Meet The Speakers

Much of our time between shows is spent scouting the best speakers in the game! We are delighted to work with the very best educators in the world as well as those up-and-comers who are destined to go onto great things. Therapy Live continues ‘The Physio Matters Ethos’; no question unasked, all challenges welcome, all views heard. Our moderators help you to hold our speakers to account for their opinions and our interactive interface optimises your ability to participate in every session.

Use the menu below to find out a little bit more about this years guest speakers, you can either browse all of our speakers across all streams, or filter by the specific stream you’re most interested in viewing to just learn about speakers from your area of interest!

 

Chris Cowley
Chris Cowley

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Exercise induced leg pain

Personal Interests:
Climbing, Multi day cycle tours, Cats.

Topic: the differential diagnosis of exercise induced leg pain

Ian Griffiths
Ian Griffiths

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Foot Orthoses, Biomechanics, Injury Mechanisms.

Personal Interests:
Running, Golf, Pizza.

 

Topic: running shoes…discuss

Erik Meira
Erik Meira

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Biomechanics, Dynamical systems theory, knee rehab.

Personal Interests:
Travel, reading, swimming.

Topic: How do we know if our patients have returned to ‘normal’ after lower extremity injury?

Seth O’Neill
Seth O’Neill

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Tendinopathy and calf muscle injuries.

Personal Interests:
Kitesurfing, running and family.

Topic: How does a tendinopathy develop?

Gregory Lehman
Gregory Lehman

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Pain, Biomechanics, Optimism.

Personal Interests:
Trampoline, Flipping, Climbing.

Topic: Does form matter?

Jonathan Bell
Jonathan Bell

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Knees, building teams and services, changing healthcare.

Personal Interests:
Ski, mountains not beach, learning anything new.

Topic: The ITBS cases that we don’t talk about

Peter Malliaras
Peter Malliaras

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Tendinopathy, evidence based medicine.

Personal Interests:
Running (slowly).

Topic: Exercise evidence for tendinopathy: where is the evidence taking us?

Kate Williams
Kate Williams

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Lumbo-pelvic-hip injuries in rugby.

Personal Interests:
Sleep (mum to a 10 month old)!

Topic: Recurring Hamstring Injuries

Jodie Breach
Jodie Breach

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Foot and Ankle, Vestibular, Research.

Personal Interests:
Dance and singing.

Topic: running shoes…discuss

Claire Robertson
Claire Robertson

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Patellofemoral Pain, Fat pad, ITB.

Personal Interests:
Hiking, skiing.

 

Topic: The itbs cases that we don’t talk about

Bradley Neal
Bradley Neal

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Clinical research, Patellofemoral Pain, Knowledge Translation.

Personal Interests:
Baseball, Running, Coffee.

Topic: Current Best Practice for Managing Patellofemoral Pain

Ashley James
Ashley James

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Occupational Health, Back Pain, Research, Resilience, Clinical Reasoning.

Personal Interests:
Rugby, American Football, Family, Exercise, Whiskey, Coffee.

Topic: Spinal Sparing – Necessary?

Rob Tyer
Rob Tyer

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Clinical Reasoning, The Hip, Tendinopathies.

Personal Interests:
Combat Sports, Music, Sci-Fi.

Topic: Cauda Equina Syndrome 

Mary O’Keefe
Mary O’Keefe

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Back pain, media, communication.

Personal Interests:
Sport, music, reading.

Topic: Low back pain – What should we call it and does it matter?

Derek Griffin
Derek Griffin

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Persistent pain, lower limb rehabilitation, health promotion.

Personal Interests:
Distance running.

Topic: Exposure therapy for people with back pain: what does it look like in practice?

Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Radiculopathy, Pain, Clinical reasoning.

Personal Interests:
Bouldering, Hiking, Reading.

Topic: sciatica

Chris Worsfold
Chris Worsfold

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Neck Pain, Narrative Approaches to Pain.

