Associate Professor Michael Vagg is a specialist pain medicine physician and a rehabilitation physician. He graduated from Monash University in 1994 and spent several years as a uniformed medical officer in the Royal Australian Air Force before undertaking vocational training.
He is a director of Pain Matrix, a private comprehensive pain service in Geelong, clinical director of rehabilitation and pain services at Epworth Geelong and a clinical senior lecturer at Deakin University Medical School.
He writes regularly for The Conversation as a health and medicine columnist. His areas of clinical interest include soft tissue pain, postamputation pain and interventional pain treatments.