Structure

Steering committee

The CEBP is managed by a Steering Committee. The Directors of the CEBP are:

• Associate Professor Robert Herbert
  Musculoskeletal Division, The George Institute for International Health
  Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney
• Dr Catherine Sherrington
  Senior Research Fellow, Musculoskeletal Division, The George Institute for International Health
  Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney
• Dr Anne Moseley
  PEDro Project Manager and Senior Research Fellow, Musculoskeletal Division, The George Institute for International Health
• Professor Christopher Maher
  Director, Musculoskeletal Division, The George Institute for International Health
  Professor, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney
• Dr Mark Elkins
  Senior Research Physiotherapist, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  Clinical Senior Lecturer, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney

Advisory Panel

The CEBP has an Advisory Panel consisting of experts in various fields related to evidence-based practice. Advisory Panel members are:

• Professor Rob de Bie
  Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Maastricht and convenor of the Rehabilitation and Related Therapies Field of the Cochrane Collaboration. Professor de Bie heads the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, Maastricht (a sister organisation for the CEBP).
• Professor Nikolai Bogduk
  Director of the Newcastle Bone and Joint Institute. Professor Bogduk has published extensively on the anatomy, biomechanics, diagnosis and management of neck pain, headache and low back pain.
• Ms Tracy Bury
  Professional Policy Consultant in the World Confederation for Physical Therapy. With her colleagues at Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s Research and Clinical Effectiveness Unit, Ms Bury pioneered the introduction of evidence-based practice to physiotherapy in the United Kingdom.
• Professor Ian Cameron
  Motor Accidents Authority Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine in the Rehabilitation Studies Unit at the University of Sydney. Professor Cameron’s primary research interest is in rehabilitation after hip fracture.
• Professor Sally Green
  Director of the Australasian Cochrane Centre and Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. Professor Green is an active Cochrane reviewer and has an extensive research program focussing on implementation of research findings into practice.
• Associate Professor Marion Haas
  Deputy Director and Principal Research Officer of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at The University of Technology, Sydney. Her research interests include the applications of economics to health services and health policy, and describing and understanding patients’ perspectives of health care.

Researchers

A primary role of the CEBP is the conduct and support of research that will contribute to the effectiveness of physiotherapy healthcare. To achieve this goal the CEBP collaborates with experts in a range of disciplines on projects ranging from clinical trials and systematic reviews to evaluation of methods to rate the quality of clinical trials.

Supporters

The CEBP has a number of supporters who have provided financial support, facilities or other resources, advice on promoting the CEBP’s goals, and professional services (business/legal/computing).

The CEBP’s major financial supporters are currently:

• compulsory third party insurance regulatory bodies in 3 Australian states
• physiotherapy member organisation in 13 countries
• physiotherapy registration boards in 5 Australian states

Friends of the CEBP

The CEBP’s “Friends” are volunteers. To date Friends have provided important assistance in development of the PEDro database.