Professor of Physiotherapy
University College London, United Kingdom
Professor Eleanor Main has worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL’s Institute of Child Health for 29 years, in clinical physiotherapy, postgraduate education and research. She has been Programme Director for Postgraduate Physiotherapy at UCL since 2005 and has supervised 10 PhD students and over 100 MSc project dissertations to date. Her primary research interests relate to clinical efficacy studies in physiotherapy, resulting in substantive advances in the principles of assessment and management of people who require physiotherapy. These have resulted in more than 130 peer-reviewed publications, and attracted over £3.2 million in grant funding, with substantive advances in the principles of assessment and management of children who require physiotherapy.