ProfessorIan Cameron

Ian Cameron is a Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine and has the Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, at the University of Sydney. He is a clinician researcher.

Current research themes are injury, rehabilitation and disability; specifically disability and health in older people, musculoskeletal injury in compensable settings, and catastrophic injury (associated with severe long-term disability).

Ian works as a senior academic with the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research which is located in the Kolling Institute, Northern Sydney Local Health District and Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. This Unit has a focus on injury-related disability and rehabilitation. It conducts clinical, epidemiological and implementation research. It has interdisciplinary staffing and also provides educational programs.

Concurrent with his academic position Ian holds Senior Staff Specialist positions at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital and Southern NSW Local Health District.

Ian is Associate Editor of the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine and Senior Editor of BMC Geriatrics. He has a number of educational roles in the Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australian and New Zealand and Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians).

Ian has been a member of Grant Review Panels of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, and the New Zealand Health Research Council, over a number of years. 

A further role is providing expert advice to Australian and State Governments, other semi-government organisations including the NSW Lifetime Care and Support Authority, Area Health Services and other organisations. This advice relates to injury management, rehabilitation programs, and health services for older people and people with disabilities.