Professor Steven Faux is the Director of the Departments of Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and a Conjoint Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of NSW and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine the University of Notre Dame. He has authored over 70 journal articles and received the Ko Awatea International Excellence award for patient safety in developing and translating evidence based guidelines in acute pain management for the elderly. He was a finalist in the NSW Premier’s Award for the development of an integrated rehabilitation service. Professor Faux has conducted the first Australian RCT in tele-rehabilitation for Chronic Pain, the first international RCT in polytrauma rehabilitation and the first examination of pain profiles in asylum seekers and refugees held in detention. He is a foundation member of the National Facility for Human Robot Interaction Research at University of NSW and has obtained a number of Australian Research Council grants to conduct research in robotics in cognitive impairment, the use of unobtrusive sensors in falls prevention and the use of immersive (3D) virtual reality for stroke education and rehabilitation. 

Professor Faux has conducted research in brain injury in Canada as a visiting Professor at McGill University and Montreal General Hospital and maintains active research collaborations in France, the UK and India. He holds executive committee appointments on the NSW Pain Network, then National Stroke Coalition, the Australian Stroke Registry and the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation. 

He is a passionate advocate for refugee health, anti-discrimination and the rights of the disabled.