Preliminary program
Keynote and invited speakers
A/Prof Anne Silverman
Dr. Silverman is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, USA. Her research program centers on understanding musculoskeletal biomechanics and movement coordination to develop effective training interventions, prevent injury, and improve mobility. As director of the Functional Biomechanics Laboratory, she uses experimental movement analysis and computational whole-body modeling techniques to evaluate muscle action, joint loading, and device function during movement. Recent projects have evaluated military service members, people with lower-limb amputations, and older adults. Her work has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.
Prof Jess Gerrit Snedeker
Jess Snedeker is a Full Professor of Orthopaedic Biomechanics, holding joint appointments at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, where he also serves as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Orthopaedics. Since 2015, he has been the Chief Scientific Officer at Balgrist Campus, a nationally recognised center for musculoskeletal research. Prof Snedeker's own research is at the forefront of tendon mechanobiology and regenerative orthopaedic surgery research. His group is committed to both basic scientific discovery and the clinical translation of innovative orthopaedic devices.
Prof Kay Crossley
Professor Kay Crossley is the Director of the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre. Her main research focus is on preventing and managing knee and hip pain and injuries, and early-onset osteoarthritis after sports-related injuries. Kay maintains a strong research interest in enhancing treatments for knee conditions (injuries, pain and osteoarthritis). She also focuses on preventing osteoarthritis following sports-related injuries, with fields in patellofemoral osteoarthritis following patellofemoral pain, knee osteoarthritis following ACL reconstruction, and hip osteoarthritis following hip-related injuries. She is passionate about promoting the health of women and girls participating in sport and physical activity (including injury prevention) and the careers and opportunities for women working in sport and exercise physiotherapy/medicine.
Prof Richard Page
Professor Richard Page is an orthopaedic shoulder and upper limb surgeon. He was appointed as Foundation St John of God and Barwon Health Chair of Orthopaedics at Deakin University in 2014. He is Director of Orthopaedic Research at Barwon Health, the Barwon Centre of Orthopaedic Research and Education (B-CORE) and Medical Director of the Barwon Health Bone Bank. His research interests include outcomes of shoulder and wrist surgery, upper limb osteoarthritis and joint replacement surgery, biomechanics and a range of trauma and fragility fracture outcome topics. He manages two lab-based research programmes, the first investigating biofilms and biomarkers in prosthetic joint infections in orthopaedics, the second focussed on the genetics and potential intervention biomarkers in painful musculoskeletal conditions in a human shoulder model.
A/Prof Laura Diamond
Dr Laura Diamond is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Associate Professor, and Research Lead at Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering, Griffith University. She is a trained biomedical engineer (Dalhousie U, Canada) with a PhD in biomechanics (U of Melbourne) leading a research program focused on development and application of novel technologies to understand and treat the biomechanical mechanisms of musculoskeletal and orthopaedic conditions. Laura has attracted >AU$14M in grant funding, invented 1 National Phase patent, and published >80 scientific papers/book chapters. She is incoming Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health and Technology (PRECISE), has an extensive community engagement portfolio, and is an advocate for participation of schoolgirls/women in STEM.
Dr Bart Bolsterlee
Dr Bart Bolsterlee is a mechanical (BSc) and biomedical engineer (MSc, PhD) who holds positions as a Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia (Sydney) and as Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW. His research spans the fields of biomechanics and medical imaging, with applications in the study of muscle adaptation with neuromuscular disease. His specific expertise is in quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of skeletal muscle. Dr Bolsterlee developed diffusion tensor imaging methods to reconstruct and quantify the three-dimensional architecture of living human skeletal muscles. His recent work includes the use of artificial intelligence to automate the analysis of MRI scans, facilitating the use of detailed MRI-based measures in large-scale research. He currently leads the MUGgLE study – a large-scale, longitudinal imaging study into childhood muscle growth which includes 200 typically developing children and 80 children with cerebral palsy.
Conference social events
Welcome event - Sunday evening
Student and early career researcher event
Networking event - Collingwood children's farm
Collingwood Children’s Farm
18 St Heliers st, Abbotsford
Time: 4-7pm
The Collingwood Children’s Farm is a not-for-profit, inner city working farm situated on the Yarra River in Melbourne. A community hub with a focus on horticulture education, Collingwood Children’s Farm hosts a charming café and event space.
Light catering will be available from 4pm and drinks available from 4:30pm. Feel free to arrive early and explore the working community farm, meet the animals and wander through the charming gardens.
Dinner will be held directly after the networking event at the abbortsford convent which is right next door.
Conference dinner - Abbortsford convent
Abbotsford
Convent – Rosina Function Space &Courtyard
1 St Heliers
st, Abbotsford
Time: 7-10pm
Spread over 16 acres, the National Heritage listed Abbotsford Convent is Australia’s largest multi-arts precinct, a place of art, culture and learning. Join us for a 3-course meal in the beautiful, heritage listed Rosina Function Space and private courtyard from 7-10pm to celebrate the ABC-ANZORS 2024 meeting.
The convent is a short walk from the Collingwood children's farm.
Qualisys
Part 1: Presentation (45 min