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Professor Steven Faux

Specialties

  • Geriatric Rehabilitation
  • Pain
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Stroke

Professor Steven Faux is the Director of the Departments of Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and a conjoint academic at the University of NSW and the University of Notre Dame. He has authored over 70 journal articles and received the Ko Awatea International Excellence award for patient safety in evidence based guidelines for acute pain in the elderly. He leads a research team of 3 who support over 12 clinician researchers and has conducted Australia’s first data linkage study in trauma and rehabilitation, the largest international study on transplant rehabilitation and the first international RCT in polytrauma rehabilitation. His team authored Australia’s first RCTs in tele-rehabilitation for Chronic Pain and the first descriptive studies of post stroke spasticity in nursing homes, 7 day a week rehabilitation and the first international comparison study in concussion outcomes between Australia and Canada. As a foundation member of the National Facility for Human Robot Interaction Research at University of NSW, he has Australian Research Council grants for research in robotics for dementia, the use of unobtrusive sensors in falls prevention and the use of immersive (3D) virtual reality for stroke education and pain management.

He has appointments at:

  • St Vincents Campus
  • Eastern Suburbs Private Hospital, Randwick NSW
  • Griffith Base Hospital, Griffith, NSW
  • Forster Private Hospital, Forster, NSW

Currently a Professor in Clinical Medicine at the University of New South Wales, his research interests are in the use of technology in rehabilitation and pain management, trauma management and stroke rehabilitation. Doctors refer patients to him with the following conditions:

  • Strokes
  • Back and neck pain
  • Joint replacements
  • Fractures
  • Difficulties with walking
  • Difficulties in Self-care
  • Falls
  • Arthritis
  • Neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis

Dr Faux consults at Forster Private Hospital, in the Dolphin Suites.

Qualification
MBBSBA, FRACGP, FAFRM (RACP), FFPMANZCA
Gender
M
Dolphin Suites - Forster Private Hospital