Personal Interests:
Walking, Meditation & Music.

Topic: Neck Pain

Mike Stewart
Mike Stewart

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Pain, communication, education.

Personal Interests:
Travel, guitar.

Topic: “I feel so stupid because I can’t give you a proper answer.” Exploring the challenges & potential solutions of expressing a pain experience.

Roger Kerry
Roger Kerry

Stream: Spinal Pain

Professional Interests:
Clinical Reasoning, Chronic pain.

Personal Interests:
Country, Americana and Folk music.

Topic: Cervical Arterial Dysfunction

Kevin Kuppens
Kevin Kuppens

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Shoulders, Athletes, Pain.

Personal Interests:
Good music, Great coffee, Cycling.

Topic: The Cycling neck and shoulder

Jack March
Jack March

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Rheumatology, Multiple Joint Pain, Osteoarthritis.

 

Personal Interests:
Cycling, Pizza, Harry Potter.

 

Topic: multiple joint pain

Jo Gibson
Jo Gibson

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Communication/Education/ All things shoulders.

Personal Interests:
Football/Wine/Horses.

Topic: cognitively rich rehab of the upper limb

Anju Jaggi
Anju Jaggi

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Shoulder rehabilitation, research, leadership.

Personal Interests:
Cooking, zumba, yoga.

Topic: Unstable Shoulder – what to consider?

Dan Nicholls
Dan Nicholls

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Clinical reasoning, Rehab, Shared decision making.

Personal Interests:
Swim, Bike, Run ….. appropriate huh !!

Topic: Factors affecting ‘the swimming shoulder’

Annina Schmid
Annina Schmid

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Neuropathic pain, Entrapment neuropathies, Neurosciences.

Personal Interests:
Argentine tango dancing, Exercising in the outdoors with our dog, Exploring remote areas of our planet.

Topic: Carpal tunnel syndrome: emerging evidence for Physiotherapy management

Debs Stanton
Debs Stanton

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Wrist and Hand Rehabilitation, Overseas Teaching.

Personal Interests:
Family travel and Diving, Reading.

Topic: Moving Beyond Splinting For Hand Therapy

Val Jones
Val Jones

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
The elbow, the elbow and the elbow.

Personal Interests:
Love football, gin tasting and banana bread tasting.

Topic: Anyone for tennis? Is it all tennis elbow?

Adam Meakins
Adam Meakins

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Upper limbs, Sports injury, Pain.

Personal Interests:
Strength & Conditioning, Social media, Winding up manual therapists!

Topic:  A different take on stiff and painful shoulders!

Thomas G C Mitchell
Thomas G C Mitchell

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
BAHT, Mulligan Concept Teachers Association; Lecturer on The Complete Upper Limb Course.

Personal Interests:
Strategies for improving active transport, Bleep and Bass music, SUFC.

Topic: Application of self-Mobilisation with Movement within modern clinical MSK physiotherapy.

Andrew Cuff
Andrew Cuff

Stream: Upper LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Upper Limb; Red Flags; QI.

Personal Interests:
Cricket; Competing in Strongman competitions; Wine.

Topic: Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain

Simon Smith
Simon Smith

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Bike Fitting. Clinical Governance/APP practice. Sonography.

Personal Interests:
Cycling. Football (watching my boy and United). Rugby (watching my kids).

Topic: Fitting the bike to the athlte or the athlete to the bike?

Joletta Belton
Joletta Belton

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Integrating the lived experience into the study, Research, Treatment of pain.

Personal Interests:
Nature, Reading, and Photography.

Topic: What Patients Need.

Katie Knapton
Katie Knapton

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Evidence based & best practice, Patient engagement, accessible physio.

Personal Interests:
Wine, gin ( in moderation), Exercise (also in moderation) and reading.

Topic: Video physio is a wonderful thing

Neil Langridge
Neil Langridge

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Spinal Pain, clinical reasoning, service leadership.

