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All profits will be used to support the mission.
Mission
Meet our Team
Dr JP Caneiro
Australia
Director
Creative works co-lead
Evထlve certified CFT trainer
Prof Peter O'Sullivan
Australia
Director
Creative works co-lead
Evထlve certified CFT trainer
A.Prof Peter
Kent
Australia
Evထlve Project Manager
Dr Jay-Shian
Tan
Australia
Evထlve creative works, web design, social media
Dr Riikka
Holopainen
Finland
Evထlve creative works
Dr Ian
Cowell
UK
Evထlve creative works and Evထlve certified CFT trainer
Meet our Team
Leadership
Prof Peter O'Sullivan
Australia
Evထlve director
Evထlve certified CFT trainer Creative works co-lead
Dr JP Caneiro
Australia
Evထlve Director
Evထlve certified CFT trainer
Creative works co-lead
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainers
Australia
Peter O'Sullivan
JP
Caneiro
Brazil
JP
Caneiro
Europe
Kjartan
Vibe Fersum
Norway
Wim
Dankaerts
Belgium
Kasper
Ussing
Denmark
Irene
Stegemejer
Denmark
Jannick
Johansen
Denmark
United Kingdom
Ian
Cowell
Gurpreet
Singh
Chris
Newton
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Australia
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Dr Jay-Shian Tan
Australia
Evထlve creative works, web design, social media
Jay is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy educator and clinician. He is passionate helping clinicians translate evidence into practice through personalised face-to-face and online mentoring. He has extensive experience as an undergraduate and postgraduate educator in the university sector and provides professional development and mentoring for graduate clinicians in their practice.
- PhD | MSc Musc. Physio | BSc Physiotherapy
- Titled Member of the Australian College of Physiotherapy
- Clinical Consultant at Flex.Physio
- Clinical educator
Dr Riika Holopainen
Finland
Evထlve creative works
Riikka is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy researcher and educator. She is pasionate about identifying best practice rehabilitation and enabling ways for clinicians to deliver that care.
- Physiotherapist
- PhD | PT
- Consultant at MoveDoc
- Clinical educator
Dr Ian Cowell
United Kingdom
Evထlve creative works and Certified CFT trainer
Ian is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy educator and clinician with a particular interest in the management of persistent musculoskeletal pain disorders. His research focus is how person-centred communication is enacted in physiotherapist-patient interactions.
- PhD | MSc Musc. Physio
- Director and clinician - Brook Physio
- Clinicial educator
Prof Peter O'Sullivan
Australia
Evထlve director, certified CFT trainer,
creative works co-lead
Pete is an internationally recognised as a leading clinician, researcher and educator in musculoskeletal pain disorders. Over the past 20 years, Pete and his team have developed a novel management approach for people with disabling low back pain – called 'Cognitive Functional Therapy'. Pete's passion is to bridge the gap between research and practice – in order to empower researchers, educators and clinicians in the provision of person-centred care for people in pain.
- Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist*
- Director Body Logic Physiotherapy
- John Curtin Distinguished Professor Curtin University
(as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2005)
Dr JP Caneiro
Australia
Evထlve director, certified CFT trainer,
creative works co-lead
JP is an emerging leader in the field of chronic pain, particularly the management of back pain and osteoarthritis. He is passionate about mentoring clinicians to ensure the highest level of care is provided in clinical practice. Born and raised in Brazil, JP also speaks Portuguese fluently and is committed to affordable translatable knowledge that is accessible to clinicians regardless of country.
- Specialist Sport Physiotherapist*
- Titled Pain Physiotherapist
- Director Body Logic Physiotherapy
- PhD | MSc Musc. & Sports Physio
- Adjunct Clinical Senior Researcher - Curtin University
(as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2013)
Assoc Prof Peter Kent
Peter is a musculoskeletal pain researcher and was the lead researcher on the RESTORE trial for people with low back pain. For more than 20 years he practiced as a Physiotherapist & Chiropractor.
- Clinical Epidemiologist
- PhD | Grad.Dip.Manip.Physio | B.App.Sc.(Physio) | B.App.Sc (Chiro)
- Adjunct Associate Professor - Curtin University & Macquarie University
- Mindfullness teacher
Assoc Prof Kjartan Vibe Fersum
Norway
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainer
- PhD | MSc Musculoskeletal Physio | BSc Physio
- Director and Clinician at Health In the Center (Bergen, Norway)
- Associate Professor at University of Bergen (UIB)
- Lecturer for Musculoskeletal Masters programme (UIB)
- Clinical educator
Assoc Prof Wim Dankaerts
Belgium
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainer
Wim is a musculoskeletal physiotherapy clinician, researcher and educator with a particular interest in the integration of a multi-dimensional clinical reasoning process and person-centred communication to enhance self-management in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain disorders.
- Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy - University of Leuven, Belgium
- PhD – PT – MT
- Clinical Director and Clinician - @PVMT, Tienen, Belgium
- Clinical educator
Kasper Ussing
Denmark
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainer
- Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
- Master of Manipulative Therapy (Curtin University)
- Co-owner Spine & Mind Fysio
- Coordinator of Unit for Cross Sectional Cooperation (spinal care) - Spine Centre of Southern Denmark
Gurpreet Singh
United Kingdom
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainer
- Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
- BSc | M Research
- Clinical educator
- Guest lecturer University of Coventry and University of Leicester
Dr Chris Newton
United Kingdom
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainer
- Consultant Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and clinical academic at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire
- PhD | MSc Advanced Musculoskeletal Practice
Irene Stegemejer
Denmark
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainer
- Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
- Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Odense University Hospital
- Co-owner Spine & Mind Fysio
Jannick Johansen
Denmark
Evထlve Certified CFT Trainer
- Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
- Master in Fitness and Exercise (University of Southern Denmark)
- Co-owner Spine & Mind Fysio
- Bachelor in Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy School in Odense