Adam
Culvenor

Adam Culvenor is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre in Melbourne, where he heads the Knee Injury Research Group, and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow. A physiotherapist by training, he completed his PhD in rehabilitation science at the University of Queensland in 2015 and has worked in teaching and research at universities in Australia, Norway and Austria.

His research follows people from the moment of a knee injury, through recovery and return to sport, and for many, into the early onset of osteoarthritis. Using imaging, his early work showed how quickly osteoarthritis can appear in the first years after an ACL injury. He now leads large clinical trials aimed at preventing it, including SUPER-Knee, co-leads the international OPTIKNEE consortium and leads the Australian Knee Injury Study.

His work has been funded by NHMRC early career and emerging leadership fellowships and recognised with a Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Award, the American Journal of Sports Medicine most outstanding paper award, Sports Medicine Australia’s best clinical sports medicine paper award three times, and the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s Best New Investigator award twice.