HAND & UPPER LIMB
SHOULDER
FOOT & ANKLE
LIMB LENGTHENING & RECONSTRUCTION
ORTHOPAEDIC KNEE SURGEON
Dr. Edwin Dillon
MBChB, MMed (Orthop), FC Orth (SA)
ABOUT
Dr. Edwin Dillon is a Knee Surgeon. He is based at the Medi-Clinic Winelands Orthopaedic Hospital.
In 2006 he completed his MMed in Orthopaedic Surgery (cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch. He also successfully completed the FC ORTHO (SA) examination from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. He then joined Dr. PJ Erasmus in private practice at the Mediclinic Winelands Orthopaedic Hospital and in 2009 moved on to solo practice also at the Mediclinic Winelands Orthopaedic Hospital.
Dr. Dillon is still actively involved in research and has authored and co-authored several research papers. He has also presented papers at local and international meetings.
Dr. Dillon is also the founding member of The Joint Venture Trust which is a non-profit organization that performs knee replacement surgery for under-privileged patients referred from the Tygerberg Hospital waiting lists. To date 80 of these life-changing procedures have been performed.
Dr. Dillon has taken part in many running, swimming, cycling, mountain biking and triathlon events, including two successful Ironman races.
He is married to Chardri and they have two children, Sarah and Daniel.
PROFILE
| HPCSA Number | MP0489166 |
| Practice Number | 0280000259403 |
| 1997 | MBChB, Stellenbosch University |
| 2006 | FC Orth (SA), Colleges of Medicine |
| 2006 | MMed (Orthop), Stellenbosch University |
- 1992-1997: Alec Brook Bursary
- 1992, 1993, 1995: Stellenbosch University Merit Awards
- 2005: South African Orthopaedic Association research grant
- 2006: Antoon de Klerk award: best final year registrar in Orthopaedic Surgery, Stellenbosch University
- 2006: Synthes Award: best research thesis in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stellenbosch University
- 2008: South African Orthopaedic Association research grant
- Connect and collaborate with Dr. Dillon on ResearchGate.
2006
- Patellofemoral Research Society meeting, Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 2006. Dillon EM, Muller C, Scheffer C, Erasmus PJ, de Villiers R. “Differential forces in the proximal patellar tendon as an explanation for the characteristic lesion of patellar tendinopathy”.
- Combined meeting of the South African Knee Society and Belgium Knee Society, Sports Science Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2006.Dillon EM. “The role of arthroscopy in osteoarthritis of the knee”.
2007
- 6th Biennial meeting of the International Society of Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Florence, Italy, May 2007. Dillon EM, Muller C, Scheffer C, Erasmus PJ, de Villiers R. “Differential forces in the proximal patellar tendon as an explanation for the characteristic lesion of patellar tendinopathy”.
- 29th IEEE EMBS Annual International Congress, Lyon. France. August 2007.Van Schalkwyk C, Scheffer C, Dillon EM, Erasmus PJ. “Goodness-of-fit determination of femoral knee prosthesis using computer segmentation”.
2008
- Annual meeting of the South African Knee Society, Stellenbosch, September 2008.Kosel J, Dillon EM, Erasmus PJ, Scheffer C. “Distal femoral articular surface is a single radius“.
- Annual meeting of the South African Knee Society, Stellenbosch, September 2008. Dillon EM. “The anatomy of the posterior meniscus and its relation to the neurovascular structures”.
- Annual meeting of the South African Orthopaedic Association, Cape Town, September 2008. Dillon EM, Scheffer C, Erasmus PJ. “Concentric exercise causes greater tensile load than eccentric exercise in the patellar tendon, an in-vivo study”.
2009
- Annual meeting of the South African Knee Society, Drakensberg, August 2009. Dillon EM. “Biomechanics of the patellofemoral joint”.
- Annual meeting of the South African African Orthopaedic Association, Drakensberg, August 2009. Dillon EM. “Anatomy and pathology of patella dislocations”.
2010
- 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2010). D.J. Van Den Heever, C. Scheffer, P.J. Erasmus and E.M. Dillon “Contact stresses in a patient-specific unicompartmental knee replacement”, 31 August – 4 September 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, p. 5113 – 5116.
- 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2010), 31 August – 4 September 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, p. 5105 – 5108. J.H. Muller, C. Scheffer, P.J. Erasmus, E.M. Dillon and A. Elvin, “Comparison of Two Commercial Patellofemoral Prostheses by means of Computational Modeling”.
2012
- 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society(EMBC 2012). D. Van Den Heever, C. Scheffer, P.J. Erasmus and E, Dillon, “Development and testing of patient-specific knee replacements”, 28 August – 1 September 2012, San Diego, USA, p. 4875 – 4878.
- South African Orthopaedic Association
- South African Knee Society
- International Society of Arthroscopic and Knee Surgery
- Colleges of Medicine of South Africa: Fellow of the College of Orthopaedic Surgeons of South Africa
- European Society of Sport Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA)
- Personalised Arthroplasty Society
CONTACT
Institute of Orthopaedics and Rheumatology
CONSULTING HOURS
Monday – Thursday
08:00 – 12:00
13:00 – 16:00
Friday
08:00 – 12:00
KNEEDOC
CONSULTING HOURS
Monday – Thursday
08:00 – 12:00
13:00 – 16:00
Friday
08:00 – 12:00