With a mission to rescue, treat, rehabilitate and reintegrate Ukrainian citizens affected by conflict, the UNBROKEN project operates from Lviv’s National Rehabilitation Centre. The NRC provides reconstructive surgery, orthopaedic medicine and prosthetics to adults and children in need.
Since February 2023, Professor Dr Al Muderis has been a proud ambassador of the project’s work. He has continued to support the staff and patients of the National Rehabilitation Centre, travelling to Lviv to provide hands-on surgical support as recently as Spring 2024.
Born in Iraq, the country and its people hold a special place for Professor Dr Al Muderis. Since fleeing the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party, Professor Dr Al Muderis has returned to Iraq seven times to deliver aid to the victims of conflict in the region.
Delivering complex limb reconstruction and osseointegration surgeries to those in need of specialist treatment and rehabilitation, he has also worked to provide training and technical support to the country’s next generation of orthopaedic surgeons, ensuring that they can continue to provide care where its needed most in his absence.
During his latest trip to the country, in 2023, he provided care to more than 150 patients.
A vocal advocate for human rights, and particularly for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, Professor Dr Al Muderis has channelled this passion through his ongoing work with renowned humanitarian organization, Amnesty International.
Having previously delivered the annual Amnesty International Human Rights Lecture, Professor Dr Al Muderis continues to integrate his humanitarian beliefs into his everyday medical practice, and uses his regular media and public speaking engagements to both inform and educate his audiences.
Professor Dr Al Muderis has been an ambassador for the Australian Red Cross for almost a decade. During that time, he has used his skill, expertise and reputation to promote the work and ethos of the organisation and help improve the experience of vulnerable and displaced people in Australia.
Having experienced the asylum process in Australia first-hand, Professor Dr Al Muderis works now to address public misconceptions and dispel myths around asylum seekers and the asylum process.
Noteworthy among his activities as ambassador, are those undertaken with television channel SBS for the screening of Go Back to Wear you Came From, a showcase for the realities of mass human migration and its effects, and one of the most ambitious live television events ever.
Now more than 30 years old, the non-profit Asylum Seekers Centre was founded as a place of welcome and support. Its dedicated team of professional staff and volunteers work together to connect people to support and services, engage the community and influence policy and legal change.
Across 2023-2024, the organisation has provided almost 10,000 hot meals, helped more than 200 families enrol their children in education and supported more than 150 people into employment.
The Children’s Surgical Centre of Cambodia, located in Phnom Penh, is committed to the provision of ethical, accessible medicine to all.
Reliant on donations, it provides free or low-cost surgery to Cambodian citizens living with serious health challenges, and works with international surgeons and other volunteers from across the globe to ensure that the staff working there have the confidence and expertise to tackle a wide range of conditions.
In the context of this partnership, Professor Dr Al Muderis has travelled to Cambodia to deliver education and training in limb reconstruction and osseointegration to the centre’s surgical staff, and has successfully completed osseointegration free-of-charge on patients who would otherwise have been unable to access care.
In addition to his other humanitarian work, Professor Dr Al Muderis has advised directly on Australian national refugee and asylum policy.
His experience, and understanding, of the Australian asylum system, and how it might be improved and sustained into the future, has been captured in an influential parliamentary report, entitled “Beyond the Boats: Building an Asylum and Refugee Policy for the Long Term”.
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Professor Dr Munjed Al Muderis is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in osseointegration, hip, knee and trauma surgery. He is a clinical professor at Macquarie University and The Australian School Of Advanced Medicine, a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Chairman of the Osseointegration Group.