Dr. Kevin P. Singer

PhD, MSc[WAust], PT[Auck], PE[Otago]
Professor & Head
Email: K.Singer@cms.uwa.edu.au

Professor Kevin Singer heads the Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies within the School of Surgery at the University of Western Australia. This research Centre was established in January 2000 to complement opportunities for inter-disciplinary clinical teaching & research at UWA and across the teaching hospitals in Perth.

Dr Singer studied initially at Otago University, NZ, before undertaking Physiotherapy training in Auckland. In 1984 he moved to Perth to commence doctoral studies in the Department of Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA, investigating the pathomechanics of the thoracolumbar transitional junction. His thesis studies facilitated an active and sustained collaboration with colleagues within the WA Spinal Injuries Unit, and departments of Radiology, Bioengineering and Neuropathology at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) and the Medical Technology & Physics Dept, at the QEII Medical Centre.

He was the first physiotherapist elected to full membership of the Spine Society of Australia and, in 1996 was elected to active membership of the International Society of the Study of the Lumbar Spine [ISSLS]. Professor Singer was recently elected as an affiliate member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He has held editorial advisory board appointments with several inter-disciplinary journals including: Clinical Biomechanics, Manual Therapy, Journal of Musculoskeletal Research, JMPT, Disability & Rehabilitation and, recently, The British Journal of Sports Medicine.

He supervises several doctoral students investigating thoracic intervertebral disc morphology and biochemistry, non-invasive assessment of spinal deformation due to osteoporosis, biomechanical modelling of thoracic deformity, surgical outcomes, lumbar IVD deformation, and the pathoanatomy of the cervicothoracic junction.

Dr Singer has been editor and contributor to a three volume series: The clinical anatomy and management of back pain, published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford. This is an international textbook series with contributors representing the spectrum of fundamental and clinical sciences, spanning the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine regions. Dr Singer has contributed 15 textbook chapters and over 100 peer reviewed journal publications, with a similar number of conference presentations.

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