Presenters
Myles Murphy
Dr. Myles Murphy is a post-doctoral research fellow with a special interest in the use of neuroscience interventions in the management of lower-limb pain and injury to increase physical performance. Dr. Murphy completed his PhD in tendinopathy at The University of Notre Dame Australia, which was given an academy award by the British Journal of Sports Medicine and according to ExpertScape he is in the top 0.3% of published tendinopathy researchers worldwide. Dr. Murphy has over 40 publications, and is currently undertaking research into injury with numerous industry collaborators such as the Western Australian Police Force, Perth Wildcats and West Coast Eagles. Dr. Murphy is a fellow of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation, a titled Sport and Exercise physiotherapist, has previously worked with elite sporting teams and still consults within a large, multi-disciplinary Sports Medicine clinic (SportsMed Subiaco).
Ebonie Rio
Ebonie is a National Medical Research Centre post doctoral research fellow at La Trobe University Sport and Exercise Medicine Centre. She completed her Phd in neuroscience and tendon pain in 2015, Masters Sports Phys, Ba. Phys (hons) and Ba. App Sci. Her research has been awarded Victorian Fresh Scientist of the year 2015, ASICS SMA Best New Investigator 2004, 2013 & 2014 in Clinical Sports Medicine, best clinical science Pain Adelaide 2013, BJSM young investigator Best Clinical Paper 2014 and the Professor Mollie Holman medal for the best thesis of the faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Monash University 2015 and the ECR best paper 2015. Her clinical career has included Australian Institute of Sport, The Australian Ballet Company, Melbourne Heart football club, Alphington Sports Medicine Centre, Victorian Institute of Sport, Commonwealth Games 2006, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics, 2012 London Paralympics, 18 months travelling with Disney's The Lion King stage show (Melbourne and Shanghai tour) and she was awarded the Post-Graduate Scholarship at the AIS (2007).