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William Levack 2020 imageContact details

Email william.levack@otago.ac.nz
Twitter handle: @DrLevack

Current roles

Professor William Levack is Dean of the University of Otago, Wellington, and a member of the Rehabilitation Teaching & Research Unit, in the Department of Medicine.

He is the current President of the New Zealand Rehabilitation Association, and an Executive member of Cochrane Rehabilitation – an organisation he helped establish in 2016.  He is a New Zealand registered physiotherapist.

Research interests

William's work focuses on patient experiences of rehabilitation, goal setting processes, and interventions to increase patient engagement in rehabilitation activities – particularly in the areas of neurological and respiratory rehabilitation.  He has ongoing research projects with colleagues in multiple countries, including Japan, Italy, Germany, Pakistan, Malaysia, and the UK.

Publications

Nishiwaki, H., Levack, W. M. M., Hasegawa, T., Ota, E., Noma, H., Suzuki, T., … Kelly, T. N. (2025). Music-based interventions for people with chronic kidney disease undergoing haemodialysis (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4, CD016139. doi: 10.1002/14651858.Cd016139 Journal - Research Other

Thomas, E. J., Taylor, W. J., Siegert, R. J., & Levack, W. M. (2025). Brain Injury Sense of Self Scale: Psychometric development of a new measure of strength of self-identity after traumatic brain injury. European Journal of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.23736/s1973-9087.25.08721-0 Journal - Research Article

Machalicek, W., Gross, D. P., Armijo-Olivo, S., Ferriero, G., Kiekens, C., Martin, R., … 5th Cochrane Rehabilitation Methodological Meeting participants, including Every-Palmer, S., & Levack, W. M. (2024). The role of single case experimental designs in evidence creation in rehabilitation. European Journal of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.23736/s1973-9087.24.08713-6 Journal - Research Other

Nishiwaki, H., Abe, Y., Suzuki, T., Hasegawa, T., Levack, W. M. M., Noma, H., & Ota, E. (2024). Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for preventing acute kidney injury (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 9, CD014820. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014820.pub2 Journal - Research Article

Battel, I., Arienti, C., Levack, W., Kiekens, C., & Negrini, S. (2024). The new rehabilitation definition for research purposes could improve rehabilitation description in Cochrane Systematic Reviews. Cochrane Evidence Synthesis & Methods, 2, e70000. doi: 10.1002/cesm.70000 Journal - Research Article

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