Rate My Professor Christopher Birks

Birks' expertise encompasses orthopaedic surgery of the lower limb, including hip, knee, and ankle replacements, trauma and sports injury management, deformity correction, and arthritis surgery. He maintains special interests in knee surgery and foot and ankle surgery, as well as addressing orthopaedic complications of diabetes. Clinically, he serves as an Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Director at Dunedin Hospital and practices at Mercy Hospital Dunedin. Academically, he teaches in the Advanced Learning in Medicine (ALM) 5 program, supervises trainee interns, and provides instruction to orthopaedic trainees. Birks is actively engaged in professional leadership, holding roles such as Foot and Ankle Representative and Secretary for the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA), where he has also served on the ACC and Third Party Liaison Committee and convened pre-examination courses for trainees in Dunedin. His memberships include the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, New Zealand Orthopaedic Association, New Zealand Knee and Sports Surgery Society, New Zealand Foot and Ankle Society, and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He has contributed to scholarly work, including the publication 'The Use of Multimedia as an Adjunct to the Informed Consent Process for Ankle Surgery' in 2012 and a case report on 'Simultaneous multiple tendon ruptures complicating a seizure in a haemodialysis patient' in 2005.