30th Anniversary Symposium

Some of the Faculty’s leading scientists deliver short presentations that showcase their pioneering work and its impact on improving health and quality of life.

From healthy ageing to the importance of children’s play, these bite-sized insights give you a taste of the future of health care in Australia and internationally.


Best Practices in Rehabilitation

 

Back pain: back to basics

Professor Kathryn Refshauge

You really want me to exercise!.. but I'm being treated for breast cancer..

Associate Professor Sharon Kilbreath

Debunking the core strength myth in rehabilitation

Dr Cath Dean

Exercise and walking after spinal cord injury

Associate Professor Glen Davis

Tools for assessing rehabilitation needs

Associate Professor Elias Mpofu

   

Healthy Ageing

 

Babyboomers face retirement during the economic crisis

Professor Hal Kendig

Strategy for family and Carers: engaging people with dementia in daily life activities

Professor Mark Mathews

Sexy and Sixty

Dr Patricia Weerakoon

   

Keeping Children Safe

 

Popping the bubble wrap rethinking children's play

Professor Anita Bundy

Safe Koori Kids: Community based approached to injury prevention.

Dr Freidoon Khavarpour

   

Planning a Better Health Future

 

Health Issues 20 years from now

Professor Deborah Black

Dynamics without change: Australia's health workforce

Professor Stephanie Short

New Directions in Health Education - presentation doc

Professor Andrew Gonczi


Exercise, Health and Performance

 

Nutrition for health and peak performance

Dr Helen O'Connor

 

 

   

Living Well and Dying Well

 

Work? Life? Where's the balance?

Professor Phil Bohle

Educating health professional on end of life issues

Professor Glennys Howarth

   

Imaging & Radiation Sciences

 

Imaging: a21st century tool for improved medical care

Professor Patrick Brennan

The nuclear sciences in health: from in vitro to vivo- translating the microscopic to the macroscopic

Professor Richard Banati

   

Patient Safety, E-Health & Classification

 

Computers on Wheels: Mobile technologies improving the safety of our hospitals

Professor Johanna Westbrook

New directions in electronic health records

Professor Robert Steele

Health Classifications: in sickness and in health; even after death do us part

Professor Richard Madden

   

Living and Disability

 

Families living with disability

Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn

New breakthroughs in treating childhood developmental disorders

Professor Stewart Einfeld

Brain Injury in the community: training communication partners makes a difference

Associate Professor Leanne Togher