Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Gait Analysis and Gait Rehabilitation
A collaboration between:
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Prof Bob Iansek, Chief Investigator, Kingston Centre
Professor Iansek heads the Geriatric Research Unit and the Geriatric Neurology Service at Kingston Centre (Southern Health Network).
The Centre houses an international standard Gait Laboratory, which provides world-class research on Parkinson's gait and its application to rehabilitation in people with Parkinson's disease.
Professor Iansek is currently a member of the Education Committee for International Movement Disorder Society and is on the Editorial Board of the journal Movement Disorders. He was also instrumental in the application of this knowledge to the development of the specific rehabilitation program for people with Parkinson's disease, which is directed to particular functional difficulties that patients experience when medication fails or is ineffective. This rehabilitation programme has been applied in a multidisciplinary setting. Professor Iansek also heads the Victorian Comprehensive Parkinson's Program, which is the only Parkinson's programof this nature in Australia.
Professor Iansek has been involved for 25 years in research on motor control and basal ganglia function. Initially he utilised a technique of single cell recording in animals and subsequently has been involved in analysis of movement kinematics in people with Parkinson's Disease, with the use of pre-movement potential as well as magnetic stimulation of the supplementary motor area and more recently in gait analysis.
Professor Iansek is a widely sort speaker at national and international conferences on movement disorders and has regular presentation to health care professionals, medical specialists and students on various aspects of motor control, movements disorders, Parkinson's Disease, rehabilitation and multidisciplinary management.
Professor Iansek was recently the first Visiting Professor as part of the Movement Disorder Society to South Africa as a means of educating underdeveloped countries in the areas of Parkinson's Disease, rehabilitation and Parkinson research. Professor Iansek is also on the International Movement Disorders Education Committee and is currently President of the Asian & Pacific Parkinson's Disease Association and President-elect of the Asian Oceania Section of the Movement Disorder Society.