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A/Professor Jenny Alison
DipPhty, MSc (Lond), PhD
Jenny is an Associate Professor in Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy, Discipline of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. She teaches in the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs in physiotherapy. Jenny is also a clinical specialist physiotherapist in Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Jenny coordinates the Master of Health Science (Physiotherapy) Cardiopulmonary Major, University of Sydney and offers a distance education unit of study in Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Jenny is the Chair of the joint committee of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and the Australian Lung Foundation that developed the web-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Toolkit. Her research interests include interventions to improve exercise capacity and quality of life in people with lung disease; and physical therapies (including exercise) to improve mucus clearance.
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Asst. Professor Craig Allingham
F.A.S.M.F.
B.App.Sci(Physio), Grad.Dip.Sport Sci., Cert. Men’s Hlth.
APA Sports Physiotherapist
Craig achieved professional qualifications in physiotherapy (1978), sports science (1982) and men’s health (1997). Along the way he has been awarded a fellowship with the Australian Sports Medicine Federation and recognition as a Sports Physiotherapist with the Australian Physiotherapy Association. Previously a co-ordinator of the Griffith University Masters of Sports Physiotherapy program, Craig is now an adjunct Assistant Professor at Bond University.
His work has included clinical practice, elite team practice including selection in three Australian Olympic Teams, sports science consultant, corporate speaking and consulting on issues of time management, personal health management, life planning and success planning.
Craig has now been obliged to cease clinical practice due to a combination of physical degeneration and ‘empathy-gland’ fatigue. He remains a keen advocate of Men’s Health, Quality in Practice and motorcycle touring. His book ‘Book More Clients’ is a valuable tool for practitioners and he is currently writing on Men’s Health. He and his wife Mary share 6 grown children and live on the Sunshine Coast.
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Ruth Barker
PhD, MA (Aboriginal Studies), Grad Dip Ed, B App Sc Physio
Ruth Barker is the senior lecturer in neurological physiotherapy at James Cook University in Townsville. Ruth’s research interests lie in the area of stroke and spinal cord injury and in the delivery of services for people in rural, remote and indigenous communities of Australia. For part of her career, Ruth spent four years working in Aboriginal education in New South Wales and eight years working in Aboriginal health in remote communities of the Northern Territory. During this time, Ruth was instrumental in the development of the ‘Nose Blowing Program’, a population strategy to address the high rate of chronic respiratory disease found in Aboriginal children from remote communities of central Australia.
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Kim Bennell
Since completing her PhD in 1996, Prof Kim Bennell has made a major contribution to musculoskeletal research in Australia and internationally. Her current position is Director of the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine at the University of Melbourne.
Kim’s research focuses on conservative management of musculoskeletal conditions including osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and shoulder pain. Kim’s national and international status is reflected by 45 invited multidisciplinary conference presentations including 21 keynote/plenary, 143 peer-reviewed original research articles, 22 review papers of which 14 were invited, 2 text books and 18 invited book chapters in international texts.
Kim has received numerous awards for her research excellence including in 2004, the Australian Society for Medical Research Amgen Award for outstanding achievement in translational research. She is a reviewer for international granting bodies and is an editorial board member of 5 international journals. She is on the Board of Directors of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International.
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Dr David Berlowitz
David Berlowitz is a research physiotherapist at the Institute for Breathing and Sleep and the Victorian Respiratory Support Service (VRSS) at Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia. He worked as a cardiorespiratory physiotherapist in many of Melbourne’s private and public sector hospitals before moving into clinical research, particularly in chronic disease, respiratory and sleep medicine. He helped establish and was the first physiotherapist for the VRSS and he was also the first Coordinator of the Northern Clinical Research Centre at the Northern Hospital.
David’s current research includes chronic disease management and evaluation, sleep and breathing in quadriplegia and the use of non-invasive ventilation in both Motor Neurone Disease and Obesity Hypoventilation. His research in these areas includes animal models of disease, epidemiology, upper airway mechanics and physiology, functional and structural imaging, clinical trials of therapy, health economic evaluations and knowledge translation. David holds a clinical post-doctoral fellowship and leads the multinational Sleep Health in Quadriplegia research program, both supported by the Victorian Neurotrauma Foundation.
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A/Professor Julie Bernhardt
Julie is a researcher and experienced clinician working at the National Stroke Research Institute (NSRI) in Melbourne where she is the Director of the Very Early Rehabilitation Research Program, the main aim of which is to develop and implement evidence-based rehabilitation interventions to reduce the significant burden of stroke related disability. A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT), the largest, international, multicentre acute stroke rehabilitation trial (which will include over 2000 stroke patients), is at the core of this program.
Julie holds an appointment in Neuroscience within the School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, and is a recipient of the National Heart Foundation Career Development Award. Julie is recognised as a world leader in early rehabilitation stroke research.
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Fiona Blyth
Dr Fiona Blyth is a public health physician and epidemiologist at the University of Sydney Pain Management and Research Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital and at the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, Concord Hospital, both in Sydney, Australia. She has been involved with large-scale population studies on the size and impact of chronic pain in the community; she has ongoing studies in this area, and has more recently focussed on pain in older people, psychosocial factors and pain, and clinical trials of complex multi-disciplinary interventions for chronic pain. She has academic appointments at the University of Sydney and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), where she was the inaugural James C Petrie Fellow in 2006.
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Dr Robert Boland
Rob Boland is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, with 24 years of clinical experience in private practice, public hospitals, and for the Royal Australian Navy.
He is an Independent Physiotherapy Consultant for Workcover NSW, and is a Specialist Clinician at Fairfield Hospital NSW. He also holds academic and research positions and he has a long-standing interest in evidence based practice, particularly with regard to management of musculoskeletal injuries.
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Anna-Louise Bouvier
Anna-Louise Bouvier’s unique Physiocise practice’s, on Sydney’s North Shore and at the Sydney Football Stadium teach over 900 a week how to fix their backs in classes which combine specific, functional exercise with education. She employs 14 physiotherapists.
She was a keynote speaker at the World Congress of Low Back and Pelvic Pain in Barcelona in 2007 and has consulted to the NSW Rugby Union for the last 9 years.
She wrote the best selling Fix Your Back (ABC Books) is a journalist for Life etc magazine(ABC Publishing) is a regular with James Valentine (ABC radio), wrote and recorded the Qantas Comfort Zone series on all Qantas planes, and has been named Australian Fitness Presenter of the Year. She is a highly sort after public speaker in the corporate arena. Her passion is applying evidence based practice to a consumer setting.
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Lynne Brodie
Lynne is a paediatric nurse with qualifications in paediatrics, developmental disability, project and nursing management and a BA in psychology. The greater part of her nursing career was spent at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, first at Camperdown and then at Westmead.
In 2004 she became Network Manager for the NSW Transition Care initiative funded by the Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce. The Transition Network aims to improve services state-wide for young people moving from paediatric to adult health care.
