Prof. Richard Page

Professor Richard Page is an orthopaedic shoulder and upper limb surgeon living and working in Geelong, Victoria. He was appointed as Foundation St John of God and Barwon Health Chair of Orthopaedics at Deakin University in 2014. He is Director of Orthopaedic Research at Barwon Health, the Barwon Centre of Orthopaedic Research and Education (B-CORE) and Medical Director of the Barwon Health Bone Bank. He has been co-awarded over AUS$3.5M in research / educational grants and teaches medical students, registrars, surgical fellows and supervises higher degree students. He regularly presents invited lectures nationally and internationally. He has over 150 publications, is Specialty Editor for the ANZ Journal of Surgery, Associate Editor for the Journal of Wrist Surgery and reviews for multiple journals.

Prof Page is on the steering committee for the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry (VOTOR), the Advisory Committee of Medical Devices for the TGA and is a Past Deputy Director to the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) National Joint Replacement Registry (AOANJRR). He is Board Member and Scientific Secretary for the AOA, Board Member for the Victorian Orthopaedic Research Trust (VORT), President of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia (SESA) and Co-Chair of the International Shoulder Arthroplasty Consortium (ISAC).

Prof Page holds grants and awards from Deakin University, the Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Foundation, the Victorian Orthopaedic Research Trust, St John of God Hospital Research and AFL Research. Research interests include outcomes of shoulder and wrist surgery, upper limb osteoarthritis and joint replacement surgery, biomechanics and a range of trauma and fragility fracture outcome topics.

He manages two lab-based research programmes, the first investigating biofilms and biomarkers in prosthetic joint infections in orthopaedics, the second focussed on the genetics and potential intervention biomarkers in painful musculoskeletal conditions in a human shoulder model. He is a teacher of medical students, registrars, surgical fellows, as well as PhD and Honours completions with two PhD and three Masters students under supervision.