Personal Interests:
Family, football, music.

 

Meg Lowry
Meg Lowry

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Gerontology, cognition and the social determinants of health.

Personal Interests:
Social justice, environmental conservation and AFL.

Topic: Understand your niche and innovate to serve it.

Reena Patel
Reena Patel

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Exercise Prescription, Physiotherapy curriculum design, Practice Based Learning.

Personal Interests:
Hiking, cycling, reading.

Topic: MSK placements

Paula Deacon
Paula Deacon

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Rehabilitation, Governance, MSK reform.

Personal Interests:
Running, Salsa Dancing, Theatre.

Sara Hazzard
Sara Hazzard

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Communications Strategy, Health Inequalities, Campaigning.

Personal Interests:
Dance, Swimming.

Topic: Campaigning for Rehab

Louise Trewern
Louise Trewern

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Patient Advocate, Vice Chair British Pain Society’s Patient Voice Committee.

Personal Interests:
Walking, gardening, Volunteering.

 

Rupert Crowfoot
Rupert Crowfoot

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
All things MSK, Leadership, Quality & Outcomes.

Personal Interests:
Big Outdoors, Running, Growing/ Cooking/ Eating.

Topic: The Post Covid Landscape

Jemma Oliver
Jemma Oliver

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Creating support networks for therapists, Mental Health in Healthcare, Sports Medicine.

Personal Interests:
Coffee / Wine / My new Puppy Ted 🙂

Topic: the culture of athletics

Maddy Nicholson
Maddy Nicholson

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Motivational Interviewing, Persistent Pain, Movement.

Personal Interests:
Bouldering, skiing, paddle boarding.

Topic: Motivational Interviewing

Heather Watson
Heather Watson

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Functional rehab, Mentoring, Occupational health physio.

Personal Interests:
Walking the dog, Swimming, Reading.

Topic: Functional rehab and occupational health-principles for work, life and play!

Jemma Oliver
Jemma Oliver

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Mental Health, Therapist Support Network, Sports Medicine.

Personal Interests:
Painting / Baking / Being Outdoors.

 

David Gilbert
David Gilbert

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Patient Leadership; Mental Health; Social Justice.

Personal Interests:
Poetry; Nature; Leeds Utd.

Topic: Patient Leadership is Dead – Long Live Patient Leadership

Ann Green
Ann Green

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Higher Education, Global PT community.

Personal Interests:
People, Outdoor Stuff, Food/Wine.

Topic: Education Matters

Susan Karen Lay
Susan Karen Lay

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
MSK, acupuncture, DataforImpact.

Personal Interests:
Beekeeping, sailing, healthy living.

Topic: Quality assurance with Physio First

Martin Fidock
Martin Fidock

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Leadership, service design, digital innovation.

Personal Interests:
Family, Running and Travel.

 

Topic:  MSK service design post Covid

Graeme Wilkes
Graeme Wilkes

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
NHS Community MSK, Pain pathways, Elite Sports Medicine.

Personal Interests:
Sports & MSK Medicine. Persistent Pain. MSK Ultrasonography.

 

Jonathan Hearsey
Jonathan Hearsey

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Evolving models of healthcare, NHS service improvement, change management, healthcare regulation.

 

Personal Interests:
Running, Family, Friends.

 

Rachel Bevins
Rachel Bevins

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Rehabilitation, Research, Parasport.

Personal Interests:
Cycling, paddle boarding, rock climbing.

 

Topic: does form matter?

Pete Moore
Pete Moore

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Supporting people with long-term pain and HCPs that support them.

Personal Interests:
Riding my Harleys.

Topic: Pain self-management 

Mathew Wyatt
Mathew Wyatt

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Rehabilitation. Patient/ Public Education. Public Health.

Personal Interests:
Football. Family. Cycling.

Topic: Clinical Reasoning in Rehabilitation.

