A/Prof Barry Rawicki

Associate Professor Barry Rawicki is a Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Melbourne in 1978 and his specialist qualifications in rehabilitation medicine in 1985.

Barry was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Monash University in 1999. He was the Medical Director of Paediatric Rehabilitation for the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service at Monash Children's Hospital from its inception in 2007 until 2024. He was medical head of the Monash Health Clinical Gait Analysis Laboratory at Kingston Centre from 2005 until 2024 and was medical director of rehabilitation for Epworth Rehabilitation Brighton until 2022. He continues in active public and private clinical practice and remains active in teaching.

His main clinical and research interests are in spasticity management and gait analysis. He was involved in much of the pioneering work in Australia in the use of both botulinum toxin and intrathecal baclofen in spasticity management. His other clinical, research and procedural interests are in chronic neurology and pain management. He has published numerous papers and two book chapters in these areas.