Invited Speaker

Dr Susan Backhouse

Sports Medicine Australia Sponsored Speaker

"Reviewing research into attitudes towards doping in sport: Time to take stock"

Senior Lecturer In Sport & Exercise Psychology, Carnegie Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Dr Susan Backhouse is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University. Susan became a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society and a full member of the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychologist in 2007. Her main responsibilities include: Programme Leader – MSc Sport and Exercise Science; Research supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate level; Module leader across undergraduate and postgraduate provision; Academic mentor; Chair of the Education sub-group for UK Athletics Anti-Doping Policy and Support team; UK Sport Accredited Anti-doping tutor; Member of the UK Sport Social Research Steering group.
Susan’s research interests include the examination of doping in sport from a social science perspective and she was Principal Investigator on a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned review (http://www.wada-ama.org/en/dynamic.ch2?pageCategory.id=513). She is also interested in the exercise-affect relationship; this research involves a multidisciplinary approach encompassing exercise psychology, exercise physiology and nutrition. Susan has presented her work at international conferences including ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine), BASES, (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences), FEPSAC (European Federation of Sport Psychology), ECSS (European College of Sports Sciences) and ISSP (International Society of Sport Psychology).

Dr Stephen Bird

"Exercise physiology: Current trends in enhancing athletic performance"

Lecturer - Exercise Rehabilitation, Charles Sturt University

Dr. Stephen Bird, PhD, BHMvt(Hons), CSCS, AEP, is Department Head, Strength & Conditioning, Indonesian National Olympic Committee (INOC) for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a position he holds through the School of Human Movement Studies, Charles Sturt University. Dr. Bird’s research aims to improve our understanding of the physiological response(s) associated with nutritive interventions (CHO/EEA ingestion), biochemical signals (hormonal response), and modification of molecular programming (genetic expression), following resistance exercise. The inaugural winner of the AAESS Medal and former recipient of the NSCA Graduate Research Award in the USA, Dr. Bird is an academic member of the South African Medical Research Council Grants Review Board, Australian Strength and Conditioning Association Advisory Panel, and holds positions of elite performance consultant with the Wests Tigers (NRL) and MUSASHI Performance Nutrition. As a practicing exercise physiologist, Dr. Bird coordinates the recently opened Exercise Physiology and Functional Rehabilitation Clinic at Charles Sturt University.

Plenary Keynote

Mr John Buchanan

Asics Sponsored Speaker

"Jurassic Park Revisited: Research and science meets the dinosaur"

Director, Buchanan Success Coaching

John Buchanan became the Australian cricket team coach in 1999 and in 2007 finished a very successful campaign as coach of Australia. John coached the team to a world record number of straight Test Matches (16 wins), One Day International victories (14) and set an unprecedented World Cup record with 2 World Cups and 22 games undefeated. The Australian Cricket Team are the World Cup Champions, Test Cricket Champions and One Day Champions, and also returned the Ashes to Australia in early 2007.
John Buchanan is also renowned for delivering Queensland their first Sheffield Shield title in 1994/5. In five years of coaching Queensland, they won the Sheffield Shield and Mercantile Mutual Cup twice.
John has a degree in Human Movement, a teaching Diploma and a Master of Arts in Sports Administration from Alberta University in Canada. He has also been granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Queensland for his services to sport.This education has influenced John’s coaching style, which is vastly different to those used by cricket coaches for generations. While he was the first coach to use computer analysis of every ball bowled, he retained a unique approach to coach the ‘whole person’ rather than just the athlete.
John was a professional cricket player and represented Queensland in the late 1970’s. He has held positions with the Brisbane Commonwealth Games, the Department of Tourism, Sports and Racing and lectured at the University of Canberra.

Refshauge Lecturer

Professor Wendy Brown

Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Sponsored Speaker

"Stand up, sit down, keep moving: how much activity for a merry and bright old age?"

