Staff profile

Professor Hylton B Menz

NHMRC Senior Research Fellow

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Allied Health
Department of Podiatry

Health Sciences 3, Level 2, Room 215, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BPod(Hons) LaTrobe, PhD UNSW

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Podiatry Association, Osteoarthritis Research Society International, Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society

Area of study

Ageing and aged care
Podiatry
Rehabilitation Studies

Brief Profile

Professor Hylton Menz is a podiatrist who graduated with first class Honours and the University Medal from La Trobe University in 1993, and completed his PhD focusing on gait patterns, balance and falls at the University of NSW in 2002. He is currently a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Fellow, and Leader of the Lower Extremity and Gait Studies Program at La Trobe University. Professor Menz’s broad research disciplines are human movement, rehabilitation and rheumatology, with a particular focus on musculoskeletal foot problems in older people. His research extends from laboratory-based biomechanical studies through to analysis of epidemiological datasets and the conduct of clinical trials. Professor Menz has published over 160 papers in podiatry, gerontology, rheumatology and biomechanics journals, and he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research. He has won several awards for his research, including the Young Tall Poppy Award by the Australian Institute for Policy and Science, the La Trobe University Excellence in Research Award, first prize in the British Medical Association Book Awards for his textbook Foot Problems in Older People: Assessment and Management, and a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to Harvard University. Professor Menz’s current research focuses on the epidemiology and management of foot disorders in older people, with a particular emphasis on osteoarthritis.

Research interests

Foot Disorders

- Biomechanics of the ageing foot and ankle

- Epidemiology of foot disorders in older people

- Optimising footwear and orthoses for older people

- The contribution of obesity to foot pain

Gait and balance

- Falls prevention in older people

- The effect of foot posture on lower limb biomechanics

Recent Publications

Books

Menz HB. Foot Problems in Older People: Assessment and Management. Churchill Livingstone / Elsevier, 2008. (link)

Lord SR, Sherrington C, Menz HB, Close JCT. Falls in Older People: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention. (2nd ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Book chapters

Morris ME, Huxham F, Menz HB, Dobson F, Piriyaprasarth P, Fok, P, Iansek R, Miller K. Optimizing Movement and Preventing Falls in Parkinson’s Disease: Strategies for Patients and Care-Givers. In: Trail M, Protas E, Lai E. Neurorehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease: An Evidence-Based Treatment Model. Slack, Inc., 2008. p.177-186.

Menz HB. Assessment of the older person. In: Yates B (ed). Merriman’s Assessment of the Lower Limb. (3rd ed.). London: Churchill Livingstone / Elsevier, 2008. p 441-466.

Menz HB. Foot problems in older people. In: Markides SK (ed). Encyclopedia of Health and Aging. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2007. p. 224-227.

Papers in refereed journals

For a complete list, follow this link to PubMed.