St George Private Hospital
Level 2, Kirk Place
St George Hip and Knee Clinic, 15 Kensington Street
KOGARAH, NSW, 2217
02 9598 6777
02 9598 6755
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Dr Zoltan Szomor has more than 25 years’ experience as an orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in hip and knee surgery, including joint replacement, hip and knee primary and revision arthroplasty, and knee reconstruction and arthroscopic surgery. He provides more than 3,000 consultations and conducts more than 600 operations each year, most of these being elective hip and knee procedures.
Dr Szomor is one of the first orthopaedic surgeons in Australia to practice the minimally-invasive, tissue-sparing surgical technique for total hip replacement—the SuperPATH. This technique usually leads to a quicker recovery and accelerated rehabilitation, while minimising pain. For total knee replacements, he uses one of the most advanced, ceramic-coated knee replacements. Dr Szomor has a significantly lower revision rate than the national average—0.35 compared to the national average of 0.66 revisions per 100 observed years (based on the National Join Replacement Registry data for the past decade).
Dr Szomor completed his advanced orthopaedic training with the Australian Orthopaedic Association Training Program and was elected to be a Fellow of The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He completed a PhD Degree at the University of New South Wales, performing cutting-edge musculoskeletal research. He also completed an 18-month fellowship at Kyoto University, Japan, focusing on arthroplasty and cartilage research, as well as a fellowship in Sydney in 1997 and 1998.
Dr Szomor’s strong interest and ongoing commitment in research resulted in over 50 scientific papers being published in international journals and he has presented close to 100 scientific papers at national and international conferences. Dr Szomor has been actively involved in the education of medical students and postgraduate junior doctors as a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW and as the Term Supervisor of Junior Medical Officers at St George Hospital for the past 25 years. He regularly supervises visiting international students and doctors-in-training for elective terms in orthopaedic surgery. Dr Szomor’s main practice is at the St George Hip & Knee Clinic.
He has affiliations with St George Private and Public, Kareena Private, Hurstville Private and Sutherland Hospitals, as well as the National Day Surgery at Kogarah.
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