基本信息
浏览量:0
职业迁徙
个人简介
Dr Amorim is a Senior Lecturer in the Physiotherapy Discipline at the Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, with teaching, research, and leadership responsibilities. Dr Amorim completed her PhD in Health Sciences in 2018 and a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship in Public Health 2020 at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on innovative and evidence-based management of chronic musculoskeletal pain across the implementation science spectrum, from the discovery of effective treatments to translation within the healthcare system to reduce unnecessary healthcare utilisation in people with musculoskeletal pain through behavioural change. Dr Amorim has conducted various research projects such as clinical trials, cross-sectional and longitudinal observational studies, and systematic reviews. Dr Amorim has several peer-reviewed journal publications, has contributed to multidisciplinary research collaborations, and has presented in plenary and poster sessions at several national and international conferences. She has developed and maintained international research networks and partnerships with numerous countries, particularly Norway, Spain and Brazil.
Dr Amorim's research interest includes risk factors, the management of musculoskeletal injuries, and the impact of lifestyle behaviours on chronic musculoskeletal pain. In her PhD thesis, she explored the relationship between physical activity and chronic low back pain and the role of health coaching in facilitating behaviour change. This experience allowed her to build extensive knowledge in the chronic pain field as well as in the behaviour change, lifestyle, physical activity and well-being area. Dr Amorim is now pursuing research in Mindfulness-based interventions for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Dr Amorim's research vision is to improve the quality of life of people living with chronic musculoskeletal pain and reduce the global burden of this condition for patients and the healthcare system. Her research has taken a translational approach to reduce unnecessary healthcare utilisation in people with musculoskeletal pain through behavioural change. As an early career researcher, she secured funding for a clinical trial that discovered optimal ways to increase physical activity among people with chronic low back pain sufferers using health coaching. She is now extending her research to embed mindfulness meditation in a translational research project that is funded by Sydney Health Partners.
Dr Amorim is a Senior Lecturer within the Musculoskeletal stream in the Discipline of Physiotherapy. Her teaching commitments include coordinating and teaching units of study within the undergraduate and Master's physiotherapy programs. Dr Amorim has taught eight musculoskeletal units of study and coordinated three of them. She is currently the unit of study coordinator for PHTY5137 Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy IB in semester 1 and PHTY5209 Advanced Clinical Reasoning in semester 2, both at the Master of Physiotherapy Program. The core of both units that Dr Amorim coordinates is evidence-based practice. In PHTY5137, she introduces the concepts, principles and skills required to practice evidence-based physiotherapy. These skills are further developed in their capstone unit (PHTY5209), in which students undertake a major individual scholarly piece of writing on a complex case of a common condition using evidence-based physiotherapy practice and clinical reasoning. Dr Amorim strives to teach her students to become motivated, insightful, and enthusiastic thinkers and how to find evidence-based information to inform their practice. She aims to inspire growth in her students by increasing curiosity, open-mindedness, and a thirst for knowledge. She wants her students to become critical thinkers and use these tools to ask relevant questions, seek evidence-based information to answer these questions, and openly share their new knowledge with others. Dr Amorim has included in the PHTY5209 curriculum a new module based on a series of editorials that aims to assist physiotherapists in building expertise in understanding research — it includes an editorial she published in the BJSM on the features of high-quality trials and their impact on clinical practice. She is equipping her students, as emerging clinicians, with the tools and confidence to practice upon graduation.
研究兴趣
论文共 28 篇作者统计合作学者相似作者
按年份排序按引用量排序主题筛选期刊级别筛选合作者筛选合作机构筛选
时间
引用量
主题
期刊级别
合作者
合作机构
Madeleine L. Connolly,Michaela C. Pascoe,Stephen C. Bowden,Anita B. Amorim, Kusal Goonewardena,Nicholas T. Van Dam
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGYno. 2 (2024): 100471-100471
Katharine Roberts,Melissa Baysari,Emma Ho, Paula Beckenkamp, Ye Tian, Matthew Jennings,Anita Amorim,Katherine Maka,Rachael Morton,Dragana Ceprnja, Mark Halliday,Manuela Ferreira,Paulo Ferreira
BMC health services researchno. 1 (2024): 1072-1072
Contemporary clinical trials (2023): 107330-107330
Liliam Barbuglio Del Priore,Vitoria Ozores Perez,Ronaldo Valdir Briani, Lucca Andre Liporoni Bego Farinelli,Júlia de Cássia Pinto da Silva, Odisséia Marli Gimenes Martins, Fábio Arruda Lopes,Anita Barros Amorim,Evangelos Pappas,Fábio Mícolis de Azevedo
Joshua R. Zadro,Anita B. Amorim,Giovanni Ferreira, Xiaocong Hu,Rosa E. Becerra, Broti S. Reza, Samar Khan,Anne M. Moseley
Ho Emma K.,Ferreira Manuela L.,Bauman Adrian,Hodges Paul W.,Maher Christopher G.,Simic Milena,Morton Rachael L.,Lonsdale Chris,Li Qiang,Baysari Melissa T.,Amorim Anita B.,Ceprnja Dragana,Clavisi Ornella,Halliday Mark,Jennings Matthew,Kongsted Alice,Maka Katherine,Reid Kate,Reynolds Tahlia,Ferreira Paulo H.
加载更多
作者统计
#Papers: 28
#Citation: 439
H-Index: 8
G-Index: 20
Sociability: 5
Diversity: 0
Activity: 1
合作学者
合作机构
D-Core
- 合作者
- 学生
- 导师
数据免责声明
页面数据均来自互联网公开来源、合作出版商和通过AI技术自动分析结果,我们不对页面数据的有效性、准确性、正确性、可靠性、完整性和及时性做出任何承诺和保证。若有疑问,可以通过电子邮件方式联系我们:report@aminer.cn