Dinshaw Pardiwala is Head – Centre for Sports Medicine, & Director - Arthroscopy & Shoulder Service at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hosptal, Mumbai, India. He is an ISAKOS committee member, and is on the board of APKASS. He is also an active member of Indian Arthroscopy Association, and Shoulder & Elbow Society of India. He has been on the editorial board of leading arthroscopy journals including Arthroscopy and American Journal of Sports Medicine. Besides being India’s representative at the ICC (International Cricket Council) Medical Committee, he is the board physician for many Indian sports teams. His work in arthroscopy has been internationally published and he is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious ISAKOS John Joyce Award in 2009.

Dr. Francois Tudor
MBBS, MSc, FRACS (Orth), FAOA, FRCS (Tr&Orth, UK)
Surgeon Gold Coast University & John Flynn Hospitals
Assistant Professor Bond University, Australia

Francois Tudor is an internationally trained orthopaedic surgeon with subspecialty interest in knee surgery. He regularly manages injuries to the knee including ACL reconstruction, meniscus repair, multi ligament knee reconstruction and peri-articular fracture fixation. He also performs primary and revision knee arthroplasty.
He received his medical degree from St Mary’s Hospital in London in 2002 and went on to complete specialist orthopaedic training in London on The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital rotation. During this time, he spent a trauma fellowship at Massachusetts’s General Hospital in Boston. He subsequently completed a year of subspecialist fellowship training focusing on sports injuries to the knee with Dr Peter Myers at Brisbane Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre. There he developed arthroscopic skills in cruciate and multi- ligament reconstruction surgery and meniscus repair, as well as meniscal transplantation and joint preservation surgery including osteotomy.
He then undertook a further year of subspecialist fellowship training, focusing on lower limb surgery and trauma at the Holland Orthopaedic and Arthritic Centre and Sunnybrook Hospitals in Toronto, Canada. There, Dr Tudor developed advanced skills in hip and knee joint replacement, especially rapid discharge surgery and revision arthroplasty.
Dr. Tudor has been working at the Gold Coast University Hospital since 2015. The hospital is a level 1 trauma centre and has the busiest emergency department in Australia and attracts a vast range of complex orthopaedic problems. He continues his work in management of complex lower limb trauma along with knee sports injuries and joint preservation and arthroplasty. He maintains involvement in research with particular interest in meniscus transplantation and ACL reconstruction and has published many research papers in international journals and a number of book chapters on these topics. He works with a number of local sporting teams and clubs and has experience working with both elite athletes and weekend warriors!