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Pauline Brooks
Pauline has a background in Physiotherapy and has been promoting ‘health for life’ throughout her career. She is currently working as a Consultant and Trainer in the area of Physical Activity, Health, and Active Ageing. She has worked nationally and internationally for Governments, Corporate and Community organizations to help people maximize their potential through health promotion and education programs.
Pauline was appointed by the State Government as Chair of the State Physical Activity Council of South Australia (2005-2007).
Pauline co-authored and is a Master Trainer for the Easy Moves for Active Ageing® - EMAA program which she conducts on behalf of Active Ageing Australia.
In 1995 Pauline received the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to the health and fitness of the community, in 2001 she received a Recognition Award for Distinguished Service from the Australian Association of Gerontology and in 2003 received the Centenary Medal for her services to older people.
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Professor Wendy Brown
Professor Wendy Brown is Professor of Physical Activity and Health in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. Wendy's principal research interests are in the links between physical activity, sedentary behaviour, weight gain and public health; the promotion of physical activity and healthy weight (including prevention of weight gain); and the measurement of population levels of physical activity and sitting time.
She has conducted intervention trials with women from non-English speaking backgrounds and with mothers of young children and was one of the lead investigators on the '10,000 steps Rockhampton' project - a multi-strategy intervention project which sought to activate the 60,000 residents of Rockhampton in Central Queensland. More recently her intervention work has focused on the role of physical activity in the prevention and management of chronic disease in the baby boomer generation. Over the last ten years Wendy's work on the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health has focused on identifying the determinants of inactivity and weight gain in women, and on dose-response relationships between activity and health outcomes. The role of sitting time in as an independent determinant of weight gain, and the links between sitting time and chronic health problems are emerging as areas of critical enquiry in Wendy's research program.
Professor Brown's work in the area of understanding and influencing physical activity and sedentary behaviour in populations is widely published in the international scientific literature, and has been used to inform the development of evidence-based policy and practice in the Australian government and non-government sectors.
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Jane Butler
DipPhty,GradDipAppSci(PaedPhty),MEd. Jane has been a lecturer in physiotherapy at the University of Sydney for 23 years. She co-ordinates the undergraduate, graduate entry masters and coursework masters programs in paediatric physiotherapy.
She has a particular interest in evidence based practice. This interest has led to her current PhD studies in determining what evidence is available for physiotherapy interventions in cerebral palsy.
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Lawrence Caruana
In 1987 Lawrence graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. In 2003 he was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Business Management from QUT, and in 2007 he enrolled in Masters in Philosophy (research) through the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. His research interests include Electrical Impedance Tomography and outcome measures in Intensive Care.
In 2006 Lawrence was invited to join the inaugural Physiotherapy faculty at the Queensland Health Skills Development Centre where he facilitates a number courses using simulation as practical teaching tool. He has developed close ties with the University of Queensland and Griffith Universities where he assists in delivering the Cardio-Respiratory components of the curriculum. Queensland Health recognised Lawrence by appointing him to the role of Advanced Clinical Practitioner in 2007.
Lawrence is a member of the Critical Care Research Group of The Prince Charles Hospital, on the Queensland Health Fatigue Management Committee and an Associate member of ANZICS. He is an active member of the APA and is the current treasurer of the CRPA (Qld).
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Sally Castell
Sally is a Physiotherapist, recreational therapist and fitness leader. She has over 38 years experience in the Health / Fitness industry with vast work experience in rehabilitation centres, hospitals, community settings and retirement centres in the UK and Australia.
She is currently Physical Activity Coordinator for the Northern Sydney part of the Northern Sydney Central Coast Health Promotion Unit (part time) as well as conducting her own exercise business
Over the years she has worked on 8 research projects involving the planning and implementation exercise programs related mainly to the aging population involving issues such as community exercise programming, falls prevention, depression and strength training
Sally’s overall take home message is that exercise is possible and necessary for all ages and abilities.
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A/Professor Pauline Chiarelli
Associate Professor Chiarelli is currently the Program Convener of the Bachelor of Physiotherapy Program at the University of Newcastle where she has played a major role in the development of the undergraduate program. Since 1994 she has been involved in research related to the prevalence and management of urinary and faecal incontinence in women and is a research associate with the Australian Longitudinal Women's Health Study.
She is an invited member of the Advisory Committee of the National Continence Management Strategy and sits as a consultant on various associated working parties. Since 1994 she has been awarded a number of research grants and has 40 papers published in the peer reviewed scientific journals including the prestigious British Medical Journal, many invited publications and twelve chapters in edited texts. Her publication for the lay press “Women’s Waterworks” is recognised as an international “best seller” with 200,000 copies sold internationally.
Invitations to teach in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong and New Zealand are testament to her international standing as a leading researcher in her field. She is an active member of the International Continence Society and the International Urogynecology Association and she has presented the results of her research both nationally and internationally in Korea, New Zealand, UK , USA, and Italy. Pauline was a founding member of the executive committee of the Australian Continence Foundation and has played a major role in promoting continence within the Australian population for almost 30 years.
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A/Professor Lindy Clemson
Lindy is an Associate Professor in Ageing and Head of Discipline (occupational therapy) at the Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Sydney. She is a specialist in public health research and an occupational therapist with a PhD in epidemiology. Her specific focus is on the physical environment, functional capacity and adaptation, daily life activity, enabling participation and preventing falls with older people.
She has conducted several randomised trials in the area of falls prevention with NHMRC project grant funding. She has contributed to the validation and development of functional assessments for older people related to ageing in place, and more recently conducted implementation research exploring issues of sustainability of fall prevention initiatives. Her falls prevention intervention Stepping On has attracted US CDC funding with collaborators at the University of Madison, Wisconsin to investigate its development for the US context. Lindy has over 40 publications, with more than half of these on falls prevention, and has produced several practical manuals providing frameworks for practice. She developed the first assessment procedure for identifying fall hazards in the home. This assessment, currently considered a gold standard, is used by numerous universities and clinical settings nationally and internationally.
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A/Professor Jacqueline Close
A/Professor Jacqueline Close is a Geriatrician at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney where she runs the Falls, Balance and Bone Health Service. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and is currently undertaking a number of clinical risk factor and intervention studies including understanding risk of falls in people with cognitive impairment, medications and medical conditions in falls and the role of vascular integrity in falls.
She is the Chair of the Falls Advisory and Implementation Gp at the POWH and has a particular interest in translational research whereby evidence is taken from the research setting and applied to the intended populations.
She is a co-author along with Stephen Lord, Cathie Sherrington and Hylton Menz of the popular book – Falls in Older People – Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention.
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Lindsey Craig
Lindsey Craig is a UK trained physiotherapist who qualified in 1997. She worked in the hospital system in Scotland and England where she began specializing in Musculoskeletal physiotherapy with a special interest in back pain. In 2000, she moved to Sydney and worked in private practice, before starting her Masters in Animal Physiotherapy at UQ in 2004. Lindsey has always had a specific interest in working in Equine Physiotherapy. In 2005, she moved to Auckland, New Zealand where she completed the final year of her Masters, and carried out her research on the Equine Thoracic Spine.
