AAMM Board of Directors

Ramona is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has been working in the field of Musculoskeletal Medicine since 2002. She is passionate about providing a comprehensive approach to managing musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction, aiming to understand and treat the cause of a patient’s symptoms. Combined with a thorough assessment, she treats musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction using a number of techniques, including regenerative injection therapies (dextrose prolotherapy and platelet rich plasma), trigger point injections, perineural injection treatment and peripheral nerve hydrodissection. She has also undergone additional training in ultrasound imaging to assist diagnosis and injection guidance. Ramona has a special interest in the management of sacroiliac joint dysfunction and hypermobility disorders.

Ramona trained in Adelaide with A/Prof Norm Broadhurst and Dr Margaret Taylor. In 2004, she completed dextrose prolotherapy training as well as the Graduate Diploma in Musculoskeletal Medicine at Flinders University. She regularly attends local and international workshops, conferences and training to keep her skills up to date and learn about the latest musculoskeletal treatments and techniques. Ramona works in a multidisciplinary clinic in Adelaide, and enjoys collaborating with allied health practitioners to help achieve the best outcome for her patients.

She is the current President of the AAMM and convenor and tutor for the Adelaide node of the AAMM certificate course and injection therapies workshops for doctors. She was convenor of the AAMM annual conference in Adelaide in 2017 and past committee member and Treasurer for the association. She is also a tutor for Lyftogt Perineural Injection Treatment workshops.

Bruce is a GP who has worked extensively in the Special Interest area of Musculoskeletal Medicine since 2009. He adopts a holistic, multimodal approach and is open-minded about new and emerging technologies, research and management approaches in this challenging and exciting field of medicine. He utilises a range of non-surgical modalities to modulate pain and dysfunction including trigger point injection, nerve hydrodissection, Regenerative Injection Therapies (Dextrose Prolotherapy, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)), Lyftogt Perineural Injection Treatment and manual therapy. He enjoys using ultrasound to assist in these approaches. Bruce has a strong interest in chronic pain education and the management of patients with Hypermobility Syndromes and related comorbidities.

Bruce is Medical Director of the multidisciplinary clinic Brisbane Integrated Pain Care and is Vice-President of the Australian Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine.

FACRRM, MBBS, BSc, Cert MskMed

MD, MBA, MHRM,  B. Hlth Sci (Hons)

Education Convenor | Certificate in MSK Medicine

MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, FAFMM, Grad Dip Mus Med (Flinders) 

• General and Musculoskeletal Medicine Practitioner, Arana Hills QLD

• Associate Professor, Primary Health Care, Griffith University

Dr Geoff Harding has been practising full-time private practice Musculoskeletal Medicine in Sandgate (Brisbane) since 1989. He is a Life Member of the AAMM, and has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal for service to Musculoskeletal Medicine. In accepting this honour, he believes that this tribute is in fact an acknowledgement of the contributions made by all of his colleagues and predecessors towards “the cause”.

He was the Australian Academic Coordinator of the University of Otago Post- Graduate Diploma in Musculoskeletal Medicine for 20 years until end 2016. In addition, he has been involved in teaching Musculoskeletal Medicine skills to GPs for over 20 years and believes that this education is key in getting GPs to be able to assess and manage common musculoskeletal pain problems in the early stages to prevent chronicity as much as possible.

He has a special interest in verbal communication skills and patient education strategies to enable more effective outcomes in medical encounters. He also has a special interest in musculoskeletal ultrasound.

MBBS, FACRRM, DRANZCOG (adv), DCH, Cert MskMed.

Dan is a specialist musculoskeletal GP with over 13 years of experience as a GP based primarily at Cooroy with 10 years as a GP anaesthetist at Gympie Hospital. He trained at Flinders University and has undertaken further training, particularly in the area of musculoskeletal and pain medicine which he now practices full time. Dan has a particular interest in non-operative treatments of complex, persistent pain conditions. He utilises ultrasound guided assessment and treatment of pain conditions including diagnostic blocks, hydrodissection of nerve entrapments, regenerative medicine techniques (such as platelet-rich plasma and prolotherapy), radiofrequency ablation amongst others. He utilises these skills to help patients improve their pain and ability to rehabilitate to allow them to return to work or play.

Brief curriculum vitae (CV):

• Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

• JCCA accredited GP Anaesthetist

• Completion of Post-graduate training in Musculoskeletal Medicine

MBBS FRACGP DCH BN Cert MskMed