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Professor Kay Crossley
Prof Crossley is the director of the La Trobe’s Sports and Exercise Research Centre and her main research focus is on the management of hip and knee pain, especially around the relationship between acute injuries and osteoarthritis development. Prof Crossley has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and in 2020 was awarded the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation in life sciences, the first allied health professional ever to receive this award. |
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Associate Professor Joanne Kemp
A/Prof Kemp is the co-project lead of the GLA:D Australia Program and is responsible for the oversight of the GLA:D Australia Program with A/Prof Barton, including overseeing the provision of the physiotherapy education, management of GLA:D® program resources and the GLA:D® registry. A/Prof Kemp is an internationally recognised researcher publishing research on the areas of hip and groin pain, femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and hip osteoarthritis. |
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Associate Professor Christian Barton
A/Prof Barton is the co-project lead of the GLA:D Australia Program and is responsible for the oversight of the GLA:D Australia Program with A/Prof Kemp, including overseeing the provision of the physiotherapy education, management of GLA:D® program resources and the GLA:D® registry. A/Prof Barton is an internationally recognised researcher publishing research on the areas of knowledge translation, knee injuries, running and knee osteoarthritis. |
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Dr Marcella Ferraz Pazzinatto
Post doctoral research fellow and Project Manager |
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Dr Danilo De Oliveira Silva
Post doctoral research fellow |
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Dr Josh Heerey
Post doctoral research fellow |
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Dr Allison Ezzat
Post doctoral research fellow |
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Karen Dundules
Research Officer, Clinical Liaison (Public & Community Health) and Training Coordinator |
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Matt Francis
Research Officer, Clinical Liaison (Private Health) and Training Coordinator |
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JASON WALLIS (Tutor and Researcher) is an experienced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist for Cabrini Health, and was the first physiotherapist to implement GLA:D Australia. | |
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JANE ROONEY (Tutor) is a Specialist Sports Physiotherapist – sub speciality knee and Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (1997) with over 25 years clinical experience. | |
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ZUZANA PERRATON (Tutor) is a titled Sport and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with over 15 years experience. She works privately and as a senior research assistant at La Trobe Sports and Exercise Medicine Research Centre while completing her PhD. |
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DAVID THWAITES (Tutor) is an experienced Physio based at Complete. Physio Exercise Performance in Richmond. Dave is in the final stretch of completing a Masters by Research at La Trobe exploring the efficacy of treatment for patellofemoral osteoarthritis (PFOA), and how people with PFOA make decisions about their treatment. | |
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CHRISTIAN BONELLO (Tutor) is part of the teaching team for the undergraduate physiotherapy course at La Trobe University, and after spending time implementing GLA:D in Denmark as a student, was one of the first physiotherapists to learn and begin implementing the GLA:D Australia Program. |
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ALI GIBBS (Tutor) is a Senior OAHKS Physiotherapist at Eastern Health and Access Health and Community. She trained in the GLA:D program in 2017, and began tutoring and lecturing with the course in 2018. |
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Dr NATALIE COLLINS (Queensland – State Lead) | |
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Dr MICHELLE SMITH (Queensland – State Lead) |
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Dr JP CANEIRO (Western Australia – State Lead) is a Specialist Sports Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2013) and a PhD in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. He is a researcher at Curtin University and also lectures in the Clinical Masters in Physiotherapy. |
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Prof PETE O’SULLIVAN (Tutor) is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2005) and Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Curtin University. |
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KATE BEERWORTH (South Australia – State Lead) is an experienced APA Sports Physiotherapist who has extensive experience with soccer (former Matilda’s head Physio) and netball related injuries and is passionate about ACL prevention and ACL rehab. | |
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NATALIE TYSON (Tutor) is an experienced APA Sports, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist who has extensive experience in managing netball, swimming and running related injuries. |
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ELOISE JAMES (Northern Territory – State Lead) is an experienced Physiotherapist and was the first GLA:D accredited Physiotherapist in the NT. | |
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DANIEL VUKOVIC (Tutor) is an experienced Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and was the first GLA:D accredited Physiotherapist in NSW. | |
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KAY ROBINSON (Tutor) is an experienced Physiotherapist and was the first GLA:D accredited Physiotherapist in NSW. |
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FIONA HAMILTON (Tutor) is an experienced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and was the first GLA:D accredited Physiotherapist Tasmania. |