nursing staff on arthroscopic shoulder surgery, December 2002
• The approach to the diagnosis of shoulder pain, September 2002
• Shoulder biomechanics and rotator cuff conditions, February 2003
• X-ray examination of the shoulder, August 2003
• Normal anatomy, arthroscopic acromioplasty and acromioclavicular joint excision, January 2003
• Shoulder pain in the manual laborer 2005
• Glenohumeral instability 2007
• Feedback session at University of Stellenbosch Department of Orthopaedic Surgery on 10th International congress of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery held in Salvador, Brazil 2007
• Elbow Problems in the athlete 2011
• Extra-articular cortisone treatment
• Olecranon bursitis
• Shoulder arthroscopy basic setup
• Acromioplasty and rotator cuff repair
• Anterior soft tissue instability repair

Experience

• Orthopaedic and arthroscopic surgery since 1990
• Orthopaedic private practice since 1999
• Special interest in upper limb conditons and injuries since 1994
• Developed upper limb surgery service since 2000
• In regular consultation with experienced coleagues locally and internationally

Continued Professional development past 2 years

• Regularly attending and contributing to academic meetings is part of service improvement and following latest developements

• 2020 Mayo Clinic Teach the Teachers Elbow Course - Forging the Future
• 2020 SASSH Wrist Refresher Course - Cape Town
• 2019 International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery - Beunos Aires
• 2019 Combined 65th South African Orthopaedic Congress - Durban
• 2019 South African Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Meeting - Somerset West