{"id":82638,"date":"2025-08-20T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82638\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:37:10","slug":"disgraced-surgeon-dr-munjed-al-muderis-has-membership-revoked-by-australian-orthopaedic-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82638\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis has membership revoked by Australian Orthopaedic Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe conduct of the board of the AOA is irregular and contrary to the requirements of the AOA constitution. This has been raised with the AOA and we will let you know if we receive a response,\u201d the lawyers said.<\/p>\n

Patient Leah Mooney was among those who complained to the association.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a victim of his incompetence as a surgeon and his little regards for after-care,\u201d she wrote to the association on Tuesday night. \u201cI have been left with a permanently stiff leg. From 2012, we have been dealing with the HCCC [Health Care Complaints Commission] and the Medical Council without any satisfaction.<\/p>\n

\"Leah<\/p>\n

Leah Mooney with her husband, Tim Mooney, outside the Federal Court.Credit: Janie Barrett<\/p>\n

\u201cI would strongly advise you consider the numerous complaints and findings and find Dr Al Muderis unworthy of his profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, the AOA\u2019s chair of professional conduct and standards, Susan Liew, apologised for Mooney\u2019s suffering, and pledged to raise her complaint at Tuesday night\u2019s board meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so sorry you have had such a terrible experience and continue to live with the consequences. As you can imagine, we have had a number of communications from various people including our colleagues. Our board will be discussing this matter tonight to determine what the AOA can do,\u201d Liew wrote.<\/p>\n

Dr Al Muderis\u2019 former patient turned business partner, Fred Hernandez, resubmitted a complaint he made several years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Fred<\/p>\n

Fred Hernandez urged action against Al Muderis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis individual has had many accusations\/complaints made about him over the years and yet has endured with impunity. The court case not only shed a light upon the actions of Al Muderis but has proven they were and have always been true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time an agency within Australia takes formal action upon this individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liew also responded to Hernandez, thanking him for his professionalism and stating \u201cyou would not be surprised that we [the AOA] have received a number of complaints in relation to this matter over the last few days\u201d.<\/p>\n

Al Muderis\u2019 professional website promotes the AOA branding, as well as the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ASOS), an association to \u201cpromote and maintain the highest standard of orthopaedic care\u201d.<\/p>\n

ASOS chief executive Stephen Milgate said last week that Al Muderis would soon be asked to remove its logo from his website.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr Munjed Al Muderis is NOT currently an ASOS member. And according to our database, he has not been an ASOS member since 2010,\u201d Milgate said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have recently updated our constitution regarding use of our ASOS logo (we are currently awaiting approval from ASIC for these changes). We will be contacting him once the constitution is ratified by ASIC.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Macquarie University Hospital said on Wednesday that Al Muderis was not currently practising at the hospital and had taken indefinite leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hospital continues to carefully consider all latest developments regarding this matter,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no current complaints about the matters raised in the Federal Court ruling, nor have any issues been raised directly with the hospital by appropriate regulators.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny formal investigations, if warranted, are conducted in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and with respect for due process, fairness and confidentiality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al Muderis remains able to operate at several hospitals around Sydney including Norwest.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Healthscope, the company that operates Norwest, said on Monday that Al Muderis remained accredited but his profile was recently deleted from its website because he had not performed any surgery since April.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are concerned by the court findings and will take appropriate action should the relevant regulators place any restrictions on Dr Al Muderis\u2019 practice,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Medical regulators the HCCC and AHPRA have previously said they are reviewing the court judgment but have not committed to any new investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe conduct of the board of the AOA is irregular and contrary to the requirements of the AOA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-82638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}