Paul Mitchell is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis and a Strategic Advisor to the Board and Management of Osteoporosis New Zealand.

Since 2005, Paul has developed programmes to improve fragility fracture care and prevention throughout the world. This includes initiatives at the global, regional and national level to implement the Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) model of care. Paul has published and presented extensively on implementation of FLS and was a co-author of the 2012 International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) World Osteoporosis Day Report on the IOF Capture the Fracture® Programme.

Paul serves on the Editorial Boards of Osteoporosis International and Archives of Osteoporosis and contributes as a peer reviewer to several esteemed journals, including Public Library of Science One and BMJ Open Quality.

In 2016, he was awarded the IOF President’s Award in recognition of his contribution to the global activities of IOF. In 2024, Paul was a recipient of a Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) Lifetime Achievement Award.