Dr Papineau is a Perth raised orthopaedic surgeon who cares deeply about providing an individualised approach to patient care. He believes in treating the whole person and not just the condition and will work hard to optimise patient outcomes through both non-operative and surgical strategies.

Dr Papineau's secondary education was undertaken at Corpus Christi College. From then on he attended the University of Western Australia, graduating in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery with honours. He received the Goatcher award as Royal Perth Hospital’s intern of the year, and moved through residency into advanced orthopaedic training in Western Australia.

He has received a broad orthopaedic education but has always been drawn to lower limb surgery and orthopaedic trauma. Following completion of his surgical training, Dr Papineau worked in the hip & knee reconstruction and deformity correction unit at Royal Perth Hospital, and was then given the opportunity to undertake a further sub-specialist fellowship under the guidance of Professor Leo Pinczewski at the North Sydney Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Centre. Here he was able to focus on all aspects of knee surgery including joint replacement, ligament reconstruction and limb re-alignment procedures. He has returned to Royal Perth Hospital and Coastal Orthopaedics as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with a focus on orthopaedic trauma, limb salvage surgery and elective hip and knee surgery.

He is proud to be actively involved in supervising registrars through the public hospital system who are completing their advanced surgical training in orthopaedics through the Australian Orthopaedic Association.