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Dr Johannes (Han) Anema MD PhD
Dr. J.R. ANEMA is an occupational physician. He is employed as assistant professor /senior researcher at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of the VU University Medical Centre and the EMGO Institute in Amsterdam. Since 2005 he is also part time employed at the Research Centre for Insurance Medicine AMC UWV VUmc.
His main research topics are:
1. Cost-effectiveness of work disability prevention interventions
2. Improvement of cooperation between clinical and occupational healthcare.
He is project leader of several national projects. He is currently supervising many PhD-students. For his PhD-project, entitled low back pain, workplace intervention & return-to-work’, he obtained in 1999 a personal governmental grant and he received in 2002 the 'Zielhuis award' of the Dutch Medical Board for Occupational Medicine. In 2005 he has been awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development as ‘CLINICAL FELLOW 2005-2010' to develop a research line to improve evidence based medicine in clinical occupational healthcare.
He has many international scientific collaborations. He is assigned in Canada since 2003 as a lecturer, since 2005 as a mentor and since 2008 as a member of the Programme Executive Committee for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research strategic training program Work disability prevention. He is part of an international publishing network on work disability prevention. Since 2007 he is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation.
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A/Professor Alexandra Barratt
A/Prof Barratt is Associate Professor of Public Health, in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, and co-director of the Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence Based Decision Making. Over the last 15 years she has taught and developed curricula in epidemiology, evidence based medicine and public health. Her research covers methodological work in cancer screening (breast, cervical and prostate cancer screening), patient decision aids in breast and prostate cancer screening and evaluation of a range of interventions to support evidence based shared decision making.
She is a double Eureka prize winner for her radio programs on Cancer Screening and Facing the Evidence, broadcast ABC Radio National’s “The Health Report”. She has worked as a consultant for the National Breast Cancer Screening Initiative of Canada, the US National Cancer Institute, the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre and NHMRC.
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Dr Robyn Box
Dr Robyn Box graduated from the University of Queensland and subsequently completed her Research Masters and PhD. With a background in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, Robyn has more than 25 years clinical experience with the last 20 years working in the area of Oncology and Lymphoedema.
Particular clinical and research interests are
• physiotherapy rehabilitation after cancer surgery, particularly breast and gynaecological cancers;
• optimizing health and well-being for patients during and following cancer treatment;
• assessment and early detection of secondary Lymphoedema;
• efficacy of treatment interventions to prevent and minimize secondary limb Lymphoedema.
Committed to evidence-based best practice to optimize individual patient outcomes, Robyn has publishes her research and clinical work; presents at National and International conferences; and provides education for health professionals at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Robyn currently works in private practice in Brisbane, Australia while continuing her clinical research.
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Professor Rachelle Buchbinder
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder is a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist funded by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship. She is Director of the Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital; Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University; and Joint Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group.
She combines rheumatology practice with clinical research in a wide range of multidisciplinary collaborative projects including clinical trials and systematic reviews of novel interventions for various musculoskeletal conditions; mass media campaigns for back pain; the Australian Rheumatology Association Database (ARAD), a national registry set up to assess the long term outcome of biological therapy for inflammatory arthritis; health literacy; and use of a linguistic framework for improving the quality of written patient information. She has received several prestigious awards for research excellence including the Volvo Award in 2001 for the best international clinical science paper relating to back pain, the Australian Rheumatology Association Parr Prize in 2004, and in 2007 she received a Commendation for the Premier’s Award for Medical Research in Victoria as well as the Monash University Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal.
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Professor Julie Byles
Professor Julie Byles is Director of the Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing – a Priority Research Centre at the University of Newcastle, and co-Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health.
As a clinical epidemiologist, Professor Byles has interests in risk determination and assessment, and measurement of health outcomes. As a Gerontologist and Fellow of the Australian Association of Gerontology, Professor Byles’ research interests in ageing include the role of health services, preventive activities, and treatments in maintaining quality of life for older people, and in determining physical, psychological and social factors associated with optimal physical and mental health of men and women as they age.
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Professor Richard Casaburi
Richard Casaburi is currently Associate Chief for Research and Professor of Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California. He is also Director of the Clinical Respiratory Physiology Laboratory and the Medical Director of the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center.
Professor Casaburi pursued a research career in biomedical engineering, receiving a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, before qualifying in medicine from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the American Physiological Society, American Thoracic Society, and American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Professor Casaburi is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society and the Journal of COPD. He has authored over 195 publications and 160 abstracts.
