Meet the team

Dr Drynan is an adult and paediatric shoulder, elbow and knee surgeon, who grew up on a dairy farm in Queensland and completed his Mechanical Engineering and Medical degrees at the University of Queensland. After graduating Medical school and working throughout Queensland, he completed two years of Orthopaedic training in Queensland, and then the final two and a half years in Sydney. He was awarded Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 2019, through an accelerated timeframe, just over 4 years.

Dr Drynan completed multiple subspecialty Fellowship training obtaining the skills to deal with multiple complex orthopaedic conditions. 

• Hand Fellowship, Royal North Shore Hospital, 2018
• University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada, Upper Extremity Fellowship, 2019-2020
• sports and arthroplasty knee fellowship, 2020-2021. 

During his time in Canada, he was awarded the Teachers Chair Award for greatest contribution to teaching by a Fellow, published text book chapters and scientific articles. Here he worked with Dr Christian Veillette, Dr Timothy Leroux and Dr Ryan Paul, covering conditions from the finger tip to medial clavicle. During his knee fellowship with Dr Bu Balalla and Dr David Broe, he obtained skills in managing complex knee conditions, performing primary and revision procedures and publishing academic works.

Dr Drynan is an upper extremity and knee Visiting Medical Officer at the Children's hospital Westmead and has admitting rights at Westmead Private, North Shore Private and Mater Hospitals.

Dr Drynan spends his free time with his lovely family in Sydney.

The updated calendar for teaching events is being updated. Teaching is paramount for the team. Educating patients, the community, general practitioners and orthopaedic trainees and medical students is a primary focus for the team. 

Organised education events are organised through Westmead, North Shore and the Mater Hospitals