Dr. Carrie Kollias is Deputy Director of Orthopaedics at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and award-winning children’s author. She is a speaker and surgeon health researcher with experience leading national studies investigating wellness in Orthopaedic Surgery trainees and surgeons in both Canada and Australia. Carrie has a track record in leading transformation of workplace cultures and improving physician wellness. She speaks frequently on these topics as an invited speaker, and is a current MBA student with Imperial College London Business School.

She completed her undergraduate degree at University of Alberta, followed by Medical School and Orthopedic training at University of Calgary. She then went on to complete fellowships in Paediatric Orthopedics and combined Adult/Paediatric Limb Reconstruction (Limb Deformity) in Melbourne, Australia through Royal Children’s Hospital and various adult centres, where she acquired expertise in limb lengthening and deformity correction using Taylor Spatial Frame as well as other devices. Carrie is known as an innovator in systems and procedures and was the first surgeon in Canada to perform a leg lengthening using the ‘Precice’ lengthening nail (remote controlled) in 2014.