Invited presentations
* most notable
Research in the NHS: a users guide. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS
Trust/ University of Warwick. June 2002
The role of physiotherapy: Arthritis in Old Age. Royal Society of Medicine and University of
Warwick joint conference. March 2002, University of Warwick.
Fall prevention: An update on research to inform practice and development. Oxfordshire
Falls Prevention Group, Witney, March 2002.
Patterned Neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Chartered Society Special Interest Group in
Electrotherapy, Annual Study Day, Solihull Hospital, November 2001.
*Results of the Legs for Life programme. Action on Orthopaedics Steering Committee,
NHS Modernisation Board, Department of Health. 12th November 2001, London.
* Cochrane review of prevention of falling in older people. Invited presentation to
European Commission Expert Working Group on Falls and Postural Stability.
Brussels. September 2001
Fall prevention and management: Evidence and Issues. Inter-professional study day, Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. July 2001.
* Risk factors for falling in community dwelling older women with stroke. National
Institute on Aging/Welch Centre for Prevention, Johns Hopkins University, Bethesda,
USA, May 2001.
Falls in older people: Current research and national standards of practice. Lincolnshire Health
Authority, Lincoln, March 2001.
Prevention and management of falls in older people: Current literature and recommendations
for practice. Institute of Rehabilitation, Hull University, March 2001.
Screening for risk of falling. Southampton University 2000.
Prevention of falls and fall related injuries. Inaugural Physiotherapy Research Seminar Feb
2001, Coventry University.
Managing falls in older people: Current research. Oxfordshire Community NHS Trust,
Regional Falls Study Day, Witney, Oxfordshire, March 2001
Meta-analysis: Theory and Practice. HSS research staff training programme, Coventry
University. December 2000.
*Design of large-scale trials in disability prevention. Clinical Trials Support Unit,
University of Oxford, July 2000.
*Reducing the burden of hip fracture: epidemiological and clinical approaches. Annual
Congress of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Birmingham October 2000.
*Risk factors for falling in women with stroke. Welch Centre for Prevention, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, June 2000.
The Oxfordshire Low Back Pain Trial. Warwick Hospital Physiotherapy Department, May
2000.
The effectiveness of chronic disease management programme in people waiting for elective
total knee replacement surgery: The Oxford Experience. Joint musculo-skeletal services
commissioning group, Oxford Feb 2001.
Falls in the elderly. Plenary session for the Fourth Coventry Medical Conference in
Healthcare of the Elderly, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, 2001.
An RCT to investigate the effectiveness of Health Walks in increasing physical activity in
sedentary people. Health Walks Symposium, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2000.
An evidence based approach to developing effective rehabilitation after PFF West Midlands
Evidence Based Occupational Therapy Forum, Coventry, 2000.
* Requirements of a good outcome measure for fracture repair. Keynote speaker:
International Society for Fracture Repair, Oxford 1999.
Early management of proximal femoral fractures. Scientific meeting of the Association of
Chartered Physiotherapists in Orthopaedics, Oxford UK, 1999
Non-surgical alternatives to the management of arthritic joints. Oxford Health Authority
Waiting List Initiative Task Group, Oxford, UK, 1999.
Efficacy of total knee replacement in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee. British
Society for Rheumatology XV Annual General Meeting. Brighton, UK. 1998
*An overview of programmes of chronic disease management in community and
institutional care settings in the United States and their application to the UK. Active
for Later Life Conference Birmingham, UK 1997
Improving the clinical usefulness of research data. Oxford Research Interest Group, Oxford.
1997
Basic statistics. Oxford Acute Care Trusts, Oxford, UK. 1997
Television interview with South East News (BBC) - implications of new breakthroughs in
pain physiology and management for people with chronic joint diseases, Feb 1997.
* Living life to the Full : Improving health and functional ability in oldest age.
Commonwealth Fund of New York and Centre for Philanthropy, University of
Indianapolis, United States, 1996.
Outcome measures for physiotherapy; theory and practice. Clinical Interest Group
Conference, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, 1994.
* Innovations in rehabilitation after proximal femoral fracture. European Society of
Gerontology, Oxford UK 1993
* Exercise and the importance of physical fitness in the third age. Presentation to the
Carneghie Inquiry into the Third Age, consensus workshop, Windsor, 1992.