Southern Highlands Private Hospital
Dr Ashish Diwan is an Orthopaedic Surgeon. He is the Director of Spine Service at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, St. George Hospital, University of New South Wales. He is also the Director of Bone Biology at the Orthopaedic Research Institute.
21 St. Jude Street
Bowral, NSW, 2576
02 8566 7166
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Dr Ashish Diwan is an Orthopaedic Surgeon. He is the Director of Spine Service at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, St. George Hospital, University of New South Wales. Within the University of New South Wales, he also functions as the Post Graduate Coordinator for the St George & Sutherland Clinical School.
Following his orthopaedic surgical training, he completed a Spine & Scoliosis Fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), Weil Medical College, Cornell University in New York City, where he was awarded the prestigious Philip D. Wilson Award. He is now an International Ambassador for HSS.
Dr Diwan has mentored and tutored numerous spinal surgeons over the years. He was part of the global trainers and certifiers team for prodisc lumbar and cervical disc replacements and he currently teaches rebalancing of the spine using minimally invasive posterior spinal fusions and minimally invasive lateral access surgery to the spine. He has also developed novel approaches to decompressing the spine where the stability of the spinal column is maintained.
He is a recipient of the National Orthopaedic Surgery Fellows Foundation Award for outstanding achievements in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. He was awarded the Merrill Lynch Global Innovation Award 2000. He was part of the team that received the ISSLS prize for basic science (Banff 2018).
Dr Diwan was the Treasurer for the International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine (till May 2020), he is the current Chairman of AOSpine AUSNZ Council, Director Global Membership for Society for Lateral Access Surgery, the Section Editor (Lumbar) for International Journal for Spinal Surgery and Deputy Editor for the Asian Spine Journal. He serves as a member of the European Spine Journal’s Editorial Board.
In the past, he has served on the Research Committee of the International Society for the Advancement of Spinal Surgery, and has been the Vice President of OTC-South Pacific, Topic Co-Chair (Spine) for Orthopaedic Research Society, Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and IT of the University of Sydney, Hon Professor of IT & Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney, and Guest Editor of Orthopaedic Clinics of North America on two occasions.
A resident of Bowral, he is now locally available for Consultation in his private Rooms and performs surgery at the Southern Highlands Private Hospital.