Dr. Leonie Oldmeadow

Leonie Oldmeadow is an experienced clinician who has been appointed part-time Physiotherapy Clinical Research Coordinator to the departments of physiotherapy at Monash University and Peninsula Health. Leonie has spent the majority of her professional life in acute orthopaedic units of major public teaching hospitals in Melbourne. Her work into identifying patients who are at risk of unnecessary hospital stays after hip or knee replacement surgery has received interest from many Australian hospitals and over seas. The predictor tool developed as part of her doctoral studies has been translated into two other languages at this stage and she has received communication about this work from the USA, Canada, France, Chile, Spain and the UK. An awareness of the Victorian Health Care System’s need to better manage waiting lists for specialist outpatient care in public hospitals, led to a Travel Fellowship to the UK to investigate innovations in the National Health System. On her return to Australia, Leonie then undertook a leadership role with this work, presenting her findings to the DHS and to physiotherapists all around Australia. She was seconded to implement a pilot study at The Northern hospital in Victoria which resulted in a publication in the Medical Journal of Australia.

Teaching Responsibilities

Casual lecturer, selected subjects

Fields of Expertise

Musculoskeletal/orthopaedic physiotherapy (inpatient and outpatient)

Research Interests

Extended scope of practice for physiotherapists, falls risk exercise programs, elective orthopaedic surgery care delivery systems, ankle fractures, exercise for chronic renal disease

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