Dr. Justin Paoloni

MBBS (UNSW), BSc(Med), PhD,
MSpMed, FACSP

Sports Physician
Conjoint Senior Lecturer UNSW

Dr Justin Paoloni is Sydney born and trained and graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1996.

Internship and residency was followed by four years accredited specialist training with the Australasian College of Sports Physicians which was completed in 2004.

Dr Paoloni is a qualified Sports Physician specialising in the non-surgical management of musculoskeletal injuries. He specialises in the management of tendon injury, major joint and muscle injury, joint injection and drainage, injury rehabilitation, osteoarthritis, and training
and injury prevention strategies for all sports.

He was the Sports Medicine Research Fellow at the Orthopaedic Research Institute at
St George Hospital from 2000-2004.

He has trained extensively in musculoskeletal medicine and sports injury management
completing a PhD thesis on the treatment of tendon injuries in 2003 (Achilles tendon, tennis
elbow, and shoulder tendon injuries) and has received numerous local and international
awards for his clinical research.

Dr Paoloni has also completed a Masters of Sports Medicine at the University of New South
Wales. He was appointed Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW in 2005.

He has a long history of sports team care. He has previously been the Co-Medical Director
for the Brisbane Broncos NRL Club and Medical Director of the Canberra Raiders NRL team,
the Wests-Tigers NRL team, Parramatta Rugby Union teams, and has toured with Australian sporting teams including the Australian volleyball team, and Australian soccer teams.

Justin is a keen sportsman who is a qualified grade 1 tennis coach, a current Amateur
League soccer player and Vice-captain of the Australian Medical Soccer Team, and an accomplished hiker who has trekked in Australia, South America, Central and North
America, Canada, China, Thailand, the Middle East, and Kyrgyzstan.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of New South Wales, 1996
Bachelor of Science (Medicine), University of New South Wales, 1996
Doctorate of Philosophy (Clinical Medicine) , University of New South Wales, 2003
Masters of Sports Medicine, , University of New South Wales, 2004
Fellow of Australasian College of Sports Physicians, 2004
Fellow of the Irish College of Science and Exercise Medicine, 2004

Awards

2003 St George Hospital Young Clinical Investigator of the Year
2004 Herodicus Society Fellowship from the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports
Medicine (AOSSM)
2004 Gold Medal from the NSW Sporting Injuries Committee for Outstanding Research Achievement in Science and Medicine in Sport
2006 excellence in research award from AOSSM
(American orthopaedic society of sports medicine)

Registration

The New South Wales Medical Board

Professional Memberships

Australasian College of Sports Physicians

Specific Areas of Interest

Tendon injury: Achilles tendon, patella tendon, wrist tendons, tennis elbow, shoulder
tendon dysfunction (rotator cuff)
Child and adolescent injury: “growing pains”, sporting injury
Shoulder and elbow injury: tackling injury, throwing injury, work/ overuse injury
Knee injury: acute sporting knee injury, overuse injury
Football injury: all codes- football, rugby union, rugby league, AFL
Joint Injection and Joint Drainage: shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, foot/ ankle
Injury Rehabilitation: sporting injury, overuse injury, work injury