Dr Casaburi holds the Alvin Grancell/Mary Burns Endowed Chair in the Rehabilitative Sciences at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is President of the Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to advancing the scientific basis and practice of pulmonary rehabilitation.
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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. Back to top
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A/Professor Julie Fritz
Julie Fritz is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Utah and Clinical Outcomes Research Scientist with Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, Utah. She received her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Indianapolis and her PhD in Rehabilitation Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She served on the faculty in the Physical Therapy Department at the University of Pittsburgh for six years prior to moving to Salt Lake City.
Her research interests have focused on examining treatments for individuals with low back pain and matching the most effective treatments to various sub-groups of patients with low back pain.
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Professor Marijke Hopman-Rock
Marijke Hopman-Rock studied Biology (1977), Psychology Statistics (1987) and Epidemiology (PhD 1997).
She is the founding chair (2005) of the European Network for Action on Ageing and Physical Activity (EUNAAPA), including more than 20 European countries.
She is programme manager Physical Activity and Health of TNO Quality of Life (the Dutch Organization for Applied Sciences) in Leiden and co-director of the Body@Work Research Center, a co-operation between TNO and VU University Medical Center (VUMC) in Amsterdam. Since September 2008 she has been appointed at the VUMC as a special Professor in Physical Activity and Health of Older Persons.
Some references:
Hopman-Rock M, Westhoff MH. The effects of a health educational and exercise program for older adults with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. Journal of Rheumatology 2000, 27, 1947-54
Hopman-Rock M, Westhoff MH. Development and evaluation of “Aging Well and Healthily”: a health education and exercise program for community-Living Older Adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 2002, 10, 363-380
Uffelen van JGZ, Chin A Paw MJM, Mechelen van W, Hopman-Rock M. Walking or vitamin B for cognition in older aldults with mild cognitive impairment? a randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2008;42:344-51
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Dr Ben Kibler
Dr Kibler is an Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in sports medicine and shoulder injury. He is Medical Director of the Lexington Clinic Sports Medicine Center and the Shoulder Center of Kentucky, both located in Lexington, KY USA. His areas of special interest and research are biomechanics of the overhand throwing motion, scapular function in shoulder activity and injury, and rehabilitation following injury, He delivered the Higgins Lecture at the Australian College of Sports Physicians in 1998, and received the Jack Hughston Award in 2008 for service to sports medicine rehabilitation from the American Physical Therapy Association. He serves on the United States Tennis Association sports science committee, and is a consultant to the Sony Ericcson WTA.
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Professor Gert Kwakkel
Professor Gert Kwakkel started his career as a physiotherapist in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the VU University Medical Centre of Amsterdam in 1982. Subsequently, he obtained a MSc degree in Human Movement Science at the Vrije Universiteit in 1993.
Based on a grant from the Dutch Heart Association in 1994, he proceeded to conduct doctoral research in the Department Physical Therapy at the Vrije Universiteit. For this purpose he researched the effects of intensity of upper and lower limb training after stroke.
At this moment more than 75 scientific papers are published in peer reviewed journals such as Lancet and Stroke. Currently, Professor Gert Kwakkel has a chair of Neurorehabilitation at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam. In particular his chair is dedicated to translational research in which knowledge from pre-clinical research is used for a better understanding of functional change in the field of stroke rehabilitation.
He is president of the Dutch Society of Neurorehabilitation and Managing editor of the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR). Prof. Kwakkel has participated in several national and international steering committees for the development of guidelines on stroke management. In addition, he is a senior lecturer at the faculty of human movement science in Amsterdam and is appointed to the position of visiting professor in the faculty of health, social work and education in the University of Northumbria in Great-Brittain.
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Dr Helene Langevin
Dr Helene M Langevin received an MD degree from McGill University in 1978. She did a post doctoral research fellowship in Neurochemistry at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge, England, residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
She studied acupuncture at the Tristate Institute of Acupuncture and the Worsley College of Classical Chinese Acupuncture. She currently is an Associate Professor of Neurology, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and is the Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded studies investigating acupuncture, connective tissue and low back pain. Dr Langevin’s research focuses on connective tissue mechanical signal transduction as a mechanism common to acupuncture, manual and movement-based therapies. Her previous studies in humans and animal models have shown that mechanical tissue stimulation during both tissue stretch and acupuncture causes dynamic cellular responses in connective tissue. She is currently investigating how these tissue responses are affected by chronic conditions such as low back pain.