Felicity Thow
Felicity Thow

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Persistent pain, reforming MSK practice.

Personal Interests:
Books, Body Pump.

 

Gill Rawlinson
Gill Rawlinson

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Education, workforce, adherence in physiotherapy.

Personal Interests:
Playing netball, baking and travelling.

Topic: What does the future hold for MSK clinical placements?

Emma Salt
Emma Salt

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Upper quadrant pain, AI in health care, Clinically applicable research.

Personal Interests:
Snowboarding, Surfing, drinking wine.

Topic:  MSK service design post COVID 

Martin Docherty
Martin Docherty

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Healthcare Regulation, Digital Health, Clinical Governance.

Personal Interests:
Beach, BBQs and Boxing.

Topic: MSK Care post-COVID – An Insurer / Commissioner Perspective

Professor Graham N Smith
Professor Graham N Smith

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Functional & Sports Specific Rehabilitation, Competency Focused and Problem Solving Education, Manual Therapy.

Personal Interests:
Travel + Movies + Music.

Topic: Is it time for competency based recruitment?

Janet Thomas
Janet Thomas

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
Older peoples rehabilitation, practice based learning, social media.

Personal Interests:
Cooking, Walking, Twitter!

Topic: Considerations for the rehabilitation of the older person

Dr John Etherington
Dr John Etherington

Stream: Core Skills

Professional Interests:
The importance of rehabilitation reform.

Personal Interests:
Sport, Cricket, Walking, reading, Family.

Topic: Rehabilitation – Understanding, funding and delivering it

Mike James
Mike James

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Endurance, Teaching, Evidence informed approaches to care.

Personal Interests:
Endurance events, My two little legends, Reading.

Topic: Elite care for sub-elite athletes

Paula Clayton
Paula Clayton

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Elite Sport, management of sports injuries, rehabilitation.

Personal Interests:
Family, Scuba Diving, Skiing.

Topic: elite care for sub-elite athletes

Rhys Shorney
Rhys Shorney

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Athletic performance enhancement, Movement Coaching, RTP rehab.

Personal Interests:
Playing with my kids, Standing on the biggest mountains possible, Trail running with my dog Jax.

Topic: coaching and therapy-overlaps and distinctions

Matt Philips
Matt Philips

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Putting the EVIDENCE back into Running Injury & Performance.

Personal Interests:
Host of RunChatLive Podcast, Organiser of RCL International Running Conference, Teaching.

Topic: Putting The Evidence Back Into Running Injury & Performance

Oliver Coburn
Oliver Coburn

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Exercise for Health, Policy, Accreditation & Educational Standards.

Personal Interests:
Endurance Sport, Business Literature, Scotch Whiskey.

Topic: What do you mean “functional”

Hannah Morley
Hannah Morley

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
MSK, chronic pain, primary care.

Personal Interests:
Climbing, beaches, travelling.

Topic: Crises, disasters and recovery: learning from the approach of others

Emily Demosthenous
Emily Demosthenous

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Transplant Sport, teaching, rehabilitation.

Personal Interests:
Fitness, food, long hikes!

Topic: Experience on my virtual final year assessment

Claire Minshull
Claire Minshull

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
S&C, Rehabilitation, Neuromuscular Physiology.

Personal Interests:
Lifting stuff, pizza.

Topic: Can we improve endurance athlete performance with resistance training?

Paul Westwood
Paul Westwood

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Human Behaviour and Performance, Endurance Sport.

Personal Interests:
Cycling. Philosophy. Trying not to be a ‘Competitive Dad’.

Topic: Elite care for sub-elite athletes

Nick Grantham
Nick Grantham

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Programme design in injury rehabilitation, recovery and regeneration.

Personal Interests:
Mountain biking, Adventure races, Cake.

Topic: coaching and therapy-overlaps and distinctions

Ben Cormak
Ben Cormak

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Back pain, Exercise, Evidence based practice.

Personal Interests:
Music, boxing, talking shit on social media.

