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Invited speakers


We have delicious invited speakers…


From the veldts of South Africa, Adriaan Louw is in the final agony of his PhD and is playing David to the Goliath of American back surgeons trying to change what patients are told before surgery. Educationalist, researcher and clinician, Adriaan is a NOI faculty member in the US.


Rev. Dr Andrew Dutney is Associate Professor in the School of Theology at Flinders University. He has research interests in bioethics and ecological theology and is a well known media commentator on spirituality and ethics. Andrew takes over as the next head of the Uniting Church in Australia in 2012.


Once from the wide expanses of Belgium and now head of a neuropathic pain research group at the University of Queensland, Dr Michel Coppieters and his team Bob Nee and Annina Schmid bring a session on peripheral neuropathic pain and neurodynamics from the lab to the bedside.


Dr Ben Wand from Notre Dame University in Perth brings his many research tentacles to the conference – body perception disturbance, central nervous system disturbances in back pain, and acupuncture as a sensory discrimination tool.



Dr Mike Butler, Rheumatologist and Pain Medicine Specialist in Auckland, also widely known as the nicest man in New Zealand, brings a wealth of deep neurobiology and rational pain management strategies to the conference.


Janette Gale is a practising Health Psychologist and founder of Health Coaching Australia. She is a leading authority on health coaching principles and professional practice in the area of chronic disease prevention and self-management. Janette says 'so much science, so little practice.'


Dr Trish Wisbey-Roth, a much loved Aussie physiotherapist has pioneered the design of simple, effective, and understandable exercises to optimise the three dimensional biomechanics of the spine and pelvis and is merging this with the even more extraordinary mechanics in the brain.


Dr Trish Neumann is an Australian physiotherapist with research and clinical interests in male and female pelvic pain and continence problems. An expert in the pelvic floor, she is keen to put a brain between all of our legs.