meet the team

---

Dr Al Muderis (DMedSc |  FRACS | FAOrthA) is a technical and technological pioneer in the emerging field of osseointegration, and a leading specialist in hip, knee and limb reconstruction. His innovative transcutaneous bone-anchored prosthesis has proved transformational for patients with limb loss.

Author of more than 80 research publications, Dr Al Muderis holds academic positions at some of Sydney’s most prestigious learned institutions, including clinical professorships at Macquarie University and the University of Notre Dame Australia, and as an honorary associate of the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Sydney. He is currently Discipline Lead for Lower Limb Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at Australia’s first university-owned teaching hospital, MQ Health. 

The recipient of numerous humanitarian accolades, Dr Al Muderis is an ambassador for the Red Cross and Amnesty International, whose work in this field has taken him from Botswana to Iraq and Ukraine, where he has delivered desperately-needed orthopaedic care to families affected by conflict. 

Dr Taqi (MBBS | FCPS, Orthopedic Surgery) is a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, specialising in deformity correction, joint replacement and limb reconstruction. A graduate of the prestigious King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Dr Taqi was the recipient of a FCPS Gold Medal during his surgical fellowship. 

Dr. Taqi is a contributing author to more than 30 research publications and has designed and developed innovative care protocols for both CRPS and osseointegration.

A key member of Macquarie University Hospital’s multidisciplinary Limb Reconstruction Centre, Dr Mustafa Alttahir is a leading orthopaedic surgeon specialising in osseointegration, limb reconstruction, and deformity correction.

A graduate of the University of New South Wales, Dr Alttahir has completed specialist fellowships at Basel, Switzerland, under Prof. Victor Valderrabano and in Spain under Prof. Mario Herrera-Perez, as well as a Prince of Wales Fellowship at Sydney under Drs David Lunz, John Negrine and Jeff Ling, and a Macquarie University Fellowship under Dr Tim O’Carrigan. 

Dr Alttahir’s further specialisms include ankle, knee and hip arthroplasty and complex foot and ankle surgeries, including those requiring bespoke, 3D-printed, joints.

Assoc. Professor Boesel has held an academic appointment at Macquarie

University’s Australian School of Advanced Medicine since 2007, and currently practices at Macquarie University Hospital, Macquarie Neurosurgery, Western Sydney and Inner West Pain Centres, and Orthopaedics ACT.

His work includes the development of novel treatments for facial neuropathic pain and the use of high-frequency spinal cord stimulation for phantom lower limb pain. He has recently completed clinical trials on a novel closed-loop spinal cord stimulation system for the treatment of patients with leg and lower back pain. His specialisms include neuropathic pain, interventional pain management including advanced neuromodulation therapies, and medical education.

Professor Di Leva is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, Head of the Computational Neurosurgery (CNS) Lab, and Chair of the Neuro-oncology and Pituitary Multidisplinary Teams at Macquarie University.  In 2019, he founded the Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab at Macquarie University, the first of its kind of the World, for the study of neurosurgical disease using AI. He is also lead of the Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumour Clinic and the Pain Neuromodulation Clinic, which he co-founded in 2020. 

A world-leading researcher, Prof. Di Leva is author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications and three textbooks. He is the recipient of numerous international research awards, including the 2019 John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship, the most prestigious research award of the RACS. 

Prof. Di Leva's specialisms include neuro-oncology, pituitary and skullbase surgery, microneurosurgery and neuroendoscopy, pain-relieving therapies (including spinal surgery and neuromodulation), neurotraumatology and  peripheral nerve surgery.

Dr Iqbal (MbChB(Bristol) I FRCA (UK) I FAZNCA) is an accomplished anaesthetist, specialising in orthopaedic trauma and regional anaesthesia. As head of the perioperative care team, she boasts extensive experience in perioperative best practice for medical and pain pathologies, derisking for improved patient outcomes, and interventional therapies, including spinal anaesthesia, for patients with complex pain.

Dr Chris Basten (ACPA | AACBT) is a hugely experienced clinical psychologist, with a career spanning three decades and positions in psychiatry and medical rehabilitation across  private practice, vocational rehabilitation and public hospitals. 

A graduate of UNSW and the University of Sydney, for the last 10 years, Dr Basten has focused on developing his own practice, and training psychologists and other health professionals in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and motivational interviewing .

He has designed and developed novel frameworks for pain management using CBT, with additional specialist foci on the treatment of depression and anxiety, disability, PTSD and serious illness.

Dr Abdul Haidary (FAFRM) is a graduate of the Universities of Sydney and Monash, the Royal Australian College of Physicians and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.

Dr Haidary has worked extensively in the fields of prehabilitation and rehabilitation, with specific interest in the perioperative medical care of orthopaedic patients.  

His specialisms include post joint replacement (rehabilitation of the spine, post hip and knee surgery) and post lower limb fracture care, multi-trauma (including amputation and osseointegration) medicine, and the treatment of progressive neurological disorders, including stroke, MS, MND and Parkinson's Disease. He is currently head of clinical training for rehabilitation registrars at one of Sydney's leading private hospitals.