About Dr Cakic

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"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not to little and not to much, we would have found the safest way to health"

~ Hyppocrates

Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognise and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Denis Waitley
Dr Josip Cakic (aka. "Dr Chuck")
MD , PhD , FCS(SA)Orth , MMed(Orth)WITS

Languages: English, Croatian

MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS
  • M.D. School of Medicine, University of Zagreb , Croatia, 1989
  • FCS (SA) Orth WITS University, South Africa, 1998
  • MMed (Orth) WITS, WITS University, South Africa, 2000
  • PhD (Med) WITS, WITS University, South Africa, 2009

POSTGRADUATE DEGREES
MMed (Orthopaedic Surgery) Degree (27 June 2000)
Research Thesis: Do African Children with Slipped Capital femoral epiphysis Have metabolic bone disease?
(Accepted: 27 November 1997)

Philosophy Doctor (PhD) in Orthopaedic Surgery
(25 June 2009)
Research thesis: South African experience with cross-linked ultra high molecular weight polyethylene in total hip arthroplasty.
(Accepted: October 2003)
 
ASSOCIATIONS
  • SAOA – South African Orthopaedic Association
  • COTA – Croatian Orthopaedic and Traumatology Association
  • SAAS – South African Arthroplasty Society
  • AAOS – American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Affiliated international member)
  • ISHA – The Hip Preservation Society
  • SASMA - South African Sports Sports Medicine Association
  • SASHA - South African Society for Hip Arthroscopy
 
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
  • ISHA - The Hip Preservation Society (Formally: The International Society for Hip Arthroscopy)
    • Board of Directors (2010)
    • Chairman of Educational Board (2011)
    • Vice President (2016)
    • President (2017 - 2018)
  • SASHA - South African Society for Hip Arthroscopy
    • Founding member (2011)
    • President (2011 - 2015)
    • Treasurer (2016 - present)

CONSULTANCY
  • Consultant / Instructor / Lecturer - Smith & Nephew©
  • Consultant / Instructor / Lecturer - Medacta© International (Advanced Orthopaedics SA)
  • Consultant / Instructor - Arthrex© (Arthromedics)
  • Consultant / Lecturer - WISH (WITS Institute for Sports and Health)

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