Professor Kerr Graham

contact details

Professor Kerr Graham
Gait Lab & Orthopaedics
Royal Children's Hospital
Flemington Rd
Parkville
Victoria 3052
Australia

T +61 3 9345 5399
E kerr.graham@rch.org.au

biography

Professor Graham is internationally renowned for his clinical research and in particular his resarch into the combination of orthopaedic surgery and Botulinum Toxin to improve walking in children with cerebral palsy.

He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences. Kerr has twice been awarded the prestigious Richmond Prize for the best paper presented to the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine and in 2001 won the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship - the highest research award of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

In 1994 he was recruited from the United Kingdom to be Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Melbourne and was responsible for establishing the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory at the Royal Childrens Hospital. He is Chairman of the Research Advisory Committee of the Australasian College of Surgeons and the Victorian Orthopaedic Research Trust and Associate Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He has supervised 5PhD and 5MD students to completion and is presently supervising another 4. His research is particularly notable for its translation into clinical practice.

His seminal paper on the use of botulinum toxin for patients with cerebral palsy was published in 1994 - this intervention is now considered a standard treatment option for this condition in most of the developed world. He is presently Chairman of the Worldwide Advisory Board for Botulinum Toxin in the Management of Children with Cerebral Palsy.

This year he has been invited to lead a specialist study day "Lower limb surgery for children with cerebral palsy" at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.