Dr. Buckland has completed extensive training in Spinal and Orthopaedic Surgery through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He was awarded the Victorian Training Committee’s Annual Registrar’s Prize in 2013. Dr. Buckland completed a Fellowship in Spinal and Spinal Deformity Surgery at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City.
Dr. Buckland’s surgical expertise relates to adult deformity, pediatric and adult scoliosis, degenerative diseases, trauma, tumor and infections of the spine. Dr Buckland also offers Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery (MISS), and Cervical Disc Replacement for correctly indicated patients.
Dr. Buckland is actively involved in research in degenerative diseases of the spine, and spinal deformity through the Spine Research Center at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, and with the International Spine Study Group (ISSG). Dr. Buckland has authored and published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles locally and internationally, and has presented his research at numerous international professional meetings, and is a reviewer on several peer-reviewed medical journals.
Dr. Buckland’s interest in Surgical Education is evident by his award as the President of the Australian Orthopaedic Registrars Association, and service on the Board, and Federal Training Committee of the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 2012-13.