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Professor Richard Lieber
Rick Lieber earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics from U.C. Davis in 1982 developing a theory of light diffraction that was applied to mechanical studies of single muscle cells. He joined the faculty of U.C. San Diego in 1985 where he continues studies of structure-function relationships in skeletal muscle. Dr. Lieber’s work is characterized by its interdisciplinary nature—an approach that is relevant to those who study biomechanics. He has published over 150 articles in journals ranging from the very basic such as The Biophysical Journal and The Journal of Cell Biology to those more applied such as The Journal of Hand Surgery and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. More recently, he has implemented more modern tools of molecular biology in his work trying to understand gene expression patterns in muscles subjected to high stress and in performing mechanistic studies of muscles in which genes are introduced to muscles in an attempt to change their mechanical function. It is these types of interdisciplinary biomechanical studies that Dr. Lieber hopes can inspire future investigators interested in biomechanics.
Dr. Lieber has been honored by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Kappa Delta Award), the American Bone and Joint Surgeons (Nicolas Andry Award) the American College of Sports Medicine (Fellow), and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Fellowship) and the American Society for Biomechanics (Borelli Award) primarily for his work with long-time colleague Jan Fridén. His research laboratory is supported primarily by grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs and National Institutes of Health.
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Jenny McConnell
BAppSci(Phty), Grad Dip Man Ther, M Biomed Eng
Jenny McConnell is a physiotherapist working in private practice in Sydney, Australia. Jenny has been involved in research into patellofemoral, lower limb, shoulder and lumbar spine problems. She has published widely in these areas and has lectured extensively on the management of chronic musculoskeletal problems - patellofemoral, shoulder and spine. Jenny is on the editorial boards of Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, British Journal of Sports Medicine, The Knee, Manual Therapy and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Jenny was recently awarded the prestigious F.E. Johnson Memorial Fellowship by the NSW Sporting Injuries Committee for outstanding achievement by an established researcher in the field of science and medicine in sport., which lead to a sabbatical at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California for 4 months at the end of 2008.
On January 26th 2009 Jenny was awarded a member of the Order of Australia honour for service to physiotherapy as a practitioner and researcher, particularly through the development of innovative musculoskeletal pain management techniques and treatment.
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Dr Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell graduated from Massey University in 1990 and after a short stint in practice in New Zealand travelled to the UK where some years were spent travelling and working in general practice. He subsequently entered and completed an orthopaedic biased Small Animal Surgery residency at The University of Bristol in 1998 and subsequently passed the European college of Veterinary Surgeons qualifying examination in Small animal surgery in 2001. He is now a registered specialist on both Australasia and Europe. After returning to Australia and having spent five years in Brisbane he moved to the Sunshine Coast where he established North Coast Veterinary Specialists (NCVS) where he runs the surgery service. Richards surgical caseload has always revolved around orthopaedics with arthroscopic surgery, trauma surgery and neurosurgery his main interests. He has a young family with initially three children under three but is now finding the balance of more rock climbing and less work more appealing.
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Irmina Nahon
Irmina Nahon graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Physiotherapy) from the University of Sydney in 1991. She has since developed a strong interest in Pelvic Floor rehabilitation and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Continence and Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy from Melbourne University (2000) and a Master of Physiotherapy from the University of South Australia (2003). She is currently doing a PhD on Assessment and Management of Male Urinary Incontinence at the University of Sydney.
Irmina works as a continence physiotherapist with ACT Health in the Continence Promotion Centre and juggles this with tutoring at Canberra University as well as her studies. Irmina is very passionate about continence promotion, teaching health professionals about identifying and treating incontinence as well as doing research on male incontinence.
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Amanda Piper
BAppSc (Phty), MEd, PhD.
Coordinator, Respiratory Failure Service and Home Ventilation Program, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Research Fellow, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. Dr Piper has been involved in the clinical management of patients with respiratory failure and sleep disordered breathing for more than 15 years, and is widely recognised for her theoretical and practical expertise in the use of non-invasive ventilation. She has published in a range of peer-reviewed international journals on topics ranging from nocturnal hypoventilation in neuromuscular disorders and cystic fibrosis, the management of obesity hypoventilation syndrome through to the use of non-invasive ventilation as an adjunct to early mobilisation and exercise training. For more than a decade, Dr Piper has been involved in the training of health professionals in all aspects of assessing and using non-invasive ventilation, designing and conducting courses in Australia, the United States, Asia and New Zealand. Other current professional activities include co-chairing the Home Oxygen and Ventilation group of the Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce, coordinating a national multidisciplinary team interested in developing research projects around non-invasive ventilation, and chairing the Domiciliary Ventilation Group working party involved in the development of consensus guidelines for home ventilation in NSW.