Lindsey works with equine and canine vet specialists who refer many patients to her. Her main clients are performance horses, some of which are at top level competition in dressage and show-jumping, and dogs who are post-operative, or requiring conservative management of orthopaedic problems such as shoulder lameness, and spinal cases.
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Dr Kay Crossley
Dr Kay Crossley is a physiotherapist who obtained her PhD in 2002 . She is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research career targets the evaluation of contributing factors and physiotherapy interventions for chronic knee pain in younger and older adults (mostly patellofemoral pain and osteoarthritis). Including her doctoral studies, she has been involved in six randomised controlled trial (RCT)s, with a further two underway. Kay also has a strong interest in developing clinical assessment tools for people with chronic knee conditions.
In addition to her work in clinical trials, Kay has developed strong collaborations with mechanical engineering, where she now works part-time. In this position she is contributing to research evaluating knee joint stress using advanced computational models. This inter-disciplinary research is enabling the investigation of mechanism underpinning the development and progression of chronic knee conditions. Importantly, Kay is still a practising physiotherapist; she maintains a small clinical practice at Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne and is an APA Sports Physiotherapist.
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Michel Coppieters
Michel Coppieters is a physiotherapist with a special interest in minor nerve injuries and pain. His research consists of clinical studies as well as more basic science experiments. The aim of his research is to obtain a better understanding of the pathophysiology of nerve injuries, to develop novel treatment approaches for patients with neuropathic pain and to test the clinical efficacy of these programs.
Michel has published widely on this topic and he presents frequently at national and international conferences. He is a Senior lecturer and teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy programs at The University of Queensland in Brisbane.
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Anne Daly
Anne has over 20 years experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist. For most of those years she has had an interest in persistent pain and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in particular. Aquatic physiotherapy has been a major method through which Anne delivers her style of pain management. Functional outcome measurement is also a key interest.
Anne is currently enrolled in the Doctorate of Clinical Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne. She recently spent time at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, UK on clinical placement. Anne has previously completed a Masters of Manipulative Physiotherapy and the APA Aquatic Physiotherapy course.
Anne is the musculoskeletal sub-department head at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. She works in the interdisciplinary Austin Health Pain Service where she provides consultancy and collaborative management with other physiotherapists from the state of Victoria for patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Anne also works as a physiotherapy advisor to the Victorian Workcover Authority.
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Paula Davidson
Paula Davidson completed her Masters in Animal Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland in 2006, with a Dean’s Commendation given for her work. Her Research component of the course, on Labrador Elbow Dysplasia, was published in the Australian Veterinary Journal in November 2008. She now runs “All Animal Physiotherapy” in Victoria, Australia.
Paula is a Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and also runs a human Private Practice “The Knee Physio”. Paula’s particular interest in knees and stifles stems from earlier research into rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction completed for her Masters Preliminary(Research) and from her previous Physiotherapy work with elite human sports people, including AFL teams Richmond and Melbourne, Olympians and the Victorian State Netball and Cricket Teams.
Paula is fascinated by learning and has trained dogs and horses for much of her life, thus the extension of her Physiotherapy work into the animal world seemed a natural progression.
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Kathryn Devereux
Kathryn Devereux is currently Acting Manager of Strategic Development / Allied Health Director in North Metropolitan Area Health Service (NMAHS) Public Health and Ambulatory Care. After graduating as a physiotherapist in Western Australia in 1981 she worked in a variety of sectors spanning tertiary to community. As a manager in the East Metropolitan Population Health Unit (EMPHU) she was exposed to different frameworks for planning community services and concepts such as capacity building and community engagement. Kathryn completed her Masters in Physiotherapy at Curtin University in 2004.
Post graduate diabetes educator training in the late eighties started an enduring interest in chronic disease prevention and management. This interest was strengthened with training in Flinders and Lorig delivery of self-management as well as motivational interviewing and brief intervention. The concepts of empowering clients to manage their own conditions were integrated into a variety of services under her management in the (EMPHU) and as Acting Deputy Director of Ambulatory Care NMAHS. These include Community Physiotherapy Services, Diabetes Services, the Falls Linkage Independence Program and Chronic Disease Management Teams.
Kathryn is also a member of the Western Australian (WA) Clinical Senate, a number of WA Clinical Networks, the Health Professions Strategic Workforce Committee and the DoH Interprofessional Learning Reference Group.
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Professor Karen Dodd
Karen Dodd is Professor of Physiotherapy and the Associate Dean in the Division of Allied Health at La Trobe University. She has completed extensive research into the effects of therapeutic exercise for people with chronic disabilities, particularly for people with neurological disabilities. She has published more than 40 papers and book chapters and has given more than 20 conference and invited presentations on this topic and has received competitive funding of almost $500k for research in this area. Professor Karen Dodd and Professor Nick Taylor’s review article titled ‘Progressive resistance exercise in physical therapy: a summary of systematic reviews’ is now internationally regarded as the key reference in this area.
Karen’s work was recognized in 2003 by winning the Victorian Sport and Recreation Applied Research in Sport and Recreation Science award, in 2005 by being a finalist in the Victorian Sport and Recreation Education category for translation of research into practice. She has also co-produced an innovative instructional DVD on strength training for people with cerebral palsy which is being marketed both in Australia and around the world. This DVD won the Fred P. Sage award for the best audiovisual product at the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine 60th Annual Meeting.
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A/Professor Gustavo Duque
A/Prof. Gustavo Duque attended medical school at the University of Caldas (Colombia). Following medical school he completed an internal medicine residency at Javeriana University in Bogota (Colombia) followed by a two-year fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at McGill University. After completing his fellowship, A/Prof. Duque completed a PhD in Experimental Medicine at McGill University with the thesis entitled “Molecular Changes of the Aging Osteoblast”. He joined the faculty at McGill University Medical School as Assistant Professor and as project director at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in 2003.
In 2007, he moved to Australia and joined the faculty at Nepean Clinical School as Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Aging Bone Research Program. His work on mesenchymal stem cells differentiation has provided new evidence to the understanding of senile osteoporosis including the toxic role of bone marrow fat and the potential trans-differentiation between bone and fat cells. His experiments using vitamin D in bone cells have demonstrated a new anabolic effect of vitamin D on both osteoblasts and differentiating mesenchymal stem cells.
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Dr Mark Elkins
Mark Elkins is a research physiotherapist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. His research interests include airway clearance for cystic fibrosis, the co-ordination of physical therapies and pharmacological therapies to maximise the overall effect, and the promotion of evidence-based practice. His PhD research established hypertonic saline as a long-term therapy for cystic fibrosis.
Currently Mark is on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. He has been an invited keynote speaker at national and international scientific meetings and a member of scientific committees for a number of international conferences.
