About.
Clinical.
General Practitioner, Capalaba General Practice,
1987-1992
General Practitioner Inala Health Centre General Practice,
1992-2005
Musculoskeletal Medicine Practitioner, Milton, 2005
General and Musculoskeletal Medicine Practitioner, Daisy Hill, 2005-2013
General and Musculoskeletal Medicine Practitioner, Arana Hills Medical Centre, 2013 to present
Academic.
Associate Lecturer, Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in General Practice, University of Queensland,
1987-2005
Associate Professor in Primary Health Care, Griffith University, 2005 -2017
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Griffith University, 2017-2023
Convenor and tutor of the Certificate in Musculoskeletal Medicine for the Australasian Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine,
2017-2023General Practice Training Supervisor, General Practice Training Queensland,
2002-2022
Service.
Australian Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine – from 1992 to present has served as Secretary, Vice-president and as President on the management committee and as Journal Editor and Education Officer
Examiner for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners from 1990 to 2016
GP representative on Medicare Review of
o Diagnostic Imaging item numbers - 2017 – 2018
o Orthopaedics item numbers – 2016 to 2017
o Imaging for low back pain - 2014 to 2015
GP representative on Australian Committee for Quality and Safety in Healthcare for
o Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standards Working Group – 2021 to 2022
o Knee Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standards – 2015 to 2016
o Knee pain expert advisory group – 2014 to 2015
Languages other than English.
Michael is fluent in German, moderately competent in Indonesian and can conduct basic level medical consultation in Spanish. In his past practice in Inala, he provided medical care in a Spanish Interpreter clinic for 11 years and a Vietnamese interpreter clinic for 5 years.
Interests outside of medicine.
When not at work, Michael likes to keep busy with a broad range of interests including the languages mentioned above, rainforest gardening and Early Music of the 15th to 17th century Europe.
He plays a range of Early Music Instruments including the cornetto, the serpent , several types of recorders and crumhorns.
He is a longstanding member of the Genuine Renaissance Rubber Band and the Brisbane Monteverdi Ensemble. He also loves to play the euphonium and occasionally to sing as a tenor.
He and his wife, Carmel, enjoy films, TV dramas and eating out together and have been the proud owners of five lovely whippets over a thirty year period.
Research.
Michael Yelland has published over one hundred papers in scientific journals and has given over 80 conference papers and posters, with a strong emphasis on the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal pain.
His PhD thesis was based on a randomised clinical trial on the use of prolotherapy injections and exercises in the treatment of chronic low back pain and since then he has completed randomised clinical trials on the use of prolotherapy injections and exercises for Achilles tendinosis and tennis elbow.
He also has a strong research interest in the diagnosis and management of thoracic spinal pain and musculoskeletal chest pain.