Louise Ada (Australia)

Session

Focused symposium:  Increasing Practice after Stroke to Optimise Rehabilitation (Speaker)

Biography

Associate Professor Louise Ada has an academic position with teaching, administrative and research responsibilities, in the Discipline of Physiotherapy, Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. She is the Scientific Editor of Australian Journal of Physiotherapy and Chair of the International Society of Physiotherapy Journal Editors. Associate Professor Ada's research career has focused on rehabilitation after stroke. In particular, she has completed high-impact studies examining the contribution of motor impairments to physical disability. In addition, her increasing number of randomised controlled trials into rehabilitation of stroke patients have all been included in the NHMRC-approved guidelines Recovery and Rehabilitation after Stroke. She is head of the Neurology program in the Discipline of Physiotherapy at The University of Sydney where her teaching commitments include undergraduate and postgraduate students at both Masters and PhD level. Associate Professor Ada has raised over $2 million in research grants in her career for studies looking at rehabilitation post stroke and developing teaching resources.

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