STAFF

Ian Harris

Professor Harris is the Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the South West Sydney Clinical School of the University of New South Wales and Honorary Professor at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney.

He is a medical graduate of the University of New South Wales and completed his orthopaedic surgical training with the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 1995, when he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He underwent further training in orthopaedic surgery in the Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich, and completed a 12 month Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Centre in Baltimore, Maryland. He holds a Master of Medicine in Clinical Epidemiology, Master of Science in Health Data Science and a PhD in Surgery. He is a member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Professor Harris’s research interests include surgical outcomes (such as predictors of general health, surgical success, and patient satisfaction), epidemiology, medicalisation, and research methodology.

Professor Harris has published over 400 peer-reviewed academic papers and two books for a general readership: Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo (2016) and Hippocrasy, How Doctors Are Betraying Their Oath (2021). He has supervised many PhD students, given over 100 invited lectures nationally and internationally and has been awarded research grants totalling over $60 million.

Justine Naylor

Justine graduated from The University of Sydney in 1987 with a Degree in Physiotherapy. She completed a PhD in Applied Physiology with the same university in 2002.

She has worked in the orthopaedic field as a researcher since 2003, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow within WORC. Her research interests include monitoring, measuring and optimising outcomes after knee and hip replacement surgery, and the identification of best models of care in orthopaedics.

Shirley Cross

Shirley Cross is the Academic Secretary and site liaison for the ACORN project.