Port Macquarie Private Hospital
Part of Ramsay Health Care

Port Macquarie Private Hospital specialist Stuart Kennedy

Dr Stuart Kennedy

Orthopaedic Surgeon

Stuart C. Kennedy, MD, FRACS

Dr. Kennedy is an orthopaedic surgeon who has an interest in shoulder and upper limb surgery. He graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine with Honours and completed his Orthopaedic Residency at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington D.C. He practiced general orthopaedics and sports medicine at Western Orthopaedics in Denver, Colorado as full partner before moving to Australia in 2004.


He is now Director of Training for the Orthopaedic Trainees at Port Macquarie Base Hospital on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales. He is also a Clinical Instructor at the University of NSW Medical School at Port Macquarie. He teaches and lectures regularly at local and international meetings.

Dr. Kennedy’s interests involve complex disorders of the shoulder; including arthroscopic treatment of rotator cuff disease and shoulder instability. He has performed over 1000 allarthroscopic rotator cuff repairs. He also performs shoulder arthroplasty including total shoulder replacements and reversed shoulder replacements.

Dr. Kennedy is an American Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon, Fellow in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and a member of the Australian Shoulder and Elbow Society.

Dr. Kennedy’s interests involve complex disorders of the shoulder; including arthroscopic treatment of rotator cuff disease and shoulder instability.