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Angela Fearon
Angie Fearon is currently undertaking a PhD research program examining the clinical presentation, imaging appearance and tissue morphology of Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (Trochanteric Bursitis). She presented several papers related to this condition at the 6th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Pain, (Barcelona 2007), and at the Australian Orthopaedic Association conference (Hobart, October 2008).
Angie has worked in musculoskeletal physiotherapy for over 20 years. Her areas of special interest include pelvic and hip pain which developed out of an interest in women’s health issues and a long association with orthopaedic surgeons who deal with pelvic and hip pain.
Angie is based at the Trauma and Orthopaedic Research Unit at The Canberra Hospital, and the Australian National University. She continues to work clinically in addition to her research program.
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Dr Marlene Fransen
Dr Marlene Fransen is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Marlene holds a NHMRC Career Development Award (2006-2010). She has considerable experience in conducting clinical trials among people with osteoarthritis involving the lower limb joints and has published widely in leading international journals.
She has recently completed the HIPAID study, a large multicentre randomised clinical trial among patients undergoing elective hip replacement surgery and the PAFORM study, a randomised trial evaluating hydrotherapy or Tai Chi classes for people with chronic lower limb osteoarthritis. She has also collaborated on a national survey of rehabilitation practice after knee replacement surgery and a large population-based survey in Inner Mongolia of knee and back pain and disability.
She is lead author on two ongoing Cochrane Systematic Reviews (Exercise for osteoarthritis of the hip or knee; NSAIDs for preventing heterotopic bone formation after hip arthroplasty). Marlene is currently the chief investigator for two large randomised clinical trials: the NHMRC-funded Long Term Evaluation of Glucosamine Sulfate (LEGS) study among people with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis; the MARKER study, a multicentre study evaluating a delayed intensive exercise program among patients who have recently undergone total knee replacement surgery.
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Professor Mary Galea - AJP ORATION
Professor Mary Galea Ph.D, BAppSci (Physio), BA, Grad Dip Physio, Grad Dip Neurosci, Grad Cert Clinical Trials Management.
Professor Galea is Foundation Professor of Clinical Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Rehabilitation Sciences Research Centre at Austin Health. She is a physiotherapist and neuroscientist who commenced her academic career after a substantial period in clinical practice in neurological physiotherapy.
Her research program includes both laboratory-based and clinical projects with the overall theme of elucidating how voluntary movement is controlled by the brain and factors that promote recovery following nervous system damage. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Senior Principal Fellow in the Centre for Neuroscience and the Howard Florey Institute at the University of Melbourne, with national and international research collaborations.
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Jennifer Geytenbeek
M Physio (Musculoskeletal), B App Sc (Physio), Cert Hydro. Graduating from the University of South Australia, Jenny has 18 years clinical physiotherapy experience with a continuous enthusiasm in aquatic physiotherapy throughout her career in general hospital, domiciliary, geriatric and pediatric physiotherapy with the last 8 years employment in private practice involving a majority of experience in musculoskeletal work injuries and chronic pain management. She is a clinical supervisor to the UniSA postgraduate musculoskeletal program and holds a consultative position on the Work Cover SA Physiotherapy Reference Group.
Jenny has a long record of service to the APA Aquatic Physiotherapy Group, and completed an extensive review of evidence supporting the practice of Aquatic Physiotherapy in 2008. She has lectured to aquatic physiotherapy audiences at symposia, courses and the 2008 Victorian APA Winter Breakfast. Jenny’s motto is that “it is harder to keep still than move in water”, underlying her confidence in hydrokinaesiology, or human movement in water, providing very natural movement and exercise therapy that, despite its age old association with relaxation, need not be so gentle after-all.
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Lesley Goff
Lesley is an Animal Physiotherapist and Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, currently balancing her animal and human physiotherapy practice, and carrying out her doctorate in the equine sacroiliac joint at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Lesley’s career as a physiotherapist spans over 18 years, in which time she has completed research masters, and coursework masters in musculoskeletal and animal physiotherapy. She has been involved in teaching on the Animal Physiotherapy masters program at University of Queensland, and has been invited to speak at both veterinary and physiotherapy conferences and workshops in Scandinavia, UK, and USA, as well as Australia.
Lesley is co-editor and author in the long-awaited textbook, Animal Physiotherapy: Assessment Treatment and Rehabilitation of Animals., (Blackwell Publishing). She has had her research published in the Equine Veterinary Journal, and The Veterinary Journal.
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Alison Grimaldi
Alison Grimaldi is an APA accredited Sports Physiotherapist with a Masters degree in Sports Physiotherapy and a Doctorate in Philosophy (Physiotherapy). Her PhD was completed through the University of Queensland, Australia, and was aimed at improving the understanding of function and dysfunction of the lateral stability mechanism of the hip and pelvis.
Alison is the Principal Physiotherapist at PhysioTec Physiotherapy and Pilates in Brisbane. She has 18 years of clinical experience which over the last 10 years has focused primarily on management of hip, lumbopelvic and lower limb conditions, and the development of the use of real time ultrasound for muscle assessment and retraining around the hip and pelvis. Alison is a visiting lecturer on Physiotherapy Masters programmes at the University of Queensland, has presented at many national and international conferences, and runs weekend educational programmes for other physiotherapists.
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Dr Mark Hancock
Mark Hancock is a lecturer in musculoskeletal physiotherapy at The University of Sydney and a part time clinician in private practice. Mark completed a Research Masters degree in 2004 and a PhD in 2008. Mark’s research interests are currently focussed on the management and diagnosis of low back pain. He is interested in different approaches to identifying subgroups of patients who respond best to physiotherapy interventions. Mark has published his research in some of the world’s leading medical and spine specific journals. He currently has funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Physiotherapy Research Foundation to support his research. Mark is deputy editor of the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy.
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Dr Alison Harmer
Dr Alison Harmer is a lecturer in the Discipline of Physiotherapy at The University of Sydney. Her PhD was in exercise physiology (Effects of intense exercise training in young patients with type 1 diabetes) and this enables her to bridge the fields of physiotherapy and exercise physiology in both research and teaching. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in Physiotherapy and in Exercise and Sports Science as a member of the cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal teams; works clinically as a physiotherapist; and supervises several Masters and PhD students.
Alison’s main research interests are the metabolic, respiratory and musculoskeletal effects of exercise therapy and rehabilitation in patients with co-morbid conditions. Her most recent significant publications were in Diabetes Care (2008, 31(11): 2097-2102), Arthritis Care & Research (2009, 61(2): 184-191), and the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (2009, 41: 247-255). She is a panel member of the GMCT Diabetes Network; and is a reviewer for Diabetes Care (US), Journal of Applied Physiology (US), Arthritis Care & Research (US), Australian Journal of Physiotherapy; Physical Therapy (US), and Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (US).
