CURRICULUM VITAE

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DR NEIL KRUGER

Personal information Age: 39 Married to Dr Jessica Purcell-Jones, one child: Leah Grace Kruger Nationalities: ; The DOB: 15 August 1981 Education South African College High School (SACS) 1995 – 1999 MBChB – 2000 - 2005 MSc (taught) in Diagnostic Imaging - Oxford University 2007 – 2008 MSc (res) in Orthopaedic Surgery - Oxford University 2009 – 2011 MMed in Orthopaedic Surgery – University of Cape Town 2015-2017 FCS Orth South Africa 2018 Fellowship in Hand and Upper Limb Surgery 2019/2020 – Prof Greg Bain – Australian Orthopaedic Association Academic awards Rhodes Scholar 2005 (Came up in 2007/8) FCS Orth South Africa (dux) (cum laude) 2018 – Edelstein medal recipient MSc in Diagnostic Imaging, Oxford University (dux) (cum laude) (2008) MMed in Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Cape Town (cum laude) 2017 UCT Academic Entrance Scholarship 2000-2003 UCT Michael Hiddingh Scholarship for ongoing academic achievements 2000-2003 SACS Full Academic Colours – cum laude Victoria Scholarship for academic performance in the scholarship examinations for Grades 11 and 12 Present appointment and Hand and Upper Limb specialist private practice – Kingsbury and Vincent Palotti hospitals clinical experience • June 2020 – present Orthopaedic sessional consultant, University of Cape Town, Red Cross and Maitland Cottage Hospitals, Cape Town • Feb 2020 – present AOA accredited upper limb fellow – Prof Greg Bain, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide • March 2019 – Feb 2020 Senior lecturer – Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health • September 2019 – Feb 2020 Orthopaedic sessional consultant, University of Cape Town, Hospital, Cape Town • Jan 2019 – March 2019 Orthopaedic registrar, University of Cape Town, , Cape Town. • August 2014 to Jan 2019 Orthopaedic registrar, Greys Hospital, Pietermaritzburg Hospital Complex. • July 2013 to August 2014 Grade 1 Medical Officer in Orthopaedics, Northdale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg Hospital Complex. • February 2012 to June 2013. Intensive Care Unit rotation (October 2012 to January 2013) Grade 1 Medical Officer in A & E and Orthopaedics at George Provincial Hospital. • September 2011 to December 2011 Senior Medical Officer/Junior Registrar locum appointment in A & E at both the John Radcliffe Hospital and Banbury Hospital within the Oxford Radcliffe Trust. Total of 16 months working between 4 and 10 shifts a month to supplement research stipend. • May 2010 to August 2011 Community Service Medical Officer 1 Year (Split into two 6 month periods due to Rhodes Scholarship commitments) • 1 April 2007 to 30 September 2007: Accident and Emergency Medical Officer • 7 July 2008 to 7 January 2009: Accident and Emergency Medical Officer Internship Designated rotations in Surgery, Obs and Gynae, Family Medicine and Paediatrics • 1 Year (Jan 2006 – December 2006) Membership and Health Professions Council of South Africa – Registration number: MP 0635588 Courses General Medical Council (UK) – Registration number: 7019641 South African Orthopaedic Association – Associate member (Since 2013) South African Society of Surgery of the Hand (SASSH) – Member (Since 2016) Medartis Masters course: Realistic treatment of shoulder fractures. Maquarie University, Sydney, Aus. 2019 IBRA Masters course: Realistic treatment of wrist and elbow fractures. Melbourne, Aus. 2019 LMT wrist workshop: Wrist fractures, Scaphoid fractures and 3+4 corner fusions. Melbourne, Aus. 2019 Oxford Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Course (September 2009, Keble College, Oxford, Oxfordshire) AO Basic Principles of Operative Fracture Management Course (August 2009. La Jolla, California, USA) Research and Educational MSc (t) in Diagnostic Imaging – Dissertation Title: “Exploring magnetic resonance imaging of meniscal activities injuries: A dissertation including a pilot study assessing MRI’s predicative role in meniscal tears”

Supervisor Dr Stephen Golding MSc in Diagnostic Imaging course coordinator Consultant Radiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital Email: [email protected]

