Phong Tran is an orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne who specialises in hip, knee and shoulder surgery. He has been Head of Orthopaedic Surgery at Western Health since 2010 and is Program Director of the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS). He holds a clinical academic appointment in the Department of Surgery (Western Health) at the University of Melbourne, and adjunct professorships at Swinburne University of Technology and Victoria University.

His surgical practice centres on anterior hip replacement, subvastus knee replacement and arthroscopy of the hip, knee and shoulder. He also performs hip labral repair, rotator cuff repair and shoulder replacement. He consults privately at the Specialist Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic, 166 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, and operates at St Vincent's Private Hospital and Adeney Private Hospital. Patient information about his practice is at phongtran.com.au.

He graduated MBBS (Hons) from Monash University in 1999, became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Orthopaedics) in 2008 and a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 2012. He directs the orthopaedic fellowship program at Western Health.

His research covers enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and prehabilitation, surgical approaches in hip replacement, knee replacement alignment, femoroacetabular impingement, patient-reported outcome measures, perioperative blood management and thromboprophylaxis, and digital tools for patient education and consent. He has contributed to multicentre randomised trials including CRISTAL, CROSSFIRE and the Australian FASHIoN trial, and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers (ORCID 0000-0003-2405-2086).

He has served on the Australian Orthopaedic Association's Travelling Fellowship Committee since 2015 and chaired it from 2019 to 2023, and chaired the Victorian Orthopaedic Foundation from 2018 to 2023. His awards include the 2024 Victorian Healthcare Award for Excellence in Value Based Healthcare for a regional approach to ERAS and prehabilitation, Western Health Researcher of the Year in 2024, the AOA Award for Orthopaedic Education in 2015 and the American British Canadian (ABC) Travelling Fellowship in 2014.

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