Associate Professor David J Graham

Associate Professor David Graham is an Australian-trained orthopaedic surgeon specialising in adult and paediatric hand, wrist and microsurgery.

Dr Graham consults privately on the Gold Coast at Mudgeeraba Hand Clinic and operates privately at John Flynn Private Hospital, Pindara Private Hospital and Gold Coast Private Hospital. He is also a Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgeon at Gold Coast University Hospital and Queensland Children’s Hospital.

Associate Professor Graham graduated from The University of Queensland (UQ) with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours), before completing his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at UQ. After working as a junior doctor in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast, he undertook advanced training in Orthopaedic Surgery in New South Wales.

Following completion of his orthopaedic training, Dr Graham completed a Hand, Wrist and Microsurgery Fellowshipat Royal North Shore Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney. He then undertook further international hand surgery fellowships at Ganga Hospital (Coimbatore, India) and with the University of California, Irvine / Shriners Hospital Los Angeles / Children’s Hospital of Orange County (USA). He has also travelled to Japan and Spain to work with and observe leading international hand surgery professors.

Prior to returning to Queensland, Dr Graham worked as a consultant hand, wrist and microsurgeon at the Sydney Hospital Hand Unit and the South Western Sydney Hand Unit (Fairfield Hospital).

Dr Graham has a strong commitment to teaching and research and has been awarded the title of Associate Professor at both Griffith University and The University of Queensland. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in orthopaedic and hand surgery and regularly presents at local, national and international hand surgery conferences. He is also a co-founder of the not-for-profit research group Australian Research Collaboration on Hands (ARCH), established in collaboration with A/Prof Brahman Sivakumar, which supports high-quality collaborative research in hand and wrist surgery across Australia.

In 2018, Dr Graham was selected for the prestigious Australian Hand Surgery Society (AHSS) / American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) Travelling Fellowship, visiting the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), Hospital for Special Surgery (New York, NY), Curtis National Hand Center (Baltimore, MD) and the Rothman Institute (Philadelphia, PA). In 2023, he was again selected for the combined AHSS / British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) Travelling Fellowship, visiting Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, University College London, Morriston Hospital (Swansea), Royal Glasgow Infirmary, St John’s Hospital (Livingston) and the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.

Dr Graham is actively involved in international orthopaedic outreach, with a focus on delivering high-quality care while supporting sustainable education and training for local surgeons and trainees. These trips are undertaken in collaboration with the Australian Hand Surgery Society, American Society for Surgery of the Hand – Touching Hands Project, Orthopaedic Outreach, and AUSNEP, and have included missions to Nepal, Cambodia, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati.

In recognition of his ongoing commitment to outreach and humanitarian work, Dr Graham was awarded the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) Humanitarian Award in 2025.