Roslyn Boyd (Australia)

Session

Focused symposium:  Fit-Active-Habits: Measuring Fitness and Physical Activity in Cerebral Palsy (Speaker)

Biography

Dr. Boyd is a pediatric physical therapist with post graduate training in Biomechanics and Neuroscience. She is Scientific Director of the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research centre, in the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. She has had 5 Australian National Health and Medical Research Council project grants (NHMRC) 3 current (two as CIA) on topics examining population based studies of brain structure and function, longitudinal studies of growth, nutrition and physical activity and randomized trials of novel interventions for children with congenital hemiplegia and infants born preterm. She also has an NHMRC Career Development Award (equiv K24 mid career award). In relation to this symposium, she is supervisor of a doctoral thesis on HPA in Adolescents with CP (Clanchy, et al, 2009) and a study of concurrent validity of the Stepwatch and Actigraph and a published study on reliability and utility of the Cosmed in children with CP (Boyd et al. 2001), senior author on clinimetric reviews on various measurement topics in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (Sakzewski et al. 2007; Spittle et al. 2008; and Gilmore et al. 2009) and meta analyses of efficacy of interventions (Sakzewski et al. 2009; Spittle et al. Cochrane review; Spreckley et al. 2009; Boyd & Hays 2001; Boyd et al. 2001).

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