 

 

Andrew McCauley
Andrew McCauley

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
S&C, return to sport, communication.

 

Personal Interests:
Weight training, football, music.

Topic: Lower Limb S&C in Rehab.

Adrian McGregor
Adrian McGregor

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
How to make a ‘Total Recovery’ from Chronic Pain; MSK Reform; Improving overall health.

Personal Interests:
Walking, Football, Dogs and Family.

Topic: Recovery from Chronic pain

Ben Wilkins
Ben Wilkins

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Community MSK, Technology, Co-design, Gamification.

Personal Interests:
Climbing, Cycling, Snowboarding, Festivals (with beer).

Topic: Facilitating entry level participation

Stuart Butler
Stuart Butler

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Hamstring Injuries, High Speed Running, MSK Sonography.

Personal Interests:
Outside, Family, Sport.

Topic: Hamstring Injuries and a return to high speed running

Aly Dixon
Aly Dixon

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Running marathons.

 

Personal Interests:
Coaching, jigsaws to relax.

 

Topic: The culture of athletics

Otieno Martin Ong’wen
Otieno Martin Ong’wen

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Cancer Rehabilitation( Oncology Physiotherapy) Chronic Pain Management. Exercise Rehabilitation.

Personal Interests:
Creating awareness and opportunities in and about the Physiotherapy Profession.

Topic: Exercise Rehabilitation.

Uzo Ehiogu
Uzo Ehiogu

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
MSK rehabilitation, Strength and conditioning , Climbing injuries and Athletic development.

Personal Interests:
Physical training and Family.

Topic: Using data to make informed rehab decisions 

Laura Smith
Laura Smith

Stream: Exercise Rehabilitation

Professional Interests:
Young adult hip pain, Rehab and Education.

Personal Interests:
Chasing toddlers, Playing netball and drinking a cup of tea in peace.

Topic: What does the future hold for MSK clinical placements?

Emma Brockwell
Emma Brockwell

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
Perinatal pelvic health, Pelvic health in female athletes, Promotion of pelvic health.

Personal Interests:
Family time with my husband and 3 kids, running and writing.

Topic: At Your Cervix Podcast LIVE!

Elaine Miller
Elaine Miller

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
Pelvic health; dissemination; public health.

Personal Interests:
Making, moving, mum-ing.

Topic: Why all physios need to understand pelvic health.

Sarah Haag
Sarah Haag

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
All things pelvis, being less wrong, hanging out with clever people.

Personal Interests:
Gardening, Reading and Running.

Topic: Sex – Let’s talk about it!

Nick Lividas
Nick Lividas

 

Professional Interests:
Pelvic Tendinopathies, Injection Therapy, Public Health.

Personal Interests:
Football, Lego & Pokemon

Topic: Pelvic Tendinopathies

Sarah Fellows
Sarah Fellows

 

Professional Interests:
Pelvic Health/ MSK/ Rehabilitation

Personal Interests:
My kids, Paddleboarding, The outdoors.

Topic: Pregnancy Do’s and Don’ts

Illiyin Morrison
Illiyin Morrison

 

Professional Interests:
Birth rights, Racial equality in childbirth, overcoming birth trauma

Personal Interests:
Baking, fashion, podcasts

Topic: Improving pelvic healthcare access and standards for minority groups

James Noake
James Noake

 

Professional Interests:
Tendinopathy; diagnostic & interventional Ultrasound; Athletic hip, groin and buttock pain; complex cases / clinical conundrums; gym injuries

Personal Interests:
Rugby union, my girls, cocker spaniels

Topic: Pelvic Stress Fractures

Nicky Keay
Nicky Keay

 

Professional Interests:
Clinical work with athletes and dancers. Research in field of exercise endocrinology. CMO Forth developing new ways to inform and support womens’ health & exercise

Personal Interests:
Ballet dancer. Playing tennis. Windsurfing

Topic: Relative Energy Deficiency In Sport

Grainne Donnelly
Grainne Donnelly

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
Pelvic health, Postnatal exercise and ultrasound imaging. Also dipping my toe into research and loving it.

