Associate Professor Barry Rawicki is a physician in rehabilitation medicine and now runs a busy private practice in mostly adult rehabilitation in St Kilda.

He is currently the Medical Director of Paediatric Rehabilitation for the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service at Monash Health and Monash Children’s Hospital.

Appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Monash University in 1999, he was Head of Rehabilitation for Southern (now Monash) Health from 1997 until 2005.

A/Prof Rawicki was the Director of the Spinal Rehabilitation Unit at Caulfield General Medical Centre from 1988 until 1995, and Director of Neurology Rehabilitation at Caulfield from 1991 until 1995.

He was Medical Director of St John of God Nepean Rehabilitation from 2005 until April 2007.

A/Prof Rawicki retired as head of rehabilitation for Epworth Rehabilitation Brighton in June 2020, and was the medical director the Clinical Gait Assessment Service (CGAS) for Monash Health from 1999 until 2020.

The inaugural president of the Victorian Brain Injury Recovery Association, A/Prof Rawicki has held numerous positions with the Australasian Faculty Rehabilitation Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, including leading registrar training and Chairman of the Board of Continuing Education.

A/Prof Rawicki has expertise in chronic neurology, including stroke management and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury and disease, and acquired brain injury.

He is an expert in spasticity and spasticity management, having pioneered the use of Botulinum Toxin for spasticity management in Australia, as well as chronic pain and pain management.

He has published more than 35 papers and two book chapters in these and other areas, and has attends meetings and conferences in Australia and around the world to present papers about these topics.

He was appointed consultant emeritus at Epworth Hospital in December 2020 and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to rehabilitation medicine in June 2021.