a/prof angela evans

PhD, FFPM RCPS (Glasg), Dip App Sc (Pod), Grad Dip Soc Sc (Child Devel)
Adjunct Associate Professor
Discipline of Podiatry I School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport  
La Trobe University I Victoria I 3086 I Australia

Angela Evans AM is an Adelaide based clinician, Adjunct Associate Professor at La Trobe University, Visiting Professor at University of Barcelona, Postgraduate qualifications include: FAAPSM, post-graduate diploma in social science, PhD by thesis investigating paediatric leg pain, Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, APodA paediatric credential, Harvard University climate change/health certification.  

Publications include: 110 peer-reviewed journal articles, Cochrane Library systematic reviews for non-surgical intervention for paediatric flat foot (2010, 2022), podiatry textbook Paediatrics, monograph series Evidence Essentials, and various book chapters.

A/Prof Evans is a Board Director of the Australian Podiatry Association, and also AnglicareSA, where she Chairs the Advancement and Philanthropy committee. 

Angela has volunteered with clubfoot projects in Vietnam, and since 2008 in Bangladesh, using the Ponseti corrective method. Walk for Life Clubfoot, in Bangladesh, has treated over 32,000 children with congenital clubfoot deformity. Further volunteer history includes: National Medical Education Scientific Council and Medical Education Scientific Advisory Council of Diabetes Australia; Scientific Committees of 1998, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2019 (Chair) Australasian Podiatry conferences; Medical programs at Olympic Games 2000, Special Olympics World Winter Games 2005, Commonwealth Games 2006, Clinical Director of Special Olympics National Games 2010; Global Clubfoot Initiative, Oxford.

Angela Evans won the 2016 BMJ South Asia Healthcare Award for Excellence in Delivery of Primary Care with Walk for Life Clubfoot. In 2019, Angela received an Australian National Honour, as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

A/Prof Evans has great interest is the nexus between research and clinical practice, so that paediatric patients receive best available evidence-based care, averting overdiagnosis and associated wastes. 

Most recently, Angela has initiated Green Podiatry, in response to the global healthcare and climate change crisis. Current collaboration with University of New South Wales Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) microrecycling science, involves preliminary and exploratory recycling and reforming of used orthotics into materials and products for new use – the Green Foot Orthoses Project (GFOP).