Dr Darren Paterson

Practices

Profile

Dr Darren Paterson operates as an orthopaedic surgeon at Sydney Adventist Hospital, and has an appointment as a VMO orthopaedic surgeon with the Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service at Gosford. He also operates at North Shore Private Hospital and Berkley Vale Private Hospital.

Darren was born and raised on Sydneys northern beaches. He completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Sydney. Darren trained in Orthopaedic Surgery through the Australian Orthopaedic Association training program in Sydney Northside program. He obtained his fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2005. Darren currently resides on the northern beaches.

Following his specialist training, Dr Paterson gained international subspecialty experience in Primary and revision Hip Arthroplasty surgery at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre, Exeter, Devon, UK. This unit developed the Exeter hip replacement, which is the most widely used hip replacement in use in Australia at this time. This was followed by a Harvard Knee Arthroplasty Fellowship at the Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr Paterson also completed a Paedatric Orthopaedic hip fellowship at the Shrivers Hospital in Portland, Oregon USA. He developed skills in paediatric hip surery and adolescent arthoscopy.

Dr Paterson consults at the San Clinic Suite 301. He looks forward to providing a high quality of care to the North Shore in his specific areas of hip and knee arthroplasty (Primary and Revision) and arthroscopic surgery of hips and knee and trauma surgery.

Research

Current research interests include stem cell therapy in young adults with moderate to severe osteoarthritis of the lower limbs and minimally invasive arthroplasty of the hip and knee

Hospitals