Greater Sydney Area
• Independently managed high-volume patient caseload and optimised treatment plans to improve patient outcomes in a high-volume inpatient rehabilitation ward environment. • Co-chaired junior physiotherapist meetings, facilitating peer discussions and synthesising insights to inform senior staff decision-making and targeted professional development initiatives. • Optimised rehabilitation workflows by digitising documentation processes to reduce administrative burden and improve efficiency of patient handovers. • Leading a quality improvement project initiative to implement cardiorespiratory training in stroke rehabilitation, aligning clinical practice with current evidence and coordinating cross-site collaboration towards a multi-site research project.
John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research • Optimised the www.physiotherapyexercises.com website by designing a structured testing checklist and issues register to identify and prioritise critical platform issues, developing a prioritisation matrix to streamline translation of the website into 22 different languages and liaised with external stakeholders to upskill clinicians, support translation, resolve technical issues. • Coordinated a stakeholder focus group and developed implementation resources to support the rollout of a digital exercise prescription implementation project. • Systematically screened 1,800+ journal articles and synthesised key data points from 71 studies to support a scoping review on task-specific training in spinal cord injury through to publication. • Conducted database searches and data extraction to contribute to updates to key physiotherapy guidelines for spinal cord injury patients including the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guidelines and a Cochrane review update on gait training in spinal cord injury. School of Health Sciences, Discipline of Sports Sciences • Developed a video coding tool for analysing basketball ankle sprain and hamstring strain injury mechanisms which helped secure funding from the National Basketball Association. • Supported 3D biomechanics data collection by rapidly upskilling in motion capture protocols and coordinating a team of college basketball athletes through structured drills resulting in successful and reliable data collection.
• Managed a diverse caseload of musculoskeletal conditions including Workers Compensation, Medicare EPC, private, and sports injury clients. • Collaborated with GPs, insurers, and other stakeholders to coordinate care, communicate clinical outcomes, and manage expectations across complex cases.
• Managed high-volume caseloads across multiple clinical rotations (evenings, orthopaedics, musculoskeletal outpatients, rehabilitation, aged care). • Led a quality improvement project to redesign an outpatient referral form, improving information capture and streamlining triage processes for physiotherapy outpatient services.
• Supported physiotherapists in delivering rehabilitation interventions to post-operative orthopaedic patients, including mobility practice, exercise programs, and safe transfers. • Contributed to efficient weekend service delivery by prioritising patients based on surgical timelines, mobility status, and discharge planning needs. • Gained firsthand experience in hospital workflows, interdisciplinary communication, and acute care service coordination.