Richard S. Page

Prof Page is Academic Chair of Orthopaedics at Deakin University and Barwon Health and Director of Orthopaedic Research University Hospital Geelong and St John of God Hospital. He is founder and Director, Barwon Centre for Orthopaedic Research and Education (B-CORE) and is a specialist shoulder, upper limb and trauma surgeon. Prior to this he served for ten years in the Royal Australian Navy with active service in Somalia and Indonesia.
He has authored over 300 referred journal articles, book chapters on shoulder, elbow and joint replacement surgery, and given over 180 scientific papers at a national or international level. He has appeared on television and radio discussing shoulder and related orthopaedic care. Research interests include outcomes of shoulder replacement surgery, biomaterials and upper limb biomechanics, as well as orthopaedic trauma. Prof Page has been a collaborator on published Delphi Consensus guidelines in shoulder arthroplasty, rotator cuff surgery and joint replacement infections. He has extensive clinical trial experience in investigator initiated and multicentre trials and is current CI on 3 open RCTs. Research support awarded of $20.1M ($7.6M NHMRC funded) for investigator-initiated studies and educational programmes.
Positions held include past Scientific Secretary and Director for the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Clinical Advisor to the AOA National Joint Replacement Registry. President of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia (SESA), Chair of the Victorian Orthopaedic Foundation (VOF) and programme lead for the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry (VOTOR). He serves as International Faculty to the AO Trauma Foundation and is national Board member to the Asian Shoulder and Elbow Association (ASEA).