Dr. Edward Oates holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), together with an Honours degree Psychology (B.Psych Hons), from University of Sydney, Australia. Starting his medical career in 2005 as an orthopedic surgical trainee in Sydney, Dr. Oates pursued further education and training in Germany, where he became a qualified orthopedic surgical specialist in 2017. Since 2018 Dr. Oates has been working in Germany as an Orthopaedic Trauma Surgical Staff Specialist in the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in the Diako Krankenhaus in Flensburg, Germany, a tertiary trauma referral hospital and academic teaching hospital of the University of Kiel (UKSH). His focus is on acute major trauma care with a special interest in complex articular knee and elbow injuries, reconstructive joint surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. Throughout his time in Germany, he also remained active in medical care in Australia as a Senior Team Leader in Emergency Medicine, supervising emergency assessments and patient management in regional and remote rural Australia. In 2020, he left this role due to Covid travel restrictions and took on the position of Assistant Medical Director of Trauma Services in the emergency department at the Diako Krankenhaus.