PROFESSOR SYDNEY NADE
DSc MD MB BS BSc(Med) FRCS FRACS MRCP(UK) FAOrthA

SYDNEY NADE was educated at Fort Street Boys' High School in Sydney and attended The University of Sydney from where he graduated as a Bachelor of Science (Medical) in Biochemistry and from Medical School with First Class Honours. He served his internship and residency at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. He then travelled to England where he gained Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK). He also completed his clinical training as an orthopaedic and accident surgeon, working in London and Oxford over the next five years. That included a year of full-time research which resulted in the presentation of a thesis for which he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

Dr Nade returned to Sydney as a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at The University of Sydney and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor. He became the foundation Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at The University of Western Australia where he continued his clinical, teaching and research activities. As a result of his published work in research he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by that university. He then returned to Sydney to practise orthopaedic surgery and became a clinical professor at the Western Clinical School of The University of Sydney, a post he still holds while an emeritus consultant at Westmead Hospital. He has been responsible for the training of medical students for virtually all of his working life.

Sydney Nade has been an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons to award Fellowship of that college to prospective orthopaedic surgeons. His clinical and research studies have resulted in the publication of three books: Musculoskeletal Infections (1987), Infections in Bones and Joints (1994) and The Care of Neuropathic Limbs (1999). He has had an extensive interest in teaching and teaching methods as well as the problems faced by undergraduate and graduate medical students. This book has been developed to prepare medical students for the career path ahead of them.