Professor Sam Adie
BSc(Med) MBBS(Hons) (UNSW); MSpMed (UNSW); MPH (UNSW); PhD (UNSW); FRACS(Ortho); FAOA
Sam Adie is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UNSW. Sam has had a long association with the university, completing his undergraduate Medical degree, a Masters of Sports Medicine, a Masters of Public Health, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)- all at UNSW. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australian Orthopaedic Association, then completed three clinical/research fellowships at the University of Toronto (Canada), the University of Oxford (UK), and Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. He practices at St. George (public and private) and Sutherland hospitals.
Sam's research interests focus in the clinical effectiveness of orthopaedic/musculoskeletal interventions: systematic reviews, clinical trials, and clinical registries. He also has a particular interest in the scientific quality and reporting of research publications. Sam has been awarded ~$12million in research funding, and is an investigator on a series of clinical trials in orthopaedics, including the first large randomised registry nested trials with the Australian National Joint Replacement Registry.
Sam supervises both undergraduate (Independent Learning Project) students, as well as higher degree students. He is also current Chair of CLEAR (Critical Literature Evaluation and Research), a mandatory clinical epidemiology course offered to trainees of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
Web:
www.drsamadie.com.au
www.orthotrauma.com.au
www.stgeorgesportsmed.com.au
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
NHMRC 2023 Partnership Projects PRC2 June 2024
AI, Project title: “Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to improve perioperative care
for Older PeoplE (COPE)”
$A1449962.50
Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation Apr 2024
CI, Project title: "Reducing Opioids After fracture Discharge: a Randomised Trial"
$A400,000
Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation Apr 2024
CIA, Project title: "Early Pain Intervention in Knee replacement (EPIK): A registry nested trial"
$A399,052
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Apr 2024
Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Grant
CIA, Project title: "Early Pain Intervention in Knee replacement (EPIK): A registry nested trial"
$A 2,154,577.23
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Feb 2024
Clinician Researchers Initiative Grant
CIA, Project title: "Early Pain Intervention in Knee replacement (EPIK)"
A$1,467,744.83
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
CI, Project title: “Responsible Opioid use for Hip and knee ArthropLasTy (OpioidHALT) study.
A$1,479,940.39
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Clinician Researchers- Jan 2023
Nurses Midwives and Allied Health Grants
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
CI, Project title: “Responsible Opioid use for Hip and knee ArthropLasTy (OpioidHALT) study.
A$1,479,940.39
Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) Grant Nov 2022 – Nov 2027
National Health and Medical Research Council
Associate Investigator, Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network
AU $2,500,000
College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing Strategic Research Pilot Grant May 2022
Project title: “Exploratory investigation of novel brain biomarkers for predicting chronic postsurgical pain”
AU $9,783 over 6 months
Avant Foundation Grant September 2021
Project title: “Responsible pre-operative Opioid use for Hip and knee ArthropLaTty (OpioidHALT): pilot study with embedded qualitative study”
AU $100,046.10 over 2 years
Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trial Network August 2021
(ANZMUS)
Project title: “Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Bolster Analgesic Effects of Exercise in Knee Osteoarthritis”
AU $20000
The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise December 2020
(SPHERE) Musculoskeletal Clinical Academic Group, Blue Sky Initiative
Project title: “Efficacy of pain management approaches in the subacute period following knee or hip arthroplasty”
AU $15000
Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trial Network October 2020
(ANZMUS)
CIA, Project Title: A partial meal replacement program for weight loss prior to knee or hip arthroplasty: a feasibility study
AU$10,000
The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise May 2020
(SPHERE) Musculoskeletal Clinical Academic Group, Blue Sky Initiative
CI, Project title: “Acceptability of opioid tapering: perspectives from a pre-arthroplasty
cohort versus chronic pain cohort
AU$10,000 over 1 year
Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Foundation Grant Aug 2019
CI, Project title: “DISTINCT: Dual mobility versus standard total hip arthroplasty
in femoral neck fractures, a cluster randomised trial
AU$30,000 over 3 years
Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Foundation Grant Aug 2019
CI, Project title: “Rates of Persistent Wound Drainage in Patients Receiving Aspirin or
Low Molecular Weight Heparin as Venous Thromboembolic Event Prophylaxis for Total
Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty”
AU$1,400 over 1 years
Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Foundation Grant Aug 2019
CI, Project title: “Individual patient data meta-analysis: Operative vs. non-operative
treatment for adult distal radius fractures
AU$10,000 over 3 years
The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise Feb 2019
(SPHERE) Supporting Leading Better Value Care (SLBVC) Grants Scheme
“Raising the bar in hip fracture care – a win for everyone”
AU$147,248 over 2 years
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Jan 2018
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Scheme: Lifting Clinical Trials and Registries Capacity
CI for “CRISTAL: Cluster Randomised Trial of Aspirin versus Low molecular weight
heparin for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in joint replacement
surgery, a registry-nested study” (APP1152285)
AU$910,700.60 over 4 years
Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Foundation Grant Jun 2010
Investigator, Project title: “Combined Randomised and Observational
Study of Surgery for type B Ankle Fracture Treatment (CROSSBAT)
AU$35,337.50 over lifetime of project
Medical Postgraduate Scholarship Jan 2010
National Health and Medical Research Council
AU$81,000 over 2.25 years
Sir Roy McCaughey Research Fellowship Jan 2009
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
AU$180,000 over 3 years
Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association Young Ambassador Fellowship, representing Australia 2018
AOA Emerging Leader, 2019
My Research Supervision
- Independent Learning Project Students
- Masters Student
- PhD Student
My Teaching
Faculty Member, RACS Critical Literature Evaluation and Research (CLEAR) Course