Michael Austin
Dr Michael Austen is a Senior Medical Advisor working for the Elective Services Unit (ESU) of Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC. He is vocationally registered with the Royal NZ College of Urgent Care and is a Trainee in the Occupational Medicine Training program.   The Elective Services Unit handles all of the funding applications for ACC elective surgery. The clinical review of these applications is most commonly performed by ACC’s Clinical Advisory Panel (CAP). Dr Austen has a clinical leadership role with CAP.   ACC and the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA) have been working together to develop consideration factors that will be relevant to ACC-related surgery funding applications. Dr Austen has been involved in the development of these consideration factors.
Shoulder Injuries Concurrent Workshop Repeated Saturday, 16 August 2014 Start 8:30am Duration: 55mins Room 2 Start 9:35am Duration: 55mins Room 2 Shoulder consideration factors for ACC-funded elective surgery   CAP (on behalf of ACC) and the Shoulder and Elbow sub-committee of the NZOA have worked together over the past five years to agree on consideration factors for shoulder surgery. The importance of the history of the injury, the presence or otherwise of important radiological features and corroborative features for and against a traumatic cause are discussed.