Darren Rivett (Australia)

Session

Focused symposium:  Advancing International Post-Professional Educational Standards: Learning from the IFOMPT Experience (Speaker)

Biography

Darren Rivett is Professor of Physiotherapy and Head of the School of Health Sciences at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Darren was self-employed in private practice for over 10 years and coordinated postgraduate manipulative physiotherapy programs at both the University of Sydney in Australia and the University of Otago in New Zealand. He completed his PhD on the validity of pre-manipulative vertebral artery testing at the University of Otago in 2000 and in 2001 he established the discipline of Physiotherapy at the University of Newcastle. In 2004 he published the successful text 'Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists' with Mark Jones which has now been translated into several languages, including Korean, Japanese and German. He has given invited and keynote presentations on clinical reasoning at national and international conferences in many countries and has authored papers and book chapters on clinical reasoning. Darren served as sub-editor of the international journal Manual Therapy for over 10 years and has attracted over $1,000,000 in research grants. Presently he is Chairperson of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA), the largest national group of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and became a member of the Standards Committee for the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists in 2006, after stepping down as Chair of the MPA Professional Practice Standards Committee. Darren was the recipient in 2000 of a national award in New Zealand for the development of an interactive educational resource for the promotion of clinical reasoning skills in manipulative physiotherapy.

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