MD, FRCS (Ed), FRACS.
Professor of Orthopaedic
Surgery
University of Melbourne
The Royal Children's Hospital
Email: kerr.graham@rch.org.au
Kerr Graham is The University of Melbourne Professor of
Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory, and a
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at The Royal Children’s Hospital in
Melbourne. Professor Graham’s clinical
and research interests are principally in the area of cerebral palsy, clinical
gait analysis, clinical trials of spasticity management, and gait improvements
surgery for children with cerebral palsy.
In 1993 and 1995 his research team was awarded the Richmond
prize from the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine in
recognition of pioneering work in the use of Botulinum toxin A for the
management of spasticity in children with cerebral palsy. In 2001 he was awarded the John Mitchell
Crouch Fellowship, the highest research award from the Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons. In 2002 he received
the prize for the Best Basic Science paper at the Annual Meeting of the
Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA). He was awarded The King James IV Professorship
of The Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh for 2012/2013 and was recently
presented with the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental
Medicine (AACPDM) 2015 Mentorship award.
Professor Graham runs an active clinical and research
program through the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory at The Royal Children’s
Hospital, Melbourne. He has supervised 7
MDs and 9 PhDs to completion leading to an extensive publication of original
papers, review articles, and book chapters.
Between 2005 and 2009, Professor Graham was the Chief Investigator of
the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Clinical Centre
of Research Excellence in Gait Rehabilitation (NH&MRC CCRE), which led to
the publication of 11 book chapters and 160 papers. He is currently a Chief
Investigator of the NH&MRC Centre for Research Excellence in Cerebral
Palsy.
Professor Graham has developed a number of
patents including enhancement of longitudinal muscle growth in the hereditary
spastic mouse and in the development of novel software in clinical gait
analysis, the Movement Analysis Profile (MAP) and Gait Profile Score
(GPS). He has served as Visiting
Professor in the United States, Canada, South America, Southeast Asia, Europe
and the United Kingdom. He is a reviewer
for several journals including Bone and Joint, Developmental Medicine and Child
Neurology, Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Gait and Posture and the Journal
of Children’s Orthopaedics.