ProfRichardde Steiger
Orthopaedic Surgery
Subspeciality
Hip surgery, Knee surgery
Areas of Interest
Professor Richard de Steiger MBBS PhD FRACS FA OrthA is the Epworth, Victor Smorgon Chair of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, and was the Deputy Director of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, National Joint Replacement Registry for 17 years. . 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. Prof de Steiger’s current research interests include outcomes of joint replacement surgery, particularly periprosthetic joint infection, data linkage, robotic surgery and mechanisms involved in the cause of knee osteoarthritis. 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.
Appointments at
Consulting Location
Epworth locations
Qualifications
- MBBS Monash University
- FRACS (Ortho)
- Dip. Biomechanics University of Strathclyde
Education and Training
- Australian Orthopaedic Association - Vic/Tas Regional Training Committee
- Lecturer Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne
Research
- NHMRC Grant with Professor John Hamilton and Dr Andrew. Towards a rational strategy for osteoarthritis therapy
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant with Professor Mari Botti - The investigation of best practices for pain management in joint arthroplasty patients
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant with Professor Marcus Pandy, Chair of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne. Patient-specific computational tools for evaluating functional performance of total knee replacements in vivo
Professional Associations
- Deputy Director, AOA National Joint Replacement Registry
- Member, AOA
- Fellow RACS
- Member of International Hip Society
- International Society of Arthroplasty Registries
Clinical institutes
- Musculoskeletal Clinical Institute