Alison enjoys reading, cycling, bushwalking, swimming, photography, theatre, the company of family and friends; and encouraging others to exercise!Back to Top
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Sophie Heywood
Sophie is the Senior Aquatic Physiotherapist at Sunshine Hospital, Western Health and also works at the Melbourne Sports Medicine Centre and the Carlton Football Club. She completed her Aquatic Physiotherapy studies at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath. Sophie is the current Chair of the APA Aquatic Physiotherapy group.
Sophie has previously completed a Masters of Sports Physiotherapy, which included a pilot trial in aquatic based measures of core control in water polo players. Sophie has also completed a randomised controlled trial in aquatic physiotherapy in hip and knee osteoarthritis and is interested in further investigating proprioception in water. Sophie teaches the undergraduate Aquatic Physiotherapy content at the University of Melbourne and Monash University and has recently been involved in restructuring and teaching on the Level 3 APA Aquatic Physiotherapy course.
Sophie was recently awarded a Churchill Fellowship and in 2009 will be travelling to the US, UK and Europe to investigate the diversity of practice, education and research in Aquatic Physiotherapy overseas.
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Professor Keith Hill
Keith Hill is Professor of Allied Health at La Trobe University and Northern Health, and a senior researcher at the National Ageing Research Institute. He is a physiotherapist with almost 30 years experience in practice, and 15 years in research related to improving health and other outcomes for older people.
His research interests have focused on falls prevention, physical activity, and rehabilitation (in particular stroke and hip fracture rehabilitation) for older people, but have more recently broadened to include associated areas such as cognitive impairment, person centred care, and health service evaluation. He has conducted both research and implementation based trials in community, residential care and hospital settings. He has published over 60 papers in national and international peer reviewed journals, and 10 book chapters.
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Dr Kylie Hill
Dr Kylie Hill graduated from physiotherapy at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. She has worked clinically for more than 10 years, across three states in Australia. In 2002, Kylie returned to Curtin to undertake her PhD in the area of inspiratory muscle training and pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD. In 2006 she moved to Canada to complete three years of post-doctoral study with Drs Dina Brooks and Roger Goldstein at West Park Healthcare Centre and the University of Toronto. She has recently returned to Perth and currently holds a research fellowship with the School of Physiotherapy at Curtin University. Her areas of interest are inspiratory muscle dysfunction, pulmonary rehabilitation and physical activity.
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Professor Paul Hodges
Paul is Professor and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow in the Division of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland and Director of the NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health.
Paul has doctorates in both physiotherapy and neuroscience and his work blends neurophysiological and biomechanical methods to understand the control of movement and stability and how this changes when people have pain. In 2006 Paul was awarded the ISSLS Prize from the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. This is the premier international prize for back pain research.
His primary research interests include investigation the relationship between pain and motor control; the coordination of the multiple functions of the trunk muscles; the effect of exercise in interventions on musculoskeletal pain; and the biomechanical mechanisms for control of the spine. He has published more that 200 peer reviewed papers and book chapters and has received more that $AU11 million in research grants from the NHMRC, ARC and International research funds.
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A/Professor Anne Holland
Anne Holland is Associate Professor of Physiotherapy, a joint appointment of La Trobe University and Alfred Health in Melbourne, Australia. Her role is to facilitate clinical research in physiotherapy at Alfred Health, where she supervises physiotherapy research projects across acute, subacute and community sectors. The aims of this program are to embed research in clinical practice and to empower clinical physiotherapists to answer important research questions.
Anne’s research interests and publications encompass exercise in chronic lung disease, non-invasive ventilation, respiratory physiology and airway clearance techniques.
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Dr Barbara Hungerford
Dr Barbara Hungerford has been a private practitioner in Sydney for over 20 years. At present she is director of Sydney Spine and Pelvis Physiotherapy centre and a consultant physiotherapist at North Sydney Sports Medicine Centre. Her special interest areas are treatment of low back and pelvic pain, post-partum pelvic issues, thoracic spine, rib and neck issues including headaches. Barbara’s interest in pelvic dysfunction led her to complete a PhD in 2002 that focused on altered pelvic biomechanics and muscle recruitment patterns associated with pelvic dysfunction.
Barbara is also director of Advanced Manual Therapy Associates P/L and provides continuing education courses in manual therapy and exercise rehabilitation to an international audience. AMTA P/L also assists ongoing research to improve clinical outcomes in treatment of lumbo-pelvic pain.
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Professor Alice Jones graduated from the Hong Kong Government School of Physiotherapy and received her training in intensive therapy in Sheffield, England. Alice obtained her Master of Philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Science in the Practice of Higher Education from the University of Surrey, and Doctor in Philosophy from the University of Queensland.
In 1995 she was admitted by examination to the Australian College of Physiotherapists as a specialist in Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy. Alice joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1989 and obtained the President’s award for excellence in teaching in 1999. Her research interest is in the area of cardiopulmonary physiotherapy and physiotherapy education.
Professor Jones was the former Programme Leader for the Physiotherapy course (2003-2007), and is currently the Associate Head of Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, and the Director of the “Centre for East-meets-West in Rehabilitation Sciences” at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland from 2002 to 2005. Currently, she is a Visiting Professor at the Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom and Visiting Professor at Hua Xi Clinical Medical College, Sichuan University, China.
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Professor Gwen Jull
Gwendolen Jull is Professor of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland. She is a Director of the NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health and leads the Neck Pain and Whiplash Research Unit in the Division of Physiotherapy. Her research, teaching and clinical interests are cervicogenic headache, whiplash associated disorders and quantifying the dysfunction in the cervical motor and sensorimotor systems as a basis for therapeutic exercise in the rehabilitation of neck disorders.
She has published extensively in the field and has recently published a textbook on the management of neck pain. Professor Jull is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist in part-time private practice and is President of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. She is the co-editor of Manual Therapy, the leading international journal in musculoskeletal physiotherapy.
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A/Professor Sharon Kilbreath
Dr Sharon Kilbreath received her physiotherapy undergraduate and master’s degrees in Canada, whilst her Ph.D. degree in neurophysiology was conferred from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is an Associate Professor in Physiotherapy, Faculty of Heatlh Sciences at the University of Sydney and a National Breast Cancer Research Foundation Research Fellow.
Dr Kilbreath’s research focuses on issues arising from treatment for breast cancer. Her research spans both laboratory-based and clinical research. Laboratory-based research has been undertaken to identify issues related to fatigue following chemotherapy, whereas her clinical research is directed at rehabilitation of patients’ impairments and disabilities resulting from treatment of breast cancer. She leads a team of senior researchers, clinicians and several postdoctoral students in projects that aim firstly to prevent physical morbidities from occurring as result from treatment of breast cancer and secondly to diagnose and treat lymphoedema, one of the major complications of treatment.
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Robert King
Robert is a partner at Milner Lawyers in Brisbane and is returning as an invited speaker to 2nd OHPA conference in 2009 after his stimulating presentation at the Cairns conference in 2007.
Robert is experienced in all areas of workplace law but the area in which he finds great satisfaction is workplace health and safety.
