Professor Paul Smith is one of Australia’s most experienced and highly regarded hip and knee surgeons, having performed over 5000 hip and knee replacement procedures. He is an Honorary Professor at the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, Director of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Research Unit at the Canberra Hospital, and Orthopaedic Unit Director at the Canberra Hospital. He is also Director of the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry, and former chair of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (ACT Branch), and past Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (ACT Branch)

Professor Smith is widely recognised as a nationally leading orthopaedic researcher with over 160 peer reviewed publications and more than 100 conference presentations. He is a regular speaker at national and international meetings. He has supervised over 15 MPhil and PhD students in their higher degree studies. In the field of knee research alone Professor Smith has published over 40 journal papers. Professor Smith is the only Australian surgeon to have been awarded prestigious The Knee Society Insall Fellowship, receiving this fellowship award in recognition of his research in the area of knee kinematics. In 2016 Professor Smith established the Canberra Orthopaedic Research and Education (CORE) Foundation to provide support for research in orthopaedic surgery in the ACT. Professor Smith was awarded Fellowship of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) Research Foundation in 2018 and received the AOA Award for Orthopaedic Research in 2019.

In between his other commitments Professor Smith has a full time clinical role and is one of Australia’s most experienced hip and knee surgeons, having performed over 5000 hip and knee replacement procedures.

Professor Smith is passionate about community and has a major commitment through his role as one of the Directors of the John James Foundation. The John James Foundation is an independent broad based healthcare charity providing a range of programs and assistance to the people of Canberra and beyond https://www.jjf.org.au/