Paul Hodges

Presentation: Training and Competing on the Edge

Paul Hodges, DSc MedDr PhD BPhty(Hons) FAA FAHMS APAM(Hon)

Paul is a neuroscientist and physiotherapy researcher from the University of Queensland in Australia. He has three doctorates and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Paul’s research has unlocked new understanding of pain, how it relates to how we move, and its rehabilitation. He uses diverse approaches to research from studies of single cells to humans, clinical trials and translation into practice. For this work Paul has won the premier international prize for back pain (the ISSLS Prize) 5 times. He has authored almost 500 peer reviewed papers that have been cited more than 52,000 times and has received more that $52 million in research funds to undertake this work.