Personal Interests:
Tennis, Gardnening and Violin.

Topic: At Your Cervix Podcast LIVE! 

Anna Boniface
Anna Boniface

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
RED-S and bone health, Rehabilitation, Chronic Respiratory Diseases.

Personal Interests:
Running, Cycling, Strength and Conditioning.

Topic: Periods – The “RED-S” flag

Melissa Farmer
Melissa Farmer

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
Chronic Pain, Neuroscience, Sexual Health.

Personal Interests:
Meditation, Writing Poetry, Data Visualization.

 Topic: Sex and Pain

Mehmet Gem
Mehmet Gem

 

Professional Interests:
Hips, Sports Rehab, Social Media.

Personal Interests:
Family time, Good food, All sports.

Topic: FAI of the Female Hip Joint

Sally Kettle
Sally Kettle

Stream: Lower LimbPosium

Professional Interests:
Mental Health / Role Models / Education

Personal Interests:
Adventuring / Volunteering / Paint-by-Numbers

Topic: Pregnancy Do’s and Don’ts

Ayca Aklar
Ayca Aklar

 

Professional Interests:
Women’s and Men’s Health, Kinesiology, Visceral Pain Disorders (Endometriosis)

Personal Interests:
Organizing events on Chronic Pelvic Pain Awareness, Volunteering in Women’s Shelter Foundations, Board member of Turkish Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis Society

Topic: Improving pelvic healthcare access and standards for minority groups

Izzy Moore
Izzy Moore

 

Professional Interests:
Rehabilitation, injury risk, female health

Personal Interests:
Baking, gym, lego

Topic: Female Specific Research Where Is It?

Jo Turner
Jo Turner

 

Professional Interests:
MSK, pain management, clinician well-being

Personal Interests:
In Covid times – very long walks, Netflix and dancing on zoom with anyone I can persuade to join me

 

Topic: Are You Giving Too Much of Yourself

Heather Townsend
Heather Townsend

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
Elite sport, Return to sport post baby.

 

Personal Interests:
Running, Triathlon, Twins.

Topic: At Your Cervix Podcast LIVE!

Sandra Hilton
Sandra Hilton

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
Pain and how to change it, Pelvic Health, and Teaching/Lecturing.

Personal Interests:
Being outside by, on, or in the water, Podcasting, Reading.

Topic: A Path Through Pelvic Pain

Marlize De Vivo
Marlize De Vivo

Stream: Pelvic Health

Professional Interests:
Research, Women’s Health.

Personal Interests:
Coffee, Music, Cocktails.

Topic: Physical activity guidance during pregnancy and the postnatal period.

Rhiannon Griffiths
Rhiannon Griffiths

 

Professional Interests:
Pelvic Health, Menopause and Pathway Management.

Personal Interests:
Brass Bands, Walking the Dogs, Food and Drink.

Topic: Helping Women Navigate The Menopause

Joanne Millios
Joanne Millios

 

Professional Interests:
Male Pelvic Health , Yoga , Sexual Dysfunction in Men

Personal Interests:
Yoga, Travel, Beach

Topic: Male Incontinence

Jacqui Gavin
Jacqui Gavin

 

Professional Interests:
Justice and the legal system, public speaking, coaching and mentoring others

Personal Interests:
Travel, playing the saxophone and time spent with family

Topic: Improving pelvic healthcare access and standards for minority groups

Ann Gates
Ann Gates

 

Professional Interests:
Health, leadership, equity

Personal Interests:
Hiking, gardening, art

Topic: Overcoming Barriers to Exercise for Women

Obi Hasan
Obi Hasan

 

Professional Interests:
Business Transformation, Turnaround, Coaching

Personal Interests:
Cricket, Cooking, Chess

 

Topic: Developing a Private Pelvic Health Service

Matt Scarsbrook
Matt Scarsbrook

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Mental and physical health interactions, complex pain, endurance athletes.

