Professor Richard de Steiger MBBS PhD FRACS FA OrthA is the Epworth, Victor Smorgon Chair of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, and for 17 years was the Deputy Director of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, National Joint Replacement Registry.
He completed his fellowship training in orthopaedic surgery in Melbourne and studied for several years at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, and was an AO fellow in Bern, Switzerland.
He was awarded the prestigious ABC Travelling Fellowship in 1998 and obtained his PhD in the School of Public Health, Adelaide University in 2018.
He has previously been Director of Orthopaedics at Royal Melbourne Hospital and was the inaugural Chair of the Musculoskeletal Institute at Epworth Healthcare and was instrumental in setting up both undergraduate and postgraduate training in the private sector.
His current research interests include outcomes of joint replacement surgery, particularly periprosthetic joint infection, data linkage, computer navigation and robotic surgery and mechanisms involved in the cause of knee osteoarthritis.
Prof de Steiger has been influential in disseminating data from Joint Registries to inform surgeons, other health care professionals, governments, orthopaedic companies, and the general community. This has had a marked beneficial influence on the outcomes of joint replacement and has resulted in large cost savings to Government.
He has published over 180 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters with recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association. He has given over 300 International and National peer-reviewed presentations with 78 as an invited plenary speaker. His papers have over 6100 citations, his H-Index is 39, and he has received over $20 Million in grant funding.
He has been a member of innumerable committees over many years and has been President of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries, the Girdlestone Society and is an active member of the International Hip Society.
He is happily married to Mandy for 35 years with two adult boys and in his spare time still plays in a rock band.
Affiliations: Department of Surgery, Epworth Healthcare, VIC, Australia / University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
