Rehabilitation Studies

Breast Cancer Survivor Program
The University of Notre Dame Australia is working collaboratively with the University of North Carolina, USA to deliver a unique program is to provide participants with breast cancer with an individualized prescriptive exercise and counselling program.  The program goal is to improve the quality of life of survivors, providing opportunities to strengthen body and mind, post cancer treatment.

Investigators: Dr Fiona Naumann, Prof Martin Philpott, Prof Helen Parker, A/Prof Diane Arnold Read, Prof Beth Hands, A/Prof Tom Brett, Helen Wilson, Claire Woolfitt (Fremantle GP Network), Steve Pratt Cancer Council)
Contact: fnaumann@nd.edu.au

Cancer in the Adolescent and Young Adult Population: Incidence, Survival and Patterns of Care in Western Australia from 1981-2007.

Investigators: Dr Kristjana Einarsdottir (UWA), Ms Fatima Haggar (UWA); Assoc Prof David Preen (UWA); Prof D'Arcy Holman (UWA), Prof Max Bulsara (UNDA).
Contact: mbulsara@nd.edu.au

Green Tea Polyphenols and cancer prevention: Use of Biomarkers and Population Controls to elicit causal pathways.

Chief Investigators:  Prof C D J Holman (UWA), Dr M Zhang (UWA), Prof  X Xie (Zhejiang University), Prof Y Liu (Zhejiang University), Prof X Zhao (Zhejiang University), Prof M Bulsara (UNDA)
Contact: mbulsara@nd.edu.au.

TARGIT: Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Early Breast Cancer.

Investigators: Prof David Joseph (Sir Charles Gardner Hospital), Ms Tammy Corica (Sir Charles Gardner Hospital), Prof Christobel Saunders (UWA), Dr Boon Chua (University of Melbourne), Prof Max Bulsara (UNDA)
Contact: mbulsara@nd.edu.au

The WA Safety and Quality of Surgical Care Project: Improving the Safety, Quality and Provision of Surgical Care.

Investigators:  Prof J Semmens (Curtin University), Ms D Hendrie (Curtin University), Prof M Lawrence-Brown (UWA), Prof D Fletcher (UWA), Prof C Platell (UWA), Prof M Bulsara (UWA).
Contact: mbulsara@nd.edu.au

Lower back pain and cortically directed training programmes
The research aims to determine if a cortically directed training programme has a favourable effect on outcome in patients with disabling chronic low back pain.

Investigators: A/Prof Ben Wand, Neil O’Connell (Centre for Research in Rehabilitation, Brunel University), Dr Lorimer Moseley (Oxford University)
Contact: bwand@nd.edu.au

Levels of muscle activation during unweighted shoulder rehabilitation exercises 

Investigators: Sophia Nimphius, Rhys Powell

Functional mobility and deconditioning after brain and spinal cord injury

Investigators: Prof Peter Hamer, Alison Kirkman
Contact: akirkman@nd.edu.au

Motor recovery after stroke
Investigator: Alison Kirkman
Contact: akirkman@nd.edu.au