Phong Tran is an orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne who specialises in hip, knee and shoulder surgery, and an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University. He has been Head of Orthopaedic Surgery at Western Health since 2010 and is Program Director of the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS), the research partnership between Victoria University, the University of Melbourne and Western Health. He also holds an adjunct professorship at Swinburne University of Technology and an honorary clinical appointment at the University of Melbourne.

At Victoria University he works with researchers in exercise science, physiotherapy and mental health on the care of people with hip and knee osteoarthritis. This work covers physical function and depression in people waiting for orthopaedic consultation and surgery, exercise before and after joint replacement, and the links between physical activity and osteoarthritis pain.

His surgical practice centres on anterior hip replacement, subvastus knee replacement and arthroscopy of the hip, knee and shoulder. He also performs hip labral repair, rotator cuff repair and shoulder replacement. He consults privately at the Specialist Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic, 166 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, and operates at St Vincent's Private Hospital and Adeney Private Hospital. Patient information about his practice is at phongtran.com.au.

His wider research covers enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and prehabilitation, surgical approaches in hip replacement, knee replacement alignment, femoroacetabular impingement, patient-reported outcome measures, and digital tools for patient education and consent. He has contributed to multicentre randomised trials including CRISTAL, CROSSFIRE and the Australian FASHIoN trial, and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers (ORCID 0000-0003-2405-2086).

He graduated MBBS (Hons) from Monash University in 1999, became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Orthopaedics) in 2008 and a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 2012. His awards include the 2024 Victorian Healthcare Award for Excellence in Value Based Healthcare for a regional approach to ERAS and prehabilitation, Western Health Researcher of the Year in 2024, the AOA Award for Orthopaedic Education in 2015 and the American British Canadian (ABC) Travelling Fellowship in 2014.