Summary
Professor Peter Steadman gained his Medical Degree from the University of Queensland in 1986. He undertook and completed his orthopaedic training in Queensland, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 1995 and a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 2000.
Clinically from 1998 to 2000, he was the Director of Orthopaedic surgery and now since is a Visiting Specialist at both the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Children’s Hospital Queensland. He is a Senior Medical Officer with Queensland Health continuing after 34 years.
Appointed as an Associate Professor in Orthopaedics of the University of Queensland from March 2008, he became a Professor in August 2020. He is currently in private practice in Brisbane, and a senior visiting specialist at both the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Queensland Children’s Hospital.
He is on two charitable boards, Australian New Zealand Sarcoma association (ANZSA), and chairman of the Queensland Orthopaedic Research fund institute.
He has been a federal Director and in 2013, the federal Treasurer of the Australian Orthopaedic Association’s governing body. Currently, he is an international board member and World Vice Chair of Education of the International Society of Limb Salvage (ISOLS.COM) based in Vienna Austria. In September 2021, he becomes the President elect and president in 2023.
He has a Master CIME accreditation which is certification for the use of the AMA Guides from the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME). He is an international ambassador of the ABIME group.
Currently, he is the Chief Medical Officer of the Medhealth group in Australia that specializes in independent medical advice, disability employment and NDIS services across the country.