Speakers
International
Professor David Buchner (USA)
Professor Karim Khan (Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Australia
Associate Professor Jacqueline Close (Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney)
Dr Terrence Haines (Monash University, Melbourne)
Professor Stephen Lord (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney)
Associate Professor Hylton Menz (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
Dr Stuart Smith (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney)
New Zealand
Professor John Campbell (Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago)
Professor Ngaire Kerse (School of Population Health, University of Auckland)
Associate Professor Clare Robertson (Dunedin School of Medicine,
University of Otago)
International
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Professor David Buchner
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Professor Karim Khan |
Australia
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Associate Professor Jacqueline Close |
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Dr Terrence Haines Dr Terry Haines has a background in physiotherapy and health economics and is the Director of the Allied Health Clinical Research Unit for Southern Health (Australia) and Director of Research for the Southern Physiotherapy Clinical School, Monash University. Dr Haines has attracted over $(AUD)5.5 million in research grants and tenders since completing his PhD in 2005 including a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Award (2010-2013). His principal area of research is the prevention of falls amongst hospital patients where he has led randomised trials, a cluster-randomised trial and several prospective cohort observational studies. The largest intervention trial he has led is a randomised controlled trial of a multi-media patient education program conducted across acute and subacute hospital wards (n=1206). This multi-media education program is the second version of an education program that Dr Haines designed and evaluated in the first randomise d trial of an intervention program to reduce falls in the hospital setting. |
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Professor Stephen Lord Professor Stephen Lord is a Principal Research Fellow at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. He has published over 200 papers in the areas of applied physiology, instability, falls and fractures in older people and is acknowledged as a leading international researcher in his field. His research follows two main themes: the identification of physiological risk factors for falls and the development and evaluation of falls prevention strategies. He is also actively engaged in initiatives aimed at implementing falls prevention evidence into policy and practice. His methodology and approach to falls-risk assessment has been adopted by many researchers and clinicians across the world. He has co-written two editions of “Falls in Older People - risk factors and prevention strategies". Updated in 2007, this book comprehensively summarizes the research evidence base undertaken in this field. |
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Associate Professor Hylton Menz
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Dr Stuart Smith Dr Stuart Smith is a Senior Research Officer at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. He has both an MSc and PhD in Experimental Psychology with postdoctoral work at the NASA Ames Research Centre in California followed by academic posts at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. His research interests involve the development and evaluation of telehealth technologies, in particular for monitoring fall risk in older adults. Prior to returning to Australia in 2007, Dr Smith was involved in the Technology Research for Independent Living centre (http://www.trilcenter,org) in Ireland. He is Chair of a Health Informatics Society of Australia Special Interest Group on Games for Health and is coordinating activities between health researchers and the video games industry in Australia. Dr Smith's research is supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia Career Development Award-Industry, NHMRC Project and NHMRC Partnership grants. |
New Zealand
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Professor John Campbell |
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Professor Ngaire Kerse |
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Associate Professor Clare Robertson |
