Professor Kerr Graham is research Group Leader at Murdoch Childrens, a 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 runs an active clinical and research program through the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He has supervised six MDs and seven PhDs to completion leading to an extensive publication record in terms of original papers, review articles and book chapters. Between 2005 and 2009 Professor Graham was a Chief Investigator of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Clinical Centre of Research Excellence in Gait Rehabilitation. In 2014 he became a Chief Investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in 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 and 2013.

Orthopaedic and Cerebral Palsy