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Mark Coates
Musculoskeletal Radiologist
Part time Christchurch Hospital, part time Christchurch Radiology Group since 2001
Clinical Lecturer University of Otago
MSK/MRI Fellowship with Drs Bill Breidahl and Steven Davis, Perth Radiological Clinic 2000/2001
Radiologist Combined Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Service Christchurch Hospital
Specialty Training - Auckland Radiology Training Programme 1995-1999
Medical Degree MBCHB University of Otago 1989
Russell C. Fritz, M.D.
Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Medical Director, National Orthopedic Imaging Associates, San Francisco, California

Dr. Fritz is a gradulate of Duke University and the Duke University School of Medicine.  He completed a surgical internship at Duke and then did his residency training and orthopedic imaging fellowship at UCSF.  He has been in private practice with National Orthopedic Imaging Associates in San Francisco since 1991.  He is widely recognized for his expertise in teaching and interpreting orthopedic MRI.   Dr Fritz has been a popular speaker at both radiology and orthopedic meetings for the past 20 years.  He has also authored more than 75 articles and book chapters on skeletal radiology.





Dr James Linklater  MB BS (Hons), B Med Sci,  FRANZCR

James trained at Concord, Royal North Shore and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals in Sydney before undertaking a musculoskeletal radiology fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York in 1997. He works in private practice as a musculoskeletal radiologist in Sydney with Castlereagh Sports Imaging at the North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre and is widely recognized for his expertise in musculoskeletal imaging and interventions. He was a member of the imaging team at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and was an imaging consultant to the AOC medical team at the Beijing Olympics. He is a consultant radiologist with the Asian Football Confederation and provides imaging for several professional sporting teams in Sydney. He has 23 publications in peer reviewed journals and has been a guest editor for Techniques in Foot and Ankle Surgery.  He has made numerous presentations at scientific meetings and is a clinical lecturer in sports medicine and anatomy at the University of New South Wales. Most recently, he was conveyor of the 2008 Australian Musculoskeletal Imaging Group (AMSIG) annual meeting. He has ongoing research interests in imaging of articular cartilage and foot and ankle imaging.


Clinton Pinto 

Clinton Pinto is a musculoskeletal radiologist.  He studied medicine and trained in radiology in Auckland. Following a two year fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, he spent two years working in Tauranga. He is a partner at Auckland Radiology Group and has a part-time appointment at Middlemore Hospital.

Clinton maintains an active interest in teaching both radiology and orthopaediac registrars. His professional interests are in musculoskeletal and  sports imaging, with particular interest in the imaging of bone and soft tissue tumours and MRI. He is a member of the New Zealand Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Registry and national Gaucher Disease advisory panel.


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