Background
Professor Christopher Vertullo is a Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon whose practice is exclusively focused on knee surgery. He has particular expertise in complex ACL & PCL reconstructions, complex total knee and revision surgery, rapid recovery knee replacement, meniscal repair & preserving arthroscopy, cartilage restoration and joint preserving ostetomy. Since returning to the Gold Coast from Fellowship training in the United States, he has performed over fifteen thousand knee procedures, and been involved in the treatment of elite athletes, amateur and professional sports teams.
Career
He is a Fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australian Orthopaedic Association, a Past President of the Australian Knee Society, Clinical Director of Clinical Studies and Data Analytics at the Australian Orthopaedic Association, and an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University.
Dr Vertullo has also made significant contributions to surgical education and professional leadership. He has been actively involved in teaching and examining surgeons in training, and has held a number of leadership positions within national and international orthopaedic organisations and currently holds membership with the ISAKOS, ACL Study Group and APKASS.
Dr Vertullo has a strong research interest in knee conditions, founding Knee Research Australia in 2015. He has presented extensively at local, national, and international meetings, and has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals. His work has been recognised internationally, including the Best Paper Award at the APKASS Annual Scientific Meeting for research on ACL reconstruction, and publication as the lead article in KSSTA on infection prevention in ACL surgery. He is currently listed among the top 100 orthopaedic influencers worldwide. For details of his research publications please follow see here.
Education
Professor Vertullo is a proud Gold Coaster, having been raised and educated locally. He studied medicine at the University of Queensland. After becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian of College of Surgeons, he spent 2 years in further training at the University of Toronto and Duke University, North Carolina. Professor Vertullo holds a PhD in Knee Replacement outcomes.