SAHSS 2025 Annual Meeting
+ AGM

Friday 21st November 2025
Mount Lofty House

The South Australian Hand Surgery Society Annual Meeting is going to be held in person on Friday 21st November 2025 at Mount Lofty House. 

Our Invited Speakers for 2025 will be Dr Will Alexander (Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Adult and Paediatric) from Melbourne and Dr Brett McClelland (Hand and Wrist Surgery) from Newcastle.

The meeting is the only forum in South Australia for those interested in surgery of the hand and the upper limb. It includes Hand Surgeons, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Plastic Surgeons, Occupational and rehabilitation Physicians, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Nurses, Surgical Trainees and others with an interest in the upper limb and the hand.

Call for Abstracts - Anyone interested in presenting at the meeting should email an abstract ASAP to Dr Oscar Brumby-Rendell and Dr Nick Smith - oscar.br@me.com and nws.smith@gmail.com. Alternatively if you feel that any colleague or trainee may wish to present please give them this link and encourage them to contact Oscar or Nick ASAP. Applicants will be notified if their presentation is accepted.

ASM 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM  |  Scientific Meeting (Lunch will be served at 12:30).

The AGM will follow the meeting and start at 5:30 PM, followed by dinner at 6:30 PM (Martha’s Restaurant).

We look forward to seeing you there.

Dr Oscar Brumby-Rendell
SAHSS President

Invited Speakers

Dr Will Alexander obtained his medical degree from the University of Adelaide, and went on to specialise in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.  He trained in the major tertiary centres in Victoria, including The Alfred, Peter MacCallum, Royal Melbourne, Royal Children’s, and St Vincent’s hospitals.

He undertook further microsurgery training in Coimbatore, India; then visited various international surgeons to further hone his skills, including in Paris and Kuala Lumpur. He volunteered his time in both Sri Lanka and Vietnam; and has worked in Darwin Hospital to help fill Plastic Surgical consultant staff shortages. 

Will completed his Hand and Microsurgery fellowship at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and more recently was awarded the prestigious American Society for Surgery of the Hand's (ASSH) International fellows' travelling fellowship, where he visited five prestigious Hand and Plastic Surgery centres across America. He was the winner of the 2024 Epworth Hospital's Travelling Doctor's Grant. 

He holds public appointments as a Consultant Surgeon at The Royal Children’s Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital, and Monash Children's Hospital.  He is a member of the Victorian Hand Surgery Associates (VHSA), and consults in the Fitzroy rooms.  He is a regular visiting surgeon at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Kew, as well as Epworth Freemasons Albert St.

Will has sub-specialised in adult and paediatric hand surgery, including nerve and micro-surgery.  He maintains a keen interest in other aspects of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, in particular skin surgery (cancer management, reconstructive).

He has presented and published his research extensively on the national and international surgical forum, on a broad range of topics including nerve, trauma, burns, and cancer surgery. Most recently, he was an invited speaker at the 2023 combined hand surgery conference for American and Australian Hand Surgery societies, discussing advances in upper limb surgery in the setting of spasticity and cerebral palsy. He teaches junior doctors and surgeons regularly and has moderated numerous educational sessions for the Aus/NZ hand surgery fellows, on various topics. 

He is an accredited Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, and a member of the Indigenous Health Committee at RACS. 

Dr Brett McClelland is a fully qualified, Australian trained Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in Hand, wrist, peripheral nerve and Microsurgery. He manages every condition of the hand and wrist in both adult and paediatric patients.

After studying Medical Science at Sydney University, Dr McClelland undertook his medical schooling at The University of Newcastle. He also completed his Orthopaedic Surgical Specialty Training in Newcastle. He has worked in many Hospitals throughout New South Wales and South Australia. After completing his training, Dr McClelland undertook two sub-specialised Hand and Microsurgical Fellowships; firstly in Tampere, Finland, then in Toronto, Canada.

Dr McClelland received The Transplantation Society’s Young Investigator Grant for his work on Hand Transplantation in 2013. He has presented this and other research at Local, National and International meetings in Australia, North America and Europe.

Dr McClelland has an interest in peripheral nerve surgery including carpal and cubital tunnel syndromes and the brachial plexus, Dupuytrens Disease, arthritis around the hand and wrist (both osteo and rheumatoid), as well as hand trauma and reconstructive microsurgery.

Dr McClelland is a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, as well as holding memberships with the Australian Medical Association, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, The Transplantation Society, and the International Hand and Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Society.

Membership

You can renew and/or apply for your membership fees for 2026 with your online ASM 2025 registration.

Ordinary Members – medical practitioners with an interest in hand surgery and hold a surgical fellowship or equivalent qualification $100

Associate (Non voting) – medical practitioners, surgical trainees, hand therapists and allied professionals who have a medical degree or allied health qualification but not a surgical fellowship $30

 Registration Fees

Registration Fees SAHSS is not registered for GST and therefore all fees are GST free.

Current Ordinary Member or Non-Member Applying for Ordinary Membership in 2026

• All Day Meeting (including dinner) $385

• Scientific Meeting (dinner not included) $225

Current Associate Member or Non-Member Applying for Associate Membership in 2026

• All Day Meeting (including dinner) $285

• Scientific Meeting (dinner not included) $125

Consultant Non-Member not applying for 2026 Membership

• All Day Meeting (including dinner) $485

• Scientific Meeting (dinner not included) $325

Other Clinician Non-Member not applying for 2026 Membership

• All Day Meeting (including dinner)  $315

• Scientific Meeting (dinner not included) $155 

Dinner Extra Tickets - $165 pp 

Dining at Mount Lofty House - Martha's Kitchen:  3 Course dinner featuring best produce of South Australia & the Adelaide Hills designed by Martha's Head Chef including a 3 hour Adelaide Hills premium beverage package including wines, craft beers, juice, mineral water, soft drink.

Exhibitors

Scientific Meeting: 9.30AM - 5.00PM
AGM: 5.30PM
Dinner Meeting: 6.30PM

Location: Mount Lofty House, Crafers

For further details please contact:

Lara Malcolm, The Meeting People

SAHSS Meeting Manager

South Australian Hand Surgery Society
E: lara@themeetingpeople.com.au T: 08 8177 2215 or 0411 439 410