Ian D. Cameron

Ian Cameron is a Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine and has the Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine, Sydney Medical School, 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 is the Head of 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 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 Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians) and the University of Sydney Medical Program. Ian has been a member of the Grant Review Panels of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, and the New Zealand Health Research Council, for a number of years. He is a Board member of a disability studies organization.