His extensive experience includes advising on the development of occupational health and safety policies, investigating safety incidents, reviewing safety procedures and representing employers in prosecutions.
His experience in this area includes assisting a number of employers following workplace fatalities.
Robert is also a very effective trainer and presenter on safety matters. He has developed and presented safety and other workplace training to clients including Anglo Coal, Macmahon’s, Thiess Sedgman, Ensham, RNA, Flight Centre and Amcor.
Prior to commencing his career in law Robert was a radiographer and he has a Diploma in Applied Science Diagnostic Radiography as well as his Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce.
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Dr Saravana Kumar
B.App.Sc (Physio) MPT (Manipulative&Sports) PhD
Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC NICS MAC Fellow
Deputy Director,
The Centre for Allied Health Evidence
Dr. Kumar is the current senior research fellow and the NHMRC NICS MAC fellow at the Centre for Allied Health Evidence, University of South Australia, Adelaide. Dr. Kumar has keen interest in quality measurement and evaluation of health service delivery. His interests also include research into bridging the gap between research evidence and clinical practice. Underpinning this interest is identifying and breaking down of barriers in uptake of research evidence into clinical practice and its influence in the quality of health care service delivery. Dr. Kumar also teaches topics on evidence based practice, evidence implementation and knowledge transfer to students and health professionals nationally and internationally. He also acts as a consultant to several national and international agencies on issues pertinent to evidence implementation.
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Judy Larsen
A University of Qld. graduate Judy has been involved in Aquatic physiotherapy practice and education for 30years years. She currently works in private practice in Brisbane but her aquatic experience has been gained in hospital, community disability and special school practice. Her time in hospital settings included management of a hospital based facility. Judy has also worked in health education with Arthritis Qld and Osteoporosis Australia and consults in pool design and management, having been involved in the design planning and commissioning of many new pools across Australia as well as problem solving the modification of many unsuitable pools in health and community sectors.
Currently she lectures in aquatic practice to Griffith and James Cook University physiotherapy students as well as providing postgraduate training for physiotherapists across Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and Brazil. Judy also trains special school staff, allied health assistants and disability staff in therapeutic aquatics. Judy was co-author of the A.P.A Guidelines for Physiotherapist Working in and Managing Hydrotherapy Pools 2002, has written a chapter on Osteoporosis in a physiotherapy Women’s Health text book, has co-authored another chapter in “Grieve’s Modern Manual Therapy: The Vertebral Column” on osteoporosis as well as other articles relating to pain management and exercise guidelines in osteoporosis. Her mainly aquatic practice in Brisbane has patients from musculoskeletal, rheumatological, neurological, paediatric, aged care and antenatal areas.
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Dr Mark Laslett
Mark was in private physiotherapy practice in Auckland, New Zealand from 1971 to 2001. He gained the Diploma in Manipulative Therapy in 1976 and an instructor for the NZMPA 1980-1989. He was the NZMPA President 1988 and 1989.
Mark was a senior international instructor for the McKenzie Institute International from 1984 until 1997. He commenced teaching his own short courses on diagnosis and therapy for the upper and lower limbs in 1991 and for the lumbar spine and pelvis from 1998. In all he has presented over 200 courses in Australasia, North America, Europe and Scandinavia. He has presented at many international conferences with free, invited and keynote presentations. He published the book “The Upper Limb: Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy” in 1996.
He commenced doctoral studies from the University of Linköping, Sweden in 2001 and successfully defended his dissertation in 2005. He has over 20 scientific papers published with emphasis on his interest in the reliability and validity of the clinical examination in musculoskeletal diagnostics. He continues research in these areas. Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow at Auckland University of Technology and Director of Clinical Services for the largest group private physiotherapy practice in the South Island.
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Dr Jane Latimer
Dr Jane Latimer is an Associate Professor in both The Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney and the Musculoskeletal Division at The George Institute for International Health. Her research interests include the diagnosis and management of spinal pain conditions and, more recently, indigenous health. Assoc Prof Latimer has obtained over $4.5 million to fund this research and her work has been published in leading international journals including the Lancet and Pain. Recently she embarked on a new project, producing a short movie called ‘Yajilarra’ that was launched by the Australian Government at the United Nations in New York in March 2009. This movie tells the journey of a group of exceptional, indigenous women from a remote community in North-Western Australia. The movie was recently screened at Parliament House in Canberra and will be distributed widely in schools.
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Leigh McCutcheon
Leigh McCutcheon graduated from Sydney University and has been in practice since 1991. She is a partner of the Combined Health practice group and is the principal physiotherapist of the Robina and Elanora Physiotherapy Clinics on the Gold Coast. In 1999 Leigh completed her Graduate Certificate in Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapy and then went on to complete studies at AUT to graduate as a manipulative therapist receiving first class Honours in the Master of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy program.
Leigh has also completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Western Acupuncture and lectures to physiotherapists on acupuncture and dry needling for the musculoskeletal system at various venues around Australia and at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. She has worked closely with other committee members in the APA to create the national APA Acupuncture and Dry Needling group and is presently the Vice Chairperson and Queensland representative. Leigh is a delegate on the APA Risk Management Committee and was on the panel of physiotherapists that developed the Australian Society of Acupuncture Physiotherapist’s Acupuncture and Dry Needling Safety Guidelines.
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Bronwyn McIIveen
Currently Director and Senior Clinician Physiotherapist at East Brighton Physiotherapy Centre. In the past employed as Senior Clinician in Hydrotherapy at Caulfield General Medical Centre (1989-1994) and also had AqPhys experience in the UK. Bronwyn started Kingston Rehab Centre’s Hydrotherapy Programme in 1982 as a new grad.
Her Masters of Manip Physiotherapy Thesis completed in 1995 titled “The outcome of low back pain following hydrotherapy” was published in “Physiotherapy” journal in January 1998. Bronwyn presented her research at the APA National Physiotherapy Congress 1996 and was invited to present it at the Australian Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 1997 and at the National Hydrotherapy Conference 1998.
She has lectured for the APA Vic Branch AqPhys Group on various topics, for Aquatic Level 1 courses, Post-Graduate AqPhys Level 3 courses, and Grad Dip Exercise and Rehab courses. Bronwyn completed the Hydrotherapy Certificate (1989) and Grad Dip Manip Physiotherapy (1992).
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Renae McNamara
Renae McNamara is the Clinical Specialist in Pulmonary Rehabilitation at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. She is currently completing her PhD through the University of Sydney investigating the effect of water-based exercise and immersion in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with physical co-morbidities. Renae presents frequently on the benefits of rehabilitation and aquatic therapy in chronic lung disease and is actively involved in the APA Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Australia group and more recently the National Aquatic Group.
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Dr Graeme Maguire
Graeme Maguire, born and bred in Geelong Victoria, undertook undergraduate medical training in Melbourne and is still unsure how he ended up in the north of Australia for the last 12 years. Specialist respiratory training, a PhD relating to Aboriginal Australian respiratory health and a desire to never be in the one place for too long has expanded to a broad commitment to provide specialist care, advocacy, education and support to residents of regional and remote Australia and to community-based primary and allied health care providers. Now based in Cairns he provides hospital and community-based outreach service across the north of Australia, supports the medical student clinical training program of James Cook University in Cairns and is involved with a number of research and health service development projects across the north of Australia.
