Dr Robert Baird (Orthopaedic Surgeon)
- Name
- Dr Robert Peter Baird
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery Flinders University Australia 2000
- FRACS Australia 2000
- Occupation
- Orthopaedic Surgeon
- Gender
- Male
Dr Baird is an Australian trained Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in hip and knee surgery and orthopaedic trauma. He is trained and certified in the use of Robotic Arm assisted Joint Replacement Surgery.
After completing his training in South Australia he conducted further sub-specialty training in complex joint replacement surgery at St Michaels Hospital, Toronto, Canada and orthopaedic trauma surgery at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
A Special interest of his is joint replacement surgery and revision surgery which includes problems due to fractures, infection, loosening, instability or implant fractures.
Dr Baird is one of the first surgeons in South Australia to be trained and certified in the use of Robotic Arm Assisted Joint Replacement using the Stryker MAKO robotic system TM. This has been shown to result in improved surgical accuracy, a more natural feeling of the joint replacement and faster rehabilitation time.
Dr Baird is a member of the arthroplasty unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he is a senior visiting surgeon.
- Hospital Affiliations
- North Eastern Community Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- Adelaide Hip and Knee Centre
- Franklin House Specialist Centre
- Adelaide Orthopaedic and Trauma Specialists
- Affiliated Organisations
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)
Practice Locations
SA
- Adelaide Hip and Knee Centre
- Address
- Burnside Specialist Centre
Suite 3 120 Kensington Road
Toorak Gardens SA 5065
Australia
- Phone
- (08) 7325 4800
- Fax
- 1800 372 687
- North Eastern Community Hospital
- Address
- 580 Lower North East Road
Campbelltown SA 5074
Australia
- Phone
- 08 8366 8111
- Fax
- 08 8365 1139
- Franklin House Specialist Centre
- Address
- Mark Oliphant Building
Suite 8 5 Laffer Drive
Bedford Park SA 5042
Australia
- Phone
- 08 8277 6344
- Fax
- 08 8374 1144