MSc (res) in Orthopaedic Surgery – Thesis Title: “Non-invasive prediction of the most peripheral extent of knee meniscal tears”

Supervisors Professor Jonathan Rees MB BS, FRCS (Eng), MD, FRCS (Tr & Orth) University Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskelatal Science Honorary Consultant Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon Email: [email protected]

Professor Andrew Price BA MBB (Ch) FRCS, FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedics), DPhil Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Email: [email protected]

Co-chair and sessional chair at annual UCT Surgical Research Day 2015 and 2016 Co-chair first annual Orthopaedic Research Unit Symposium – Trauma session 2015 Co-author and editor of the Northdale Hospital basic treatment and follow up protocol guide for interns 2013 Instituted and taught morning internship tutorials at Northdale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg 2012 Publications and Kruger N, Phadnis J, Bhatia D.N, Amarasooriya M, Bain G.I. Acute distal biceps tendon ruptures: Anatomy, presentations pathology and management: State-of-the-art. Revising for JISAKOS

Amarasooriya M, Bryant K, Kruger N, Bain G.I. Carpal bone motion tracking during wrist radioulnar deviation using 4-Dimentional CT– A comparative study of normal wrist and wrist with scapholunate instability. Submitted to Journal of Wrist Surgery 2019 – awaiting outcome

Jones L, Mellon S, Monk AP, Kruger N, Price AJ, Beard D. Medial meniscal extrusion: a validation study comparing different methods of assessment. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc (2018) 26:1152–1157

Kruger N, Stander L, Maqungo S, Roche S, Held M. The Oxford Shoulder Score: Cross-cultural adaptation and translational validation into . SAOJ 2018;17(1)

Kruger N, O’ Connor M, Ferreira N, Marais LC. HIV seroprevalence and its relation to bone infection, bone tumours and limb reconstruction patients in a South African tertiary hospital. SAOJ 2017;16(4)

Hilton TL, Kruger N, Wiese KR, Martin CW, Maqungo S. Gunshot tibia fractures treated with intramedullary nailing: A single centre retrospective review. SAOJ 2017 16(1): 32-38.

Kruger N, McNally E, Al-Ali S, Rout R, Rees JL, Price AJ. Three-dimensional reconstructed magnetic resonance scans: Accuracy in identifying and defining knee meniscal tears. World J Orthop 2016; 7(11): 731-737.

Kruger N, Thompson, D. Dysplasia Epiphysealis Hemimelica: An interesting case report involving the talus and literature review. SAOJ 2015 14(2):43-47. World Combined Orthopaedic Congress (COMOC) 2016 – Presentation: “Three-dimensional reconstructed magnetic resonance scans: Accuracy in identifying and defining knee meniscal tears”. Cape Town, South Africa Postgraduate Supervision Co-supervised Mr Jordy de Roos MSc graduated - Conversion of the Knee Osteoarthritis Outcome Score-Physical Shortform into a Video Format

Languages English First Language Afrikaans First Language Xhosa Third Language Dutch Third Language Other awards Most promising registrar: UCT orthopaedic department 2016 Holland National Cricket Team 2011 Oxford University Cricketing School of Excellence 2011 Oxford University Blues Cricket Team 2008 - 2010 – Full Blue Oxford University Blues Golf Team 2008 - 2009 – Full Blue Oxford University Golf Captain to World Student Championships in Germany 2009 Nautilus Award for Sporting Achievement (Green Templeton College, Oxford) 2010 UCT First XI 2000-2004 (Captain 2003-2004) and Cricket Half Colours UCT Cricket Sports Bursary 2000-2003 Western Province Senior Provincial ‘B’ Cricket Team 2000 + 2003 Western Province Cricket Academy 2000 UCT First Golf Team 2003-2004 UCT representative at the Boyd Quaich Memorial Golf Tournament at St Andrews in Scotland 2004 Leadership roles Captain UCT Cricket First XI Captain Oxford University Golf Team to World Student Matchplay Championships Vice Captain Oxford University Blues Cricket Team SHAWCO (Student Health And Welfare Centres Organisation) Health Education Committee Chairman (UCT) SACS Deputy Head Boy Hobbies Flyfishing and fly tying Spearfishing Golf Hiking Chess