Honoured to have received the runner-up award at the Rapid-fire Research Showcase at ANZMUSC this October! Grateful for the opportunity to present my work and connect with brilliant minds in the field. 🌟

🎉 Congratulations to Travis Haber who received the 2024 ANZMUSC OA SIG Osteoarthritis Paper of the Year for 'Effects of Hip Pain Diagnostic Labels and Their Explanations on Beliefs About Hip Pain and How to Manage It: An Online RCT' jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

The Melbourne Group Scale (MGS) was developed by physiotherapists at the University of Melbourne, in 2001, to objectively diagnose a postoperative pulmonary complication. Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

✨Over the last months of 2024, we are thrilled to highlight the Best Abstract Founder Award winners from IAS10_2024 The first recipient we congratulate is Patrick Rowe from Victoria University & the University of Melbourne (Australia). Congrats, Patrick! 👏 Patrick Rowe

Congratulations to visiting PhD student Ziru Wang (Ziru Wang) for her National Scientific Fitness Guidance Model Award by the General Administration of Sport of China 👏 Ziru's PhD project involves a community-based exercise intervention for those with knee #osteoarthritis

🏆Teams and individuals from the Melbourne School of Health Sciences have won 7 (!!!!) awards in the University of Melbourne Excellence Awards. An outstanding result reflecting the incredible work across the School. Congratulations to all winners! UniMelb MDHS go.unimelb.edu.au/zwk8

Congratulations to the newest Professors in the Department of Physiotherapy! Fiona Dobson (Fiona Dobson) and Helena Frawley (Helena Frawley) announced as promoted to full Professor 👏

Relationship between number of different lower‐limb resistance exercises prescribed in a program and exercise outcomes in people with knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review with meta‐regression CHESM Prof Rana Hinman acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…

Just published! Work led by Dr Belinda Lawford on the relationship between number of exercises and exercise outcomes in people with knee #osteoarthritis

👀📰#RCT on home exercise for #LungCancer patients after surgery: While it didn't improve self-report physical function, it ⬆️#ExerciseCapacity , #QOL & #SelfEfficacy up to 6 months! Program had high #PatientAdherence. Promising #HomeRecovery approach! ja.ma/4eZQTJ0

🙏#editorial by #BrettBade and #CatherineAlfano on our trial Addressing Unanswered Questions in Lung Cancer Survivorship Care—Home-Based Physical Activity After Surgery jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… A/Prof Selina Parry Linda Denehy Lara Edbrooke Georgina Whish-Wilson

Yes so important now to improve access for all patients undergoing surgery and particularly with move to 🇦🇺 #lungcancer screening in 2025!

📣 Just published! Is exercise effective for knee osteoarthritis? A Cochrane systematic review Led by Dr Belinda Lawford with collaborators: Michelle Hall Prof Rana Hinman Libby Spiers Alexander Kimp Kim Bennell 🔗cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

Congratulations to CHESM team members recognised at the 2024 UniMelb MDHS Recognition of Staff Years of Service event yesterday 🎉 10+ yrs Kade Paterson Penny Campbell Libby Spiers 20+ yrs Ben Metcalf Prof Rana Hinman Adam Bryant 25+ yrs Kim Bennell Team colour-coordinated too!

#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 The Cochrane Library Reviews 48 EXERCISE FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS Update shows low to moderate certainty evidence of short-term improvements but these were of uncertain clinical importance cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10… CHESM Belinda Lawford

Our Cochrane review of exercise for knee osteoarthritis has just been published! 👇 doi.org/10.1002/146518… Thanks to co-authors, including Michelle Hall Kim Bennell Prof Rana Hinman Libby Spiers Alexander Kimp Andrea Dell'isola CHESM Physiotherapy UniMelb

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Congratulations to Dr Belinda Lawford, just announced as a recipient of a 2025 Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship! 🎉👏 Prof Kim Bennell also had her Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship renewed for 2025 👏 These are designed to nurture and reward high-performing researchers 🤩

Congratulations to Prof Prof Rana Hinman and the rest of the PEAK Study team The PEAK RCT was awarded the Health Services Research Association of AU & NZ Health Services & Policy Research Best Overall Paper for 2024 🤩👏 hsraanz.org/2024-hsraanz-a… UniMelb MDHS Professor Bruce Thompson AM

Prof Rana Hinman Health Services Research Association of AU & NZ UniMelb MDHS Professor Bruce Thompson AM Paper here: thelancet.com/journals/lance…