PROF . DE STEIGER RICHARD N

Professor Richard de Steiger is the Epworth Victor Smorgon Chair of Surgery, The University of Melbourne. He has a special interest in hip and knee joint replacement. He is President Elect of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries and is the Deputy Director of the AOA National Joint Replacement Registry.

Professor de Steiger obtained his FRACS in orthopaedic surgery in Melbourne in 1991 and studied for several years at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, United Kingdom and held a fellowship at the Inselspital Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. He was awarded his PhD from the School of Population Health at the University of Adelaide and he also holds a Diploma of Biomechanics from Strathclyde University, UK.

Professor de Steiger is an Orthopaedic Surgeon and has special interests within orthopaedics that include: Total Hip Replacement, Total Knee Replacement and Partial Knee Replacements, Complex Hip & Knee Revision Joint Replacements, Hip Arthroscopy, Knee Arthroscopy, Management of Osteo-arthritis in hips and knees, Joint Replacement infections.

Qualifications
MBBS Monash University, FRACS (Ortho), Dip. Biomechanics University of Strathclyde, PhD University of Adelaide

• Epworth, Victor Smorgon Chair of Surgery, The University of Melbourne
• Former Deputy Director, Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry
• Past President International Society Arthroplasty Registries