Background
Professor Christopher Vertullo is a specialist orthopaedic knee surgeon, with particular expertise in complex ACL & PCL reconstructions, computer aided total and revision surgery, minimal incision rapid recovery total & partial knee replacement, meniscal repair & preserving arthroscopy, advanced arthroscopic joint resurfacing/ 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 Past President of the Australian Knee Society, Deputy Clinical Director of the AOANJRR and an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University.
Prof Vertullo has a strong interest in researching knee conditions, founding Knee Research Australia in 2015. He has presented over 300 papers at local, national and international meetings, and has over 80 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
He has been a Basic Science Examiner for the College of Surgeons and an Instructor for the Australian & New Zealand Surgical Skills Education and Training. Prof Vertullo was the AOA-IOA Inaugural Traveling Fellow and Past Scientific Secretary of the Qld AOA, and is a past member of the ISAKOS Knee Arthroplasty Committee. Prof Vertullo was General Director and Treasurer of the Australia Orthopaedic Association in 2020-2023.
In 2016, Dr Vertullo won the best paper at the APKASS Annual Science Meeting in Hong Kong, for work undertaken at Griffith University on ACL Reconstruction. In 2016, Dr Vertullo's paper on Infection Prevention in ACL was the lead article in the leading European Knee Surgery KSSTA. He is currently listed among the top 100 orthopedic influencers in the world.
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.