Professor Richard de Steiger Orthopaedic Surgeon

An orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in hip and knee joint replacement and the management of adult hip disorders. Professor de Steiger is an orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in hip and knee joint replacement and the management of adult hip disorders. He is the Epworth, Victor Smorgon Chair of Surgery, The University of Melbourne and the former Deputy Director of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, National Joint Replacement Registry (AOANJRR) since 2007. 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.