Associate Professor Paul Miniter is a highly trained and experienced orthopaedic surgeon. 

His medical training started at Sydney University and continued to Royal North Shore Hospital where he was an intern and then resident. He then moved on towards Orthopaedic Surgical training and spent time at various hospitals in Sydney, Canberra, Taree and Wagga Wagga.

After completing surgical training in the Sydney Orthopaedic training scheme and placing at the top of the class in Australasia, he went on to advanced training in Edinburgh, Italy and the USA.

A/Prof Miniter has continued to excel and works hard to ensure that his surgical techniques and knowledge base is current and that it represents the best available. He attends Orthopaedic meetings regularly, and strives at all times to provide current and professional medical opinion and surgical procedures.

He takes his surgical abilities overseas to Africa pro bono where he works in conjunction with Professor Marco Lanzetta. In Machakos, he runs surgical services with Professor Lanzetta, dealing with a large array of Orthopaedic conditions in the poorest of communities. 

A/Prof Miniter has operated in many other countries including Switzerland, Italy, Indonesia, Iran, the USA and UK. This enriches his overall knowledge, allows regular exposure to alternative techniques and is a tremendous method of ongoing education.

A/Prof Miniter is part of the Faculty of Health Services at the University of Canberra. He is involved in teaching of students, exercise physiology department and is moving towards integration of the current orthopaedic service at Avalon Orthopaedic with the multidisciplinary Faculty of Health Services. Research is conducted via the Faculty.