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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Nicholas Anastas was born in Fremantle in June 1933 the son of Constantine Nicholas Anastas, greengrocer and Mary (nee) Kanganas. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney qualifying MB BS with honours in 1959. He was a junior Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital from 1960-61 and Senior General Resident Medical Officer at that hospital 1961-62. Nick joined the Royal Perth Hospital staff as a General Surgical Registrar 1962-64. He obtained his FRCS(Edin) in 1965 and was appointed Senior Orthopaedic Registrar 1965-67. Nick was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Royal Perth Hospital and the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in 1968. Nick Anastas performed the first Harrington's instrumentation for scoliosis in Western Australia and was early in the field of developing expertise in lower limb joint arthroplasty. He was co-author of a paper with Professor Byron Kakulas "Muscle Response to Trauma ". In 1965 Nick married and he and his wife have two sons one is an Ophthalmologist and the other an Orthopaedic Technician. Outside of medicine Nick has an interest in horse racing and is a keen collector of wines. Nicholas Anastas retired from the staff of the Royal Perth Hospital in 1999 and in recognition of his service to the hospital over a period of 31 years he was appointed Emeritus Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon. |