Personal Interests:
Ultra running, snow sports, anything by Nintendo!

Topic: massage matters live-massage for recovery

Leah Dwyer
Leah Dwyer

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Neurophysiology of Touch, Pain Science, Pain Psychology.

Personal Interests:
Sea Kayaking, Bush walking, Bird watching.

Topic: Remedial Massage for Chronic Pain

Oliver Thomson
Oliver Thomson

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Qualitative research, communication and back pain beliefs.

Personal Interests:
Podcasting, lifting heavy things, eating.

Topic: Shifting conversations- Language & Communication strategies for manual therapists

Dr Christopher Norris
Dr Christopher Norris

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Exercise therapy, sports injury management, education.

Personal Interests:
Running, playing guitar, gym.

Topic: Manual therapy of the lower limb

Catherine Quinn
Catherine Quinn

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Interdisciplinary Healthcare, Healthcare Policy, Football Medicine.

Personal Interests:
Travelling, Singing, a good box set!

 

Anna- Maria Mazzieri
Anna- Maria Mazzieri

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Person centred care, Language in Clinical Practice, Raising Standards of Soft Tissue Therapy training.

Personal Interests:
Rugby, Travelling and Philosophy.

Topic: massage matters live-massage for recovery

Rob Beaven
Rob Beaven

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Back pain, tendons, chronic pain.

Personal Interests:
CrossFit, any sport, reading.

Topic: Modern Chiropractic

Shane Lowe
Shane Lowe

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Biomechanics, MSK technology, health tech that works in clinical practice!

Personal Interests:
Football, festivals, startups.

Topic: The role of movement analysis and motion capture in contemporary MSK practice

Paula Clayton
Paula Clayton

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Elite Sport, Management of sports injuries, Rehabilitation.

Personal Interests:
Family, Scuba Diving, Skiing.

Topic: elite care for sub-elite athletes

Becky DeMott Horton
Becky DeMott Horton

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
The role of manual therapy in evidence based MSK care.

Personal Interests:
Triathlon, Labradors, Playing in the sea.

Topic: massage matters live-massage for recovery

Paul Coker
Paul Coker

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Manual therapy, Therapeutic movement, Physio through a neurological lens.

Personal Interests:
Running, surfing, human evolution!!

Topic: Manual therapy through a neurological lens.

Rachel Brammer
Rachel Brammer

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Patient pathways, health technology, musculoskeletal health.

Personal Interests:
Pilates, travel and carbohydrates.

Topic: The role of movement analysis and motion capture in contemporary MSK practice

Benoy Matthew
Benoy Matthew

Stream: Physical Therapies

Professional Interests:
Chronic Hip & Groin Pain, Running Injuries, Shockwave Therapy.

Personal Interests:
Running, Travelling, Cooking.

Topic: Shockwave Therapy in Chronic Lower Limb Tendinopathy 

Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher

Stream: The Business of Therapy

Professional Interests:
Marketing in the digital age, digital transformation in healthcare, data visualisation.

Personal Interests:
MMA, Finding time for sleep between children and work, Tech toys.

Topic: marketing beyond word of mouth

Andy Hosgood
Andy Hosgood

Stream: The Business of Therapy

 

Professional Interests:
Mindset, Entrepreneurship, NLP

 

Personal Interests:
Learning, MMA, being a dad!

Topic: Ethical selling 

Dr Phylliss SantaMaria
Dr Phylliss SantaMaria

Stream: The Business of Therapy

Professional Interests:
Coaching Individuals & Businesses to Purposeful Performance; Social Impact Game at Uni of Nottingham.

Personal Interests:
Writing Book ‘Grandma’s Buick’; social activism, languages.

