Keeping you moving
Dr. Andrew S. Comley
M.B.B.S., F.R.A.C.S. (Orth.), F.A.O.A.
Orthopaedic speciality
- Hip conditions
- Knee conditions
- Shoulder conditions
Dr Comley specializes in hip, knee and shoulder surgery procedures including:
- Anterior approach hip replacement
- Mini-navigated and robotic assisted knee replacement
- ACL reconstruction
- Knee arthroscopy
- Shoulder replacement, arthroscopy and rotator cuff surgery
These procedures offer patients the most rapid recovery from their surgery whilst optimizing surgical accuracy to ensure excellent long-term results.
Current appointments
Consulting at
- Wakefield Orthopaedic Clinic
- Injury Hub Willaston
- Tanunda Medical Centre
- Glenelg Community Hospital
- Gawler Specialist Centre
- Balhannah Medical Clinic
Operating at
- Calvary Adelaide Hospital
- Burnside War Memorial Hospital
- Flinders Private Hospital
- Gawler Health Services
- Glenelg Community Hospital
- Memorial Hospital
- Parkwynd Private Hospital
Visiting Orthopaedic Specialist at
- Gawler Health Service
Post-surgery guidelines
Other appointments
- Clinical Lecturer – University of Adelaide and Flinders University
- AOA (SA) Orthopaedic Training Committee
- Supervisor of Surgical Training (RACS)
Postgraduate speciality training
- Fellowship Royal Australasian College of Surgeons – Orthopaedics 2002
- RACS Marjorie Hooper Travelling Research Fellowship 2003
- Fellowship in Adult Reconstructive Surgery (Hip and Knee Joint Replacement) – University Hospital, (London, Ontario, Canada) July 2003 – June 2004
- Fellowship training in arthroscopic and sports medicine – Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine Clinic – (London, Ontario, Canada)
Research
- Treatment of Infected total knee replacement
- Minimally invasive and unicompartmental knee replacement
- Patella resurfacing arthroplasty
- Gluteal tendon repair
- Alternative bearings in hip arthroplasty
Medical association memberships
- Australian Orthopaedic Association
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Australian Medical Association
- Australian Sports Medicine Association
Centre of excellence visitations
- Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada – acetabular reconstruction
- Hoffmann Clinic Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany- unicompartmental knee replacement
- Hospital Bern-Ziegler, Switzerland – ligament balancing total knee replacement
- Royal Brighton and Sussex Hospital – computer assisted knee replacement
- Oxford University- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre- unicompartmental knee replacement
- Hospital Special Surgery, New York – hip arthroscopy, total knee replacement
- Schultess Klinik, Zurich, Switzerland – anterior approach total hip replacement
- St Francis Hospital, Connecticut – anterior approach total hip replacement
