Associate Professor Garry Allison

Garry Allison is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Trauma Physiotherapy. He holds a joint appointment at Curtin University of Technology and Royal Perth Hospital, which allows focused and directed research at the clinical level.

A/Professor Allison graduated and then completed a doctorate in Physiotherapy through Curtin, going on to specialise in Sports Physiotherapy and later becoming a Titled Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. He established the Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies (Postgraduate Physiotherapy Education) at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2000 and spent the subsequent seven years developing the teaching program. During this time he was awarded a UWA Teaching Fellowship.

A/Professor Allison now focuses predominantly on Neuroscience research. With experience in motor control in elite athletes as well as individuals with spinal pain and spinal cord injury, he is well known nationally and has teaching and research collaborations in Japan, India and the USA. He is the Coordinator of Higher Degrees by Research at Curtin's School of Physiotherapy, has a continuing Research Fellowship at the Australian Institute of Sport and is involved in the editorial process of several Physical Therapy journals.

Garry Allison is a Chief Investigator on the Move Again Program (MAP) and on the VNI-funded SCIPA program (see under Professor Sarah Dunlop). He is also conducting an NRP-funded clinical trial of dynamic neurological rehabilitation, specifically running, for patients with acquired brain injury at Royal Perth Hospital's Shenton Park Campus.

Current NRP (Chief) Co-investigators:
MAP investigators (see under Professor Sarah Dunlop)
A/Professor John Buchanan, Royal Perth Hospital