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A/Professor Christopher M Powers
Christopher M Powers, Ph.D., P.T. is an Associate Professor in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy and Co-Director of the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Southern California.
His primary research interests are concerned with the kinematic, kinetic and muscular actions associated with human movement, the pathomechanics of orthopedic disabilities, and issues related to rehabilitation of the musculoskeletal system. Dr Powers is an active researcher, and has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles. He frequently lectures both nationally and internationally on topics related to lower limb biomechanics and the pathomechanics of orthopedic disorders.
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Craig Purdam
Craig Purdam is Head of the Physical Therapies department at the Australian Institute of Sport. He received his undergraduate qualification in 1975, a postgraduate diploma in Sports in 1992, a Masters in Sports in 2000 and is a specialist in sports physiotherapy after being awarded Fellowship by clinical specialisation with the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2009. He was awarded the Australian Sports medal in 2000.
Craig has worked as a clinician in elite sport for over 30 years and has been Physiotherapist to 5 Olympic games (1984-2000) and a longstanding physiotherapist to the national men’s Basketball team over that period. He has also had other associations with the national Swimming, Track and Field and Rowing teams. His major clinical and research interests are in the fields of tendinopathy, chronic hamstring injury and tissue loading, adaptation and healing mechanisms.
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A/Professor Clare Robertson
Associate Professor Clare Robertson is a falls prevention researcher at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. She has extensive experience in developing new falls prevention programs for older people, designing and executing high standard clinical trials which include economic evaluations, and working with health organizations to promote falls prevention programs in the community. She was a key investigator in the trials that developed and tested the Otago Exercise Programme, a successful falls prevention program for older people that is now used around the world. Clare is an author of several systematic reviews including two Cochrane reviews. Her research interests include investigating which falls prevention strategies provide best value for money.
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Dr Jay P Shah
Jay P Shah is a senior staff physiatrist in the Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. Dr Shah is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
His clinical research interests include the pathophysiology of myofascial pain and the integration of physical medicine techniques with promising complementary approaches in the management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. He is the Director of the Medical Rehabilitation training program for Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr Shah lectures extensively on mechanisms of chronic pain, myofascial pain, acupuncture techniques and other related topics. He and his co-investigators at the NIH are utilizing novel microanalytical techniques to study the unique biochemical milieu of myofascial trigger points. He is also an instructor in medical acupuncture courses at Harvard Medical School and New York Medical College.
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Dr Mark Strudwick
Dr Strudwick has had continuous involvement in clinical practice of medical imaging since his first qualification in 1974. He has also been continuously involved with the clinical practice of acupuncture since his first qualification in 1976. As recognition for his work in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine he was awarded a Fellowship of the Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association in April 1997. Following a successful clinical career he has returned to research, completing a second PhD in 2008.
Dr Strudwick is a reviewer for the Australian Journal of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, a Member of the Queensland Medical Radiation Technologists’ Registration Board Professional Review Panel and a Member of the Section for Magnetic Resonance Technologists – International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Research interests include functional magnetic resonance imaging and the validation of complementary medicine, particularly Traditional Chinese Medicine; and areas of active research involve functional imaging of the central and autonomic effects of acupuncture.
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A/Professor Lena von Koch
Lena von Koch is currently Associate Professor in Health Services Research at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden where she also received her basic education in physical therapy in 1970. She had further clinical education at Rancho los Amigos Hospital in California and graduate education at Sargent College of Allied Health Professions, Boston University.
Dr von Koch is presently the co-ordinator of the postgraduate program in Health Care Sciences at Karolinska Institutet and also an active researcher with a primary interest in health services research in particular for people with neurological disorders. Her research includes qualitative and quantitative studies of needs of care and rehabilitation with a particular focus on contextual factors and outcomes research of complex interventions.
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Dr Chris Zaslawski
Dr Chris Zaslawski is currently Director of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has been practising acupuncture for 28 years and is also a physiotherapist. He has been a short term consultant for the World Health Organisation for a number of acupuncture related projects in the areas of education, research and clinical practice guidelines.
Chris is an active researcher in the areas of acupuncture and pain, acupuncture clinical research design and human research ethics. He is also deputy editor of the Australian Journal of Chinese Medicine, Australia’s only peer reviewed journal on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
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1-5 October 2009 Sydney Convetion Centre