Topic: Confidence & Clarity in Turbulent Times; Measuring for Success & Making Impact

Liz Hardwick
Liz Hardwick

 

Professional Interests:
Productivity, 4 Day Work Weeks, Entrepreneurship

Personal Interests:
French Press Coffee, Yoga, Travelling

 

 

Sue Juliens
Sue Juliens

 

Professional Interests:
Business management, Spinal Pain, Office Workers

Personal Interests:
Food, Culture, Travel

 

 

 

Aaron Kubal
Aaron Kubal

 

Professional Interests:
Pain, Self-management, Combatting misinformation

Personal Interests:
Fun stuff, Music, Exercise

 

 

 

Sarah Tribe
Sarah Tribe

 

Professional Interests:
Compliance, Education, Regulation

Personal Interests:
Pilates, Family and cryptic crosswords

 

Malcolm Sloan
Malcolm Sloan

Stream: The Business of Therapy

Professional Interests:
Reducing complexity, learning with a practical purpose and empowering therapists to succeed.

Personal Interests:
2 daughters take up most of my time but running whenever I get the chance.

Topic: The art of getting things done. 

Phil Badley
Phil Badley

Stream: The Business of Therapy

Professional Interests:
Leadership coach, Organizational change, NLP.

Personal Interests:
Life long learning, walking, motorcycling.

Topic: Who Needs Feedback! Sub head- harnessing the power of feedback to drive business performancE

Obi Hasan
Obi Hasan

Stream: The Business of Therapy

Professional Interests:
Business Transformation, Turnaround, Coaching

 

Personal Interests:
Cricket, Cooking, Chess

 

 

Sarah Collier
Sarah Collier

 

Professional Interests:
Sexual Harassment, Discrimination in the workplace including disability discrimination and cancer in the workplace, Senior Exit Strategies

Personal Interests:
The great outdoors with the family, Netball, Music gigs

 

Alexandra Smiljanic
Alexandra Smiljanic

Professional Interests:
Patient Communication, Practitioner Success, Business Growth

Personal Interests:
Dancing, Baking and Yoga

 

Leanne Antoine
Leanne Antoine

 

Professional Interests:
Foot and Ankle. Sports injuries – gymnastics/MMA Foot and Ankle injuries

Personal Interests:
Public speaking, Cooking, Fitness

 

Ishmael Beckford
Ishmael Beckford

 

Professional Interests:
Management & Leadership, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Business Development

 

Personal Interests:
Food, Football and Jiujitsu

 

Celia Champion
Celia Champion

Stream: The Business of Therapy

Professional Interests:
Speaking engagements; Business Consultancy; Leadership training.

Personal Interests:
Golf; Cooking; Running.

Topic: Leading for Success or Survival

Gabriel Flores
Gabriel Flores

Stream: The Business of Therapy

Professional Interests:
Coaching Individuals & Businesses to Purposeful Performance; Social Impact Game at Uni of Nottingham.

Personal Interests:
Ultramarathons (100+ Miles), Singing & Songwriting, Live-streaming show daily.

Topic: Confidence & Clarity in Turbulent Times; Measuring for Success & Making Impact

Brent Morrison
Brent Morrison

 

Professional Interests:
Business growth, Aligning Personal & Business Goals, Innovation 

Personal Interests:
Cycling, Cooking, Always striving to create a successful business around the lifestyle I want to have

Sebastian de Neergaard
Sebastian de Neergaard

 

Professional Interests:
Growth, Creating a succession plan, Buying and Selling businesses

Personal Interests:
Setting and achieving big goals and dreams, Be all I can be, Extreme positivity

 

Darren Jenkinson
Darren Jenkinson

 

Professional Interests:
Digital Marketing, Lead Generation, Content Marketing

Personal Interests:
Business Development, Fitness, Film

 

 

 

Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding

 

Professional Interests:
Compliance, Education, Regulation

Personal Interests:
Food, Yoga, Family