Geelong Orthopaedics, VIC

BMedSci, MB,BS, FRACS (Orth), FAOrthA

Professor Page is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in shoulder, upper limb and hand surgery.

He is Chair of Orthopaedics at St John of God and Barwon Health, Director of Barwon Health and Convener of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Medicine at Deakin University. He is also an active teacher of medical students, registrars and Fellows as well as Director of the Barwon Orthopaedic Research Unit and the Fellowship Programme at Geelong Hospital in Victoria. He is a Member of the Specialist Reserve of the Royal Australian Navy, with numerous overseas and operational deployments.

Professor Page holds grants in trauma and upper limb research and has given invited lectures in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the USA and the UK as well as over 60 scientific papers at national or international level. He has published on new pathologies and their arthroscopic management in the shoulder, new techniques for treatment and a wide range of trauma and orthopaedic topics.

His research interests include outcomes of shoulder conditions and shoulder arthroplasty as well as biomaterials assessment and epidemiology. Professor Page is a reviewer for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, International Journal of Shoulder Surgery, Shoulder and Elbow and The Journal of Veterans and Military Health and is an associate editor for the Journal of Wrist Surgery.

Professor Page is past Chair of the Younger Fellows Committee of the Royal Australasian College Of Surgeons and recent Secretary of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia. He is a member of The Australian Hand Surgery Society and The Australian Orthopaedic Association and sits on the National Joint Replacement Registry Committee, coordinating the Upper Limb Arthroplasty section. Professor Page is also on the steering committee for the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry.

Professor Page was awarded a Zimmer Overseas Traveling Fellowship in 2000, the H J Windsor Prize In Orthopaedic Research by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2001 and was the European Travelling Fellow of The Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia and recipient of a Visiting Professorship award from the Association of Academic Surgeons of America in 2009. He has also been awarded the 2013 ASEAN Travelling Fellowship by the Australian Orthopaedic Association to foster professional orthopaedic relationships with ASEAN nations.