MYTHS AND FACTS ON HIPS IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

Reflections on this episode:

Professor Susan Stott is a Professor of paediatric orthopaedic surgery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and paediatric orthopedic surgeon at Starship Children’s Hospital in New Zealand.

Professor Stott was the second President of the AusACPDM and was the only New Zealand investigator on the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence: Australasian Cerebral Palsy Clinical Trials Network hosted at University of Queensland.

She is the clinical lead of the New Zealand CP register and on the reference group of the newly formed Neurodevelopmental Network, under the auspices of the Paediatric Society of New Zealand. She therefore has the ability to translate key research findings into clinical practice through strong alliances with key stake-holders within the health sector.

In terms of general citation indices, her work has been cited 1546 times and h index 34. She has received the Gillies medal from the NZ Orthopaedic Assoc. for best paediatric orthopaedic research paper in 1998 and again in 2008. In 2018, she was the AusACPDM Transformative Practice Award Winner and also received the prestigious Presidential Award, New Zealand Orthopaedic Association