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Brooke Marsh
Holistic Animal Physiotherapy
North Coast Veterinary Specialists (NCVS)
Brisbane Veterinary Specialists (BVSC)
Brooke Marsh is a Titled Animal Physiotherapist who completed her Bachelor of Physiotherapy from UQ in 1997 and Masters of Animal Studies in 2005. She specialises in small animal rehabilitation at the North Coast Veterinary Specialists (NCVS) on the sunshine coast, Brisbane Veterinary Specialist Centre (BVSC), and treats wild animals where able. Brooke is also an acupuncturist, Pilates and Yoga instructor and enjoys transferring her skills across to her animal work. She has a special interest in specific canine rehabilitation especially spine, hip and pelvis, and completed her research studies in canine hip dysplasia.
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A/Professor Vasi Naganathan
MBBS, FRACP, MMed (Clin Epi), Phd, Grad Cert Med Ed
Vasi Naganathan is an Academic at the University of Sydney based at the Centre for Education and Research at Concord Hospital. He is also a Consultant Geriatrician who looks after inpatients and outpatients. His research interests in older people include osteoporosis, falls, medications in the elderly and the application of clinical research to the medical care of older people.
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Dr Amanda Nagle
Amanda is a behavioural scientist, with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology (Hons) from UNSW, and a PhD from the Discipline of Behavioural Science in Relation to Medicine, at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle.
Her research experience has been in the area of behaviour change and health at a population level. Amanda has been a past president of the Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine, and is a member of Australian Cardiac Rehabilitation Association and the Public Health Association of Australia. Her professional career has included tertiary teaching at several universities in the Faculties of psychology, nursing and medicine and she has published research papers in peer reviewed journals. She has presented at multiple national and international conferences, on health, risk factors and health care improvement.
Amanda is currently the Heartmoves Program Manager with the National Heart Foundation of Australia, where she has instigated and steered the development, evaluation and implementation of the multi award winning Heartmoves program. This innovative exercise program incorporates accredited training course for exercise professionals, in safe delivery of low to moderate intensity exercise incorporating resistance, aerobic, flexibility and balance components and targeting those with (or at risk of) stable chronic conditions.
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Helen Nicholson
Helen Nicholson (BPhty, MAnimSt(Animal Physiotherapy), APA Animal Physiotherapist) began working with animals in 1999 and since then has built up a successful practice at several veterinary hospitals in Sydney, whilst also furthering her education in the field.
Helen has lectured and taught practical courses on neurological, orthopaedic and respiratory small animal physiotherapy in Australia, the UK, Italy, Japan and the USA. She has contributed to a textbook on animal physiotherapy published by Blackwell and had two scientific publications to date. Helen's PhD thesis 'Physiotherapy in the Canine Intensive Care Setting' was submitted in May 2008 and she is looking forward to discussing with us some practical applications of the work that went into this thesis, for example, the treatment of aspiration pneumonia and the use of CPAP with brachycephalic animals.
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Asst. Professor Peter O'Sullivan
Peter is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist who consults 3 days per week in a multi-disciplinary practice, and is an Associate Professor at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia where he teaches at a post graduate level and conducts clinical research. Peter has an International reputation for his clinical research investigating the development, classification and management of chronic spinal pain disorders. He has published over 65 papers on his work in international peer review journals and has presented the findings of his research at more than 50 National and International conferences. Peters interest is the application of research to the clinical setting.
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Craig Payne
Craig Payne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Podiatry at LaTrobe university. Craig lectures at many national and international conferences on foot biomechanics and foot orthotics and is widely published in these area. His main research interests are related to the determinants of foot orthoses outcomes and their theoretical underpinnings.
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Heather Pierce
Heather has been working as a physiotherapist in both public and private health care sectors since graduation in 1983. During the last 15 years she has worked primarily with pregnant and postnatal women, teaching childbirth and pregnancy classes and running her own business providing aquatic classes and consultations for childbearing women.
Heather has been an active member of the CWHPA group, assisting in the implementation and teaching of APA accredited courses for physiotherapists in the assessment and treatment of women with pelvic and low back pain during the childbearing year, Heather currently works in Women’s Health at Westmead Hospital and has recently completed the newly offered Bachelor of Midwifery at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has been awarded a financial scholarship to assist in the completion of an Honours program. Her research focus will be pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain. Other passions include the investigation of ways to prevent as well as treat birth trauma and morbidities associated with childbirth.
Heather will be working concurrently as both a physiotherapist and midwife at Westmead Hospital in 2009. She is a regular guest lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, teaching pelvic anatomy and physiology to Bachelor of Midwifery students.
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Paula Raymond-Yacoub
Paula Raymond-Yacoub is presently the Chair of the Acupuncture and Dry Needling Group and has been involved in training physiotherapists in acupuncture for nearly 20 years. She was and remains an integral developer of the level 1 and level 2 APA Traditional acupuncture courses. Paula also has worked along with Glen Martin to develop an advanced traditional acupuncture practice course (level 3 equivalent).
Internationally Paula completed an internship at the Red Cross Hospital in Hangzhou PRC and in recent years has continued her studies in Japan.
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Dr Trudy Rebbeck
PhD FACP MappSc(Manip physio) BAppSc(Physio)
Trudy Rebbeck is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and a lecturer in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney. Trudy’s clinical expertise and research interests have been in the development and implementation of best practice for the management of whiplash. She is the author of many peer reviewed papers and has run national education workshops for the management of whiplash.
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Dr Julie Redfern
Julie Redfern has been a clinical researcher for the past 10 years. She is a clinical physiotherapist and research academic who currently holds a NHMRC National Institute of Clinical Studies – Heart Foundation Fellowship.
Julie is an advocate for effective ongoing prevention of cardiovascular disease and her research interest is focussed on improving clinical practice and reduction of risk factors ultimately in people with a range of chronic diseases. Julie has presented at national and international conferences, published numerous scientific journals and has won several national research awards.
She hopes to help make effective ongoing prevention available for more people with chronic disease.
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A/Professor Darren Rivett
Dr Rivett is the Head of the School of Health Sciences and Foundation Head of Physiotherapy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has been a titled musculoskeletal physiotherapist since 1986, managed several private practices in Sydney and coordinated postgraduate programs in musculoskeletal physiotherapy at two Australasian universities. Dr Rivett is presently the Chair of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA) and has twice served on the MPA National Committee. He is also on the Standards Committee of the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapists (IFOMT) and is leading the development of an international consensus statement on safe manipulative practice in the cervical spine for IFOMT.
Along with Mark Jones, Dr Rivett is the co-editor of the successful text ‘Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists’ and is presently working on an evidence-based text on the Mulligan Concept. His main research interests are the benefits and risks of manual therapy in the cervical spine and clinical reasoning in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, areas in which he has extensively published and been invited to present both nationally and internationally. Dr Rivett is a former Associate Editor for the journal Manual Therapy. He is also a third generation manipulative practitioner.
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Kristy Rose
Kristy has worked with the Institute for Neuromuscular Research, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead for 6 years, previously as a physiotherapist and now as the Clinical Trials Coordinator. She is also a conjoint lecturer at the University of Sydney and is completing her PhD studies.
Kristy’s research interest is in determining the most reliable and objective outcome measures for use in clinical trials for preschool age children with neuromuscular disorders. Her PhD studies have included obtaining normal values for foot and ankle muscle strength in children aged 4 years and under; investigating the reliability of testing foot and ankle muscle strength using a hand-held dynamometer; conducting a systematic review of literature investigating the effectiveness of treatments that are thought to improve ankle range of motion in people with neuromuscular disorders; as well as conducting a randomised controlled trial to investigate whether stretching using night casts can improve function in children and adolescents with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
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Professor Paul Seale
Paul Seale is the Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at University of Sydney, a Honorary Consultant Physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a Research leader at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. He is a Past President of the Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand, a Past Council Member of the Australian Lung Foundation, a Council Member of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, a Congress President of the 5th APSR Congress, Sydney 1998, the Past Associate Editor of Respirology and a Council Member of the Australian Respiratory Council.
His professional experiences include involvement in Clinical Medicine as Consultant Physician (Respiratory Medicine/ Clin Pharmac), Advisory committees to FDA (USA) and the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC). His clinical and research interests include mechanisms of asthma and drug treatment of asthma and COPD and drug actions in respiratory diseases.
Paul Seale has over 150 publications in peer reviewed journals on diseases of the chest and clinical pharmacology.
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Karl Schurr
Karl Schurr BAppSc MAppSc (physiotherapy) has worked primarily in stroke rehabilitation since graduating in 1984. He has been teaching postgraduate therapists nationally and internationally since 1992 as well as being involved in randomised controlled trails investigating effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions.
Implementation of evidence-based interventions in hospital and outpatient settings has been an ongoing interest. Publications include papers on walking, upper limb use in the healthy elderly and physiotherapy intervention.
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Dr Peter Selvaratnam
Dr Peter J Selvaratnam is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Melbourne and is a Senior Honorary Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University. Peter is a Clinical Specialist in private practice and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists.
His research work on the cervical region and referred pain has been published in Spine, the Journal of Anatomy and the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. He is currently Senior Editor and writing a multi-author book on Headache, temperomandibular disorders and related conditions to be published in 2009. Peter qualified as an acupuncturist overseas and currently practises dry needling and runs seminars for physiotherapists in Australia and in the Clinical Doctorate programme at the University of Melbourne. He is a committee member of the National ADNC and Chairperson of the inaugural Victorian ADNC.
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Vicki Sharrock
Vicki is a clinician with nearly 30 years experience and presently working at War Memorial Hospital in Waverley Sydney.
Having been introduced to the clinical benefits of Aquatic Physiotherapy whilst working in Canada as a young graduate, Vicki developed a keen interest in Aquatic Physiotherapy and has managed to have worked the majority of her career at hospitals that have had a hydrotherapy pool.
In conjunction with the Physiotherapy Department at War Memorial Hospital, Vicki is currently conducting a research project into the possible benefits of Aquatic Physiotherapy for people with early to mid stage Parkinsons Disease.
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Dr Barbara Singer
Dr Barbara Singer is a neurological physiotherapist with over 25 years of clinical experience in acute and rehabilitation neurology and neurosurgery services. She currently co-ordinates postgraduate programs for physiotherapists in neurological rehabilitation at the Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies, The University of WA.
She has been Principal Investigator for RCT’s examining: the role of botulinum toxin in the management of chronic anterior knee pain and tennis elbow respectively, the efficacy of static and cyclic stretching to reduce calf muscle stiffness after stroke, and the role of neuromuscular electrical stimulation ± bimanual movement in assisting recovery of motor function after stroke.
She is a titled member [Neurological Physiotherapist] of the APA and is currently Chair of the National Advisory Council, a committee member of the National Neurology Group [WA Chapter], and is a member of the Educators group.
Her interest in improving the process of transition of young people with chronic conditions from paediatric to adult services has lead to her nomination onto a working party within the Health Dept [WA] charged with developing a framework for transition to fit into a range of models of care. She is currently working with another NAC members on an APA Position statement on transition to help facilitate adoption of best practice models.
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Dr Christine Smith
In 1995 Christine graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in Canada. After completing a Large Animal Internship at Texas A&M University, Christine completed a three year residency program in Equine Surgery and Lameness at the University of California, Davis. Following completion of the residency program she remained at UC Davis as a staff surgeon until she relocated to Australia in 2003.
Christine joined the University Veterinary Centre Camden (University of Sydney) and is currently the Head of Equine Surgery. Christine is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and a Registered Specialist in Equine Surgery in New South Wales. Special professional interests include lameness, poor performance in sport and racehorses, and surgical management of colic.
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Professor Leon Straker
Leon Straker is Professor and Director of Research in the School of Physiotherapy at Curtin University WA.
Leon is an engaging speaker and a leading researcher in the field of ergonomics. His primary research interests are in the areas of computer use by children; prevention of musculoskeletal disorders associated with computer use; adolescent spinal pain; and manual handling. Leon was keynote speaker at inaugural OHPA conference in Cairns 2007.
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Professor Nicholas Taylor
Nick Taylor is Professor of Physiotherapy at La Trobe University and Eastern Health, and Deputy Head of School in the School of Physiotherapy at La Trobe University. He is an active researcher on the effects of physical activity and exercise on people with a disability, with a focus on the effects of strength training for people with cerebral palsy.
He has published widely on exercise and strength training, and his review paper on the benefits of therapeutic exercise in physiotherapy was published in the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. Along with Professor Karen Dodd he was awarded the 2003 Victorian Government Sport and Recreation Applied Science award in recognition of his research and won the 2006 Fred P Sage award for the best multimedia product at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine for their DVD on strength training for young people with cerebral palsy.
Nick is currently leading a National Health and Medical Research Council randomised controlled trial on the effect of strength training for people with cerebral palsy and is a chief investigator on a trial investigating a multi-model home exercise program for people with Parkinson disease.
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Dr Anne Vertigan
Dr Anne Vertigan is the Area Profession Director for speech pathology in the Hunter New England Region and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. She completed her PhD in the management of chronic cough and vocal cord dysfunction through the University of Queensland.
She is currently completing a post doctoral research fellowship in respiratory medicine through the NHMRC Clinical Centre for Research Excellence. Her clinical interests are voice disorders, chronic cough and vocal cord dysfunction.
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1-5 October 2009 Sydney Convetion Centre
