Professor Paul Norman AM
BSc MB ChB DS FRCS FRACS
Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Professor of Vascular Surgery The University of Western Australia
CTEC Platinum Convenor
Professor Paul Norman is a Vascular Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and an Emeritus Professor of Vascular Surgery at The University of Western Australia.
His main area of research interest is abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) including epidemiology, screening, natural history, biomarkers, genetics and studies of pathogenesis. He was the lead investigator of the Western Australian trial of screening for AAA (1996-2004) which involved the randomisation of ~40,000 men. Other areas of research interest include: the epidemiology of peripheral arterial disease, the pathogenesis and clinical consequences of diabetic arterial disease (particularly High Risk Foot) and the assessment of cardiovascular risk.
Since 1996 he has (with various collaborators) received multiple NHMRC project grants as well as funding from NIH and the Wellcome Trust. He held an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship in 2007-11. He has published over 220 peer-reviewed papers.
Professor Norman taught clinical aspects of vascular disease and surgery in general to medical students and convened numerous advanced and trainee level CTEC workshops in vascular surgery.
In 2022 Professor Norman was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia for his contributions to medicine in the field of vascular surgery.