About Me
Dr Simon Hutabarat, Central Coast Bone and Joint
Dr Simon Hutabarat is a Senior Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon who has been providing orthopaedic surgical services on the Central Coast and the North-West NSW since 2004.
He consults from Woy Woy, Lake Munmorah, Tuggerah and Tamworth and operates exclusively in private practice.
Dr Hutabarat’s hospital appointments:
- Brisbane Waters Private Hospital
- Gosford Private Hospital
- Tuggerah Lakes Private Hospital
Biography
Dr Hutabarat completed his medical training at the University of New South Wales in 1992 with honours. He combined his medical degree with a science degree during which time he demonstrated a flair for physics. He then went on to complete orthopaedic surgery training in Sydney in 2004.
At the end of his orthopaedic surgical training, he then embarked on a sub-specialised year-long surgical training fellowship in Richmond, Virginia (USA) and Bristol and Bath in the UK, as well as completing multiple sub-specialised training appointments in orthopaedic surgery and microsurgery at leading institutions around the globe, which offer experience unavailable in Australia.
He has had several publications in international orthopaedic journals and has presented regularly at local, national and international orthopaedic meetings. He currently works in advisory capacity for a number of orthopaedic companies and has given lectures and talks in this capacity to international groups of surgeons both in Australia and in Europe and Asia. He is heavily involved in Orthopaedic training in New South Wales as well as having provided inaugural support to Orthopaedic training scheme development in Indonesia
Dr Hutabarat has a keen interest in using cutting edge technology to further the quality of his work. This includes laser guided and GPS navigated surgery of the shoulder hip and knee.
Experience in Numbers
Dr Hutabarat has renowned skills for treating conditions affecting the hand, wrist, shoulder, hip and knee. Over his surgical career, he has developed his expertise by operating on an immensely high volume of patients. High volume exposes the surgeon to a range of both common and rare clinical problems.
Shoulder operations performed
5,500+
Hip operations performed
2,100+
Knee operations performed
6,250+
Qualifications
Surgical Registration
Australia
Surgical Registration
United Kingdom
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
2003
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (Honours) (MBBS)
1992
Bachelor of Science (BSc), UNSW
1989
Fellowship Training & Education
American Assoc. Hand Surgeons Annual Meeting, January 12-15, Puerto Rico, Jan 2005
Managing Complicated Hand and Wrist Problems, AAOS, Rosemont, IL, USA, December 3-5, 2004
Microsurgery Training, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA, Nov 2004
Fellowship in Hands and Arthroplasty (Upper & Lower limb) with Bowers, Glowaki & McDermott (Hand Surgeons) and Worland (Arthroplasty), Richmond, VA, USA, Aug 2004-Jan 2005
FRACS Part 2, Melbourne, May 2003
AOA COE (Knee), Darwin, NT, Jul 2002
AOA COE (Orthopaedic Business), Melbourne, VIC, 2001
Paediatric Orthopaedic Course, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, 2000
AOA COE, Canberra, ACT, 1999
Emergency Management of Surgical Trauma, RNSH, Sydney, 1995
FRACS Part 1, Sydney, 1995
AO Basic Internal Fixation Course (Davos, Switzerland), 1995
Combined Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (Honours) UNSW, 1992
Elective in Orthopaedic Surgery, Queen Mary’s University Hospital, London, UK, 1991
Teaching, Presentations & Publications
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Teaching
2006 Common Hand Disorders. Bare Bones Meeting. Woy Woy, NSW
2005 Clinical Preceptor, University of Alabama, USA
1992 – 2006 Tutorials & Lectures to VMOs, Junior Medical Staff & Students
1996Instructional Course in Shoulder Stabilisation Surgery
(Zimmer), July 1996, Prince of Wales Hospital.1996 Biomechanics of the Knee,
W. Walsh, S. Hutabarat, D. Wallace, W. Bruce & D. Sonnabend.
Sports Medicine Medical Education Video, UNSW.2006 Teaching with the AOA WOC for the Balinese Training
Programmeinterests:
active in supporting the baliese training programServed in HOPE Volunteer Corps, after the earthquake in Nias, Indonesia, 2005
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Presentations
2006 Survivorship of 195 fixed bearing UKRs during the second decade.
March, 2006 Hutabarat, SR., Newman, JH. 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons in Chicargo, LA2002 Will We Continue the Jig Jiggle? Hutabarat, SR., Cumberland, W
AORA Conference, Melbourne2002 Soft Tissue Tumours of the Hand, Hutabarat, SR
St George Hospital Hand Meeting, Sydney2001 Pelvic Trauma, Hutabarat, SR. & Harris, I., Bones on the Beach Conference, Wollongong
1998 A New Surgical Operating Gown, Sherry, E., Hutabarat, S.R., Gorman, J.,
Coote, P. and Dienmendijian, G,
WPOA Japan 4/11/981998 Serum Metal Studies in Metal on Metal Hip Arthroplasty,
Walter, L., Hutabarat, S.R., and Walsh, W.R., Combined
Meeting, Christchurch, New Zealand.1997 A New Surgical Operating Gown, Sherry, E., Hutabarat, S.R.,
Gorman, J., Coote, P. and Dienmendijian, G,
Federal AOA Meeting, Canberra, October 1997.1997 A New Surgical Operating Gown, Sherry, E., Hutabarat, S.R., Gorman, J., Coote, P. and Dienmendijian, G,
The Hills Private Hospital 12th Annual Orthopaedic Conference,
16th August, 1997.1997 Coronal Tibial Tubercle Osteotomy in the Difficult TKA Bruce, W., Rooney, J., Hutabarat, S., Atkinson, M., Goldberg, J.,
and Walsh, W.R., NSW AOA State Meeting Nepean, April 1997.1997 Arthrodesis in the Neuropathic Foot, Hansen, S.T., Hutabarat, S.,
Rooney, J., and Grujic, L., NSW AOA State Meeting Nepean,
April 1997.1997 Biomechanical Performance of Open and Arthroscopic Bankart Repairs: A Cadaver Study, Wallace, D.A., Edshage, B.,
Mohammed, K.D., Hutabarat, S.R., Sonnabend, D.H., Walsh, W.R., 43rd Annual Meeting Orthopaedic Research Society, Feb 9-13, 1997, San Francisco, CA, USA.1996 Metal-on-Metal Hip Arthroplasty. Will There Be Black Sludge? Walter, L., Hutabarat, S.R. & Walsh, W.R., Mater Miscorderiale Meeting, Sydney, Dec 5, 1996.
1996 A Comparison Of Metal Ions Released By Metal-on-Metal Hip Arthroplasty, Walter, L., Hutabarat, S.R & Walsh, W.R, N.S.W. State
A.O.A. Meeting, RPAH, Sydney, Nov 1, 1996.1996 Serum Metal Studies in Metal-on-Metal Hip Arthroplasty, Walter, L., Hutabarat, S.R., Walsh, W.R., Stryker-Osteonics Orthopaedic Scientific Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand,
19-24/8/96.1996 Early Results of Serum Studies of Metal on Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty, Walter, L., Hutabarat, S.R. & Walsh, W.R. Arthroplasty
Meeting, September 1996, Daydream Island, Queensland.1994 Scapulothoracic Dissociation,
Meeting of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons,
Melbourne 26/3/94. -
Publications
2002 Elbow Trauma, Kuliseviscz, G., Rooney, J & Hutabarat, S., In: Trauma, Ed. Sherry, E., Triu, L. & Templeton, J. Oxford University Press
1998 Basic Orthopaedic Science, Gorman, J., Rooney, J & Hutabarat, S., Chapter 4, Oxford Handbook of Sports Medicine, Ed. Sherry, E., Oxford University Press
JOURNALS
2002 Surgical Reconstruction of the Neuropathic Foot, Rooney, J., Hutabarat, S.R., Grujic, L. and Hansen, S.T., The Foot, (12) 213-223
2001 Metal-on-Metal Hip Arthroplasty. Walter, L., Hutabarat, S.R. & Walsh, W.R., JBJS (comment)
1999 Scintigraphy in severe tenosynovitis of the tibialis posterior tendon, Kannangara, S., Bruce, W., Hutabarat, S.R., Magee, M., & Van der Waal, H., Journal of Nuclear Medicine
1998 Coronal Tibial Tubercle Osteotomy in the Difficult TKA, Bruce, W., Rooney, J., Hutabarat, S.R., Atkinson, M., Goldberg, J. and Walsh, W.R., J of Orthopaedic Surgery.
1998 A New Surgical Operating Gown, Sherry, E., Hutabarat, S.R., Gorman, J., Coote, P. and Dienmendijian, G. J of Orthopaedic Surgery
INTERNET
1997 Management of the Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty, Coffey, S and Hutabarat, S., Worldortho,
www.worldortho.com1997 Patellofemoral Instability, Hutabarat, S., Worldortho,
www.worldortho.comVIDEOS
1996 Biomechanics of the Knee,
W. Walsh, S Hutabarat, D Wallace, W Bruce & D Sonnabend Sports Medicine Medical Education Video, UNSW.OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1993 A Patient’s Guide to the Total Knee Replacement, M. Soloman, & S Hutabarat
1993 A Simple Guide to Orthopaedics, R.L. Huckstep, Illustrations
Memberships
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Australian Orthopaedic Association
Australian Medical Association
Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Memberships Surfer’s Medical Association
Dr Hutabarat lives on the Central Coast and is a keen surfer. He is learning to foil board.
Over the years he was keenly involved in football and has enjoyed helping to develop the skills of youth footballers as a coach. He maintains a keen interest in sports biomechanics, sports psychology and development of the mental side of high performance.
Many people strive for many things including wealth, power or recognition. Dr Hutabarat’s ambition is to leave this life with a clear conscience having “done my best, to be the best person that I can possibly be, while treating my patients and colleagues with understanding, compassion and humility”. This is the principle that drives the practice. The quality of the work is in itself the reward.
