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Allegiance
  
Australia

Service/branch
  
Australian Army

Rank
  
Brigadier

Role
  
Surgeon

Name
  
Rob Atkinson


Rob Atkinson (surgeon)

Birth name
  
Robert Neville Atkinson

Born
  
21 March 1947 (age 77) (
1947-03-21
)

Deployments
  
Vietnam War Gulf War UNAMIR (Rwanda) Operation Bel Isi (Bougainville) INTERFET (East Timor) UNTAET (East Timor) Operation Astute

Awards
  
Member of the Order of Australia Reserve Force Decoration

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Brigadier Robert Neville "Rob" Atkinson, AM, RFD, FAMA (born 21 March 1947) is an orthopaedic surgeon and retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, best known for his contributions to trauma and military surgery.

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Career

In 1970, Atkinson graduated MB, BS from the University of Adelaide, completed his residency, then served with the Australian Army as a medical officer during the Vietnam War, specialising in trauma and orthopaedic surgery. He continued his career in the Australian Army Reserve, becoming Assistant Surgeon General (Army) of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). In 1998, he reached the rank of brigadier. He was also Emeritus Consultant in Military Surgery for the ADF.

His military service included deployment to the Gulf War, and peacekeeping missions in Rwanda, Bougainville and East Timor. He also served in Aceh, and Samoa, following the tsunamis of 2005 and 2009.

He has served on the council of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and received the E.S.R. Hughes Award for distinguished contributions to military surgery.

In 2008 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "for services to medicine as an orthopaedic surgeon and through contributions to professional associations", and was admitted as a Fellow of the Australian Medical Association (FAMA) in the same year.

In 2014, he became the President of the Naval, Military and Air Force Club of South Australia. In the same year he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the South Australian Legislative Council on the independent 'Your Voice Matters' ticket.

Publications

Atkinson has contributed to published papers on medical, surgical and road safety since 1978, including:

  • Atkinson, R. N.; Paterson, D. C.; Morriss, L. L.; Savage, J. P. (August 1978), "Bone Scintigraphy in discitis and related disorders in children", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 48 (4): 374–377, doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.1978.tb04879.x 
  • Mah, E. T.; Atkinson, R. N. (February 1992), "Percutaneous kirschner wire stabilisation following closed reduction of colles' fractures", The Journal of Hand Surgery: British & European Volume, 17 (1): 55–62, doi:10.1016/0266-7681(92)90012-q 
  • Clayer, M.; Atkinson, R. (May 1994), "A method of pre-operative assessment for posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 64 (5): 319–321, doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.1994.tb02218.x 
  • Mah, E. T.; Wang, W.; Atkinson R. N. (September 1996), "A new clinical sign to aid the diagnosis of locked posterior dislocation of the shoulder", Emergency Medicine, 8 (3): 129–132, doi:10.1111/j.1442-2026.1996.tb00595.x 
  • Pathak, G.; Atkinson R. N. (April 2001), "Military external fixation of fractures" (PDF), ADF Health, 2: 24–28 
  • Davey, T. M.; Pollard, C. W.; Aitken, L. M.; Fitzgerald, M.; Bellamy, N.; Cass, D.; Danne, P. D.; Griggs, W. M.; Cameron, P. A.; Atkinson, R. N.; Hamill. H.; Rao, S.; Richardson, D. B.; O'Connor, C. (November 2006), "Tackling the burden of injury in Australasia: developing a binational trauma registry", The Medical Journal of Australia, 185 (9): 512–514 
  • Grossbard, G.; Atkinson, R.; Cass, D.; Woolley, J.; Corben, B.; Whear, M. (2013), "2020 Vision Zero: to share or not to share the way" (PDF), Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 24 (4): 57–59 

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