Physical Activity and Health, University of Queensland

Wendy Brown is Professor of Physical Activity and Health in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland.   She has had a diverse career path with qualifications in physiology, human biology, exercise physiology, and health and physical education.  Her research focuses on physical activity and health promotion, and the prevention and management of chronic illness, from a population health perspective.  She was one of the lead investigators with the '10,000 steps Rockhampton' project, and one of the 'founding' researchers with the Australian Longitudinal of Women's Health, which has been tracking the health of about 40,000 Australian women for the last ten years.  Her current work focuses on the promotion of physical activity for people with chronic disease (including diabetes, osteoarthritis and colon cancer) and the relationships between physical activity and health in women.

Professor Tim Cable

"Exercise, ageing and cardiovascular function"

Director of School, Professor of Exercise Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University

Professor Tim Cable is Director of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences and responsible for the management of this dynamic research and teaching environment. In collaboration with colleagues he strategically manages the delivery of teaching and research related goals, and plans the future developments needed to maintain this Department at the forefront of innovation in Sport and Exercise Sciences in the UK. The School is renown for its excellence in teaching (QAA Subject Review score, 24) and internationally rated research (RAE 5**) and has been recently designated as a Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning with the award of £4.5M to promote Leadership and Entrepreneurship amongst the student body. Tim has been Director of School since 2002, prior to which he was Head of the Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences before it’s designation as a School. Tim completed his undergraduate studies at Liverpool Polytechnic in Sports Science, gained his PhD (Exercise and Ageing) from the University of Western Australia where he subsequently lectured in Exercise Biochemistry, before returning to Liverpool John Moores University in 1993 as Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology. He is currently Chair of the Faculty of Science Research Committee and represents the School of the Faculty of Science Management Team. To date he has successfully supervised 16 PhD and 2 MPhil candidates.

Professor Caroline Finch

"Using behavioural and health promotion theories to guide sports injury prevention and safety promotion"

School Of Human Movement And Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat

Prof Caroline Finch is an internationally leading injury epidemiologist, with a special focus on sports injury prevention. She is Research Professor of Human Movement Science at the University of Ballart in Victoria, Australia. She is as one of the ten most highly published injury researchers of all time, having published research in sports injury, workplace safety, road safety, falls prevention, childhood injury, injury surveillance, and implementation research. She is strongly committed towards ensuring that injury research has a very real impact on the policy and practice setting necessary for injury prevention and control. One of her major interests is in identifying appropriate implementation contexts to enhance the adoption of sports safety measures and optimal processes for the translation of research findings into policy/practice and, ultimately, community uptake. Her other major research area is in methodological advances in sports injury surveillance.

Dr Kristiann Heesch

"Qualitative Methods in Physical Activity Research: An Overview"

Research Fellow in Physical Activity and Health, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland

Dr Kristi Heesch is a Research Fellow in Physical Activity and Health in the School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland. She received a MPH (master of public health) and a DrPH (doctor of public health) in Health Promotion/Health Education at The University of Texas School of Public Health. She came to UQ in 2005 after being in a teaching and research position at the University of Oklahoma for three years. Her current research projects include analyses of the dose-response relationship between physical activity and various health outcomes using population-based datasets, such as that of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health. Her other major research projects include the validation of physical activity instruments, the measurement of physical activity at the population level, and the development of physical activity interventions for special populations. Other research interests include understanding the psychosocial and environmental correlates of physical activity, learning optimal ways to measure these correlates, and using knowledge about them to create interventions which can lead to changes in physical activity behaviour.

Dr Michael Kellmann

"Is recovery important?"

Senior Lecturer of Sport and Exercise Psychology, School of Human Movement Studies and Psychology, The University of Queensland

Michael Kellmann completed his habilitation at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in January 2002 in the area of recovery research and his doctoral dissertation in 1997 at Würzburg University (Germany) in the area of coaches’ behaviour during rest periods. From April 2002 until March 2007 he was head of department of sport psychology at the Faculty of Sport Science at Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany). He is currently a senior lecturer holding a joint appointment with the School of Human Movement Studies and Psychology. Dr Kellmann is a member of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology and German Psychological Association. In addition, he served for six years on the executive board of the German Association of Sport Psychology and is on the editorial board of The Sport Psychologist, Sciences and Techniques of Physical Activities and Sports, the Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie (German Journal of Sport Psychology), and the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin (German Journal of Sport Medicine). Michael Kellmann's current research activities include overtraining prevention and recovery enhancement, sport psychological diagnostics and intervention, coaches behaviour during competition and practice as well as personality and performance competence of coaches in sports. Michael's work has appeared in several publications. He is co-author of Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes: User Manual and edited the book Enhancing Recovery: Preventing Under performance in Athletes both published by Human Kinetics (USA). In his applied work Michael Kellmann has consulted with and conducted research for the National Sport Centre Calgary in Canada, the Olympic Training Centre's in Potsdam and Dortmund/Bochum (Germany), and was the head sport psychologist of the German National Rowing Federation. Under his supervision the team of the department of sport psychology at Ruhr-University of Bochum has established sport psychological consultation for four German sport federations. Michael was the chair of the only education, training, and certification program for German sport psychologist “Sport psychology in high performance sport” of the German Association of Sport Psychology and the German Psychologists Board.

Keynote Speaker

Mr Craig Purdam

"Short cuts, potholes and dead-ends: the race against nature in injury management"

Head of Department, Dept. of Physical Therapies, Australian Institute of Sport

Craig Purdam has a Diploma of Physiotherapy  (Lincoln Institute) 1973-5, a Post-graduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy (Curtin,1992), a Masters in Sports Physiotherapy (Curtin, 2000) and is an Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellow. He is the Head of the Physiotherapy and Massage department, Australian Institute of Sport and has been employed at the AIS since the inception of the physiotherapy department in 1982. He commenced work in Geelong, working from 1978 to 1982 at the Geelong Sports Medicine Clinic as well as in a private practice with Mr. John Lee. Craig was Physiotherapist to the Australian team for 5 Olympic games 1984-2000. Deputy Chief physiotherapist in Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney. He was also the Physiotherapist to the Australian Men's Basketball team 1984-2000 and a present member of Basketball Australia's medical commission. Previous international experience also with the Australian swimming team (1982) and Australian track and field team (1983) as physiotherapist to their respective world championships. Craig has major interests in Tendinopathy and Chronic Hamstring injuries.

Invited Speaker

Mr Dean Robinson

"Development, Integration and Technologies of a High Performance Unit"

High Performance Manager, Geelong Football Club

Dean Robinson has studied both in Australia and abroad in the fields of exercise science and medicine. Dean started his medical studies in the US studying a premedical degree 1996-1998, and has subsequently completed a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science (University of Western Sydney) 1999-2001, a Masters in Physiotherapy (University of Sydney) 2002-2004, and currently undertaking a Ph.D in Physiology and Pharmacology (University of New South Wales) where his area of research is in Proteomics in Sport. Concurrently while studying Dean was a Professional Athlete in the Sport of Rodeo in the US 1996-1998, worked as a Strength and Conditioning coach with Sydney Roosters Rugby League Club 1999-2001, NSW Institute of Sport 2001-2004, became High Performance Manager of Manly Warringah Sea Eagles Ltd. 2004-2006 and currently with Geelong Football Club. Dean has also consulted to a number of elite organizations and athletes as both a Physiotherapist and Strength and Conditioning coach in the sports of Track and Field, Soccer, Cycling, and Triathlon. The understanding obtained through Deans studies along with hands-on experience as both a Physiotherapist and Strength and Conditioning coach has allowed Dean to bring a unique blend of science and art to influence every area of physical preparation.

Invited Speaker

Mrs Trish Wisbey-Roth

"The lumbo-pelvic hip complex-The challenge of optimising intervention to maximise dynamic activity"

Director, Bounce Back Active Rehabilitation Systems

Trish Wisbey-Roth is a physiotherapist in private practice with a special interest in the management of spinal conditions. She is the Founder and Director of Bounce back Active Rehabilitation Exercise Systems, a treatment approach used throughout Australia for clients with various forms of spinal pathology. Trish holds the Sports Physiotherapy title and served on the Australian Physiotherapy Team at the Sydney Olympic Games, 2000. Trish conducts lectures and workshops throughout Australia, presenting material that pertains to the management of various sport-related injuries, and has recently undertaken an outcomes research project investigating the efficacy of the Bounce back Exercise System in clients with spinal pathology.