His research and teaching interests are in improving medical decision making, including clinical trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based medicine. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed journal articles – half of these since 2004. The articles have a total of over 9,000 citations. His h-index is currently 39, that is, 39 articles have been cited at least 39 times; 18 of these publications having been cited over 100 times. These research articles have appeared in key general medicine journals such as the Lancet (7), NEJM (3), JAMA (4), Annals of Internal Medicine (3), BMJ (16), and the MJA (8), as well as a variety of specialist medical and methodological journals.

Dr Glasziou's key interests include identifying and removing the barriers to using high quality research in everyday clinical practice. To this end he has developed several popular workshops in evidence-based medicine. He is also editor of the BMJs journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. He is the author of six books related to evidence based practice: Systematic Reviews in Health Care, Decision Making in Health Care and Medicine: integrating evidence and values, An Evidence-Based Medicine Workbook, Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision-making, Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, and Evidence-Based Medical Monitoring: Principles and Practice. As Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine since 2002, Professor Glasziou has lead numerous workshops, in several countries, on both practicing Evidence-Based Medicine, and how to teach Evidence-Based Medicine. In 2003, he was named by the Bulletin magazine as one of Australia's '10 smartest people' in health care.
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Sylvia’s clinical research interests include: cognitive interventions for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Asperger Syndrome, early intervention and play for children with autism spectrum disorders, family centred practice, the impact of disability on families, paediatric occupational therapy service delivery and evidence based practice. Her teaching scholarship interests lie in enhancement of quality of professional practice placements and students learning experiences, curriculum reform, professional competencies and IPE. She has written three books, more than 120 peer reviewed papers, and has over $1.7 million in research funding. In 2009 she was awarded the Mary Rankine Wilson Award for Professional Excellence by OT Australia Queensland. She has been awarded an Australian Teaching and Learning Fellowship for 2010-2011 in curriculum reform/renewal. She is on the editorial boards of Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, Journal of Research in Interprofessional Education (JRIPE), Occupational Therapy in Early Intervention, Preschools and Schools and on the international advisory board of the British Journal of Occupational Therapy.
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She is also an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto. Dr. Kirsh’s primary research focuses on community and work integration for persons with mental illnesses and she has published widely in this area. She is one of a small number of OTs who has examined the issue of spirituality in OT , including ways of educating students and methods of addressing spirituality in practice. She has conducted studies examining consumer perspectives on supported housing, work integration and the relationship of organizational culture to employment. She has developed a Canadian model of work integration that outlines the principles, practices and discourses regarding work and mental illness across the country. Her research also addresses the experiences of injured workers, and in particular, their mental health needs.

Currently, she is involved in several large scale studies examining various aspects of work and community life: she is studying supported employment as an intervention in Canada, the employment needs of people with episodic disabilities, and government policy and structures that influence employment for persons with mental illness. Of particular note are two very large studies that bring occupational therapy to new domains of research: 1) the Chez Soi/ At Home project, which is a Canadian study on homelessness that is taking place in five cities; it is the first of its kind, testing interventions for those who are homeless and living with mental illness; and 2) the Workplace Anti Stigma Project that is examining most effective ways of combating stigma towards mental illnesses in workplaces. Dr. Kirsh has been appointed to the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Workforce Advisory Committee and as the only OT on this national body, she brings occupational therapy to the forefront of mental health research, policy and practice in Canada.
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Audience members describe her as both personally and professionally inspiring, humorous, real, courageous and thought provoking. As a therapist and patient, Emma is an expert in both resilience and client centred practice.

After undergoing her own rehabilitation, Emma now works part-time at the National Stroke Foundation in Stroke Support. She’s also writing a book and can be seen in numerous articles to improve stroke prevention and disability awareness.

Some other stuff about Emma;

• Is an identical twin
• Has worked in an orphange in Tanzania
• Hates pureed cabbage
• Can now drink coffee again
• Is ‘Auntie Em’ to Lucy, Ellen, Holly and Jack
• Owns a dog named Gilbert
• Has an electric scooter named Harley

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As the leader of the Health Communication Research Group, she has led an interdisciplinary group of health professionals in developing and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions that enable patients to actively participate in their health care and be involved in decision making. This has included the development of tailored educational resources that facilitate self-management, individual-level health promotion, and patient-health professional communication across a range of chronic conditions. Tammy is also a member of the team that developed OTseeker - an online occupational therapy evidence database that contains the bibliographic details of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials about occupational therapy interventions.

Tammy is the lead editor of a book (Evidence-Based Practice across the Health Professions), has published 14 book chapters, over 45 peer-reviewed articles, given numerous invited presentations and evidence-based practice workshops, and been awarded over $1.2 million in research funding. She is a member of the National Stroke Foundation Clinical Council, the editorial board for the Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation Journal, and the Critically Appraised Papers Advisory Board for the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal.
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Living remotely has taken Jo on an extraordinary clinical journey. After ten years living and working in Indigenous communities she has a new understanding of human development and has moved from a focus on the neuro-developmental paradigm for working with children to a paradigm built from the Human Rights and and Attachment research. Her job with WA Health was created expressly for both her and her mother Barb (also an OT), and it explicitly requires them to empower local indigenous families. From 2005 to 2010, in partnership with Elders and families, Jo and Barb developed the cutting-edge Bidi Bidi Project : an interrelated set of programs controlled by the families themselves.
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