Dr. Takaaki Hiranaka obtained his MD degree from Okayama University (Okayama, Japan) in 2014 and earned his PhD in 2021 from the Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Okayama University. He has gained experience at prestigious institutions, including the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic (London, Canada), where he served as a combined clinical and research fellow.

Currently, Dr. Hiranaka is a research fellow at the Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute (SORI), specializing in patient-specific knee joint preservation surgeries. He has authored 20 research articles as the first author, published in high-impact international journals, addressing topics such as meniscus repair, ACL reconstruction, knee osteotomy, and knee arthroplasty.

Dr. Hiranaka has been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Overseas Research Fellowship, highlighting his significant contributions to orthopedic research.

Dr Ignacio Fernández Zamora obtained his MD degree from Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile) from March 2007 to December 2013. He completed his orthopaedic training at the same University (Chile) from May 2018 to April 2021 at “Instituto de Salud del Trabajador”, in Viña del Mar. He has been working in the same hospital where he completed his orthopaedic training, in addition to a Sports Medicine Center, since May 2021.

Currently, he is a fellow in Knee Surgery at Sydney Orthopaedics Research Institute, working in research regarding high tibial osteotomy and the conversion to a total knee arthroplasty, as well as studies regarding ACL surgery.

Dr. Giacomo Dal Fabbro obtained his MD degree from University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) in 2017. He did his Orthopaedics Residency Program and Training from 2018 to 2023 at the Rizzoli Orthopaedics Institute (Bologna, Italy) and University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) with a thesis on knee osteotomy and joint preserving surgery for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis, under the supervision of Prof. S. Zaffagnini.

He then worked as Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Rizzoli Orthopaedics Institute (Bologna, Italy) up to July 2024. He is currently PhD candidate in Surgical Science and Innovative Technologies at University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) and Clinical Fellow in Knee Surgery at the Sydney Orthopaedics Research Institute (St. Leonards, Sydney, NSW, Australia).

He has had extensive involvement in research projects at Rizzoli Orthopaedics Institute and Sydney Orthopaedics Research Institute, with more than 30 research articles published in indexed journals.

Dr Fabio Mancino obtained his MD degree from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome, Italy) in 2015. He did his orthopaedic training at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS (Rome, Italy) from 2016 to 2021 with a thesis on robotic knee arthroplasty.

During his training, he visited centres of excellence on hip and knee surgery in Italy and the US. He did his first Fellowship in Hip and Knee arthroplasty at the Fiona Stanley Hospital and Fremantle Hospital (Perth, Western Australia) from Feb 2022 to Jan 2023 under the supervision of Mr. C. Jones and Prof. P. Yates.

He then did a second fellowship on Hip and Knee arthroplasty at the University College Hospitals of London from Feb 2023 to Jan 2024 under the supervision of Prof. F.S. Haddad, focusing on robotic surgery.

He is now a current fellow in Knee Surgery at the Sydney Orthopaedics Research Institute.

He has had extensive involvement in research projects at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Orthopaedic Research Foundation of WA, UCLH Foundation Trust, and Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute, with more than 40 research articles published in high impact indexed journals.