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10 things you didn’t know about Dr. Higgs
1. Dr. Robin Higgs started his medical career at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital, the oldest hospital in London. He learned his
orthopaedics first hand after being hospitalized for 3 months as a medical
student following an accident.
2. He undertook a testing selection course to become a member of UK Special
Forces, later serving in Malaya, Hong Kong, Singapore and Europe. He commanded a
parachute field surgical unit and completed many parachute drops before
emigrating to Australia in 1975.
3. He has canoed from the top to the bottom of Holland in a canoe he built
himself and he has driven, in a VW Beetle, from Calcutta to London.
4. He has held professorial academic appointments in three Universities all at
the same time in four different Faculties.
i. University of Sydney (Faculty of Medicine & Engineering)
ii. University of Technology (Faculty of Science)
iii. University of New South Wales (Faculty of Biomedical Engineering)
5. He was painted for the Archibald Prize by Jocelyn Maughan in 1997.
6. Robin has been awarded three post- graduate medals.
i. The prestigious Pauwel’s Medal – awarded by the German Orthopaedic Society
for contributions to World Orthopaedic Research in general and for contribution
to the understanding of the Biomechanics of the Hip Joint in particular.
ii. The Marshall Webb Medal for Military Medicine (London University)
iii. Tow Prize Medal in surgery at the University of NSW.
7. He graduated as a Master of Engineering on the same day as his son (William)
at The University of Sydney in 1999.
8. He was the Medical Director of the Wales Helicopter Service in 1976. He was
recommended for a bravery award for rescuing a sailor from a burning boat at the
start of the Sydney to Hobart race in 1977. This featured on the front page of
the Melbourne Age.
9. He is the sole inventor of the Concord Shoulder Prosthesis.
10. He was the first to introduce ceramic orthopaedic implants
and cement free fixation in Australia in 1980
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