Associate Professor Gavin Williams

Erin and Matt sit down and chat with A/Prof Gavin Williams to hear his thoughts on Traumatic Brain Injury management, returning to higher levels of mobility, strength training, spasticity and trail blazing the clinical academic role with Epworth Healthcare, Melbourne, Australia.1:50 - Introduction2:10 - Career Pathway3:00 - Inspiration behind the HiMAT4:25 - Why TBI and why running?Traumatic Brain Injury7:15 - What to consider when treating TBI patients9:45 - Avoiding compensations, are we delaying independence?11:00 - The mobility hierarchy13:30 - Safety and Improving higher level mobilityStrength Training in Neurological Rehab16:55 - Specificity!Spasticity in Neurological Rehabilitation19:50 - The state of spasticity and the current arguments21:30 - SPECIFICITY!23:12 - Observation and BiasResearch in Rehabilitation25:10 - How Gavin created an army of researchers at Epworth Healthcare27:00 - Fellowship, Management or Researcher: Mentors are Essential28:55 - Bridging the gap between Researcher and Clinician31:45 - Building the Clinical Researcher role33:40 - How to start your research journey35:25 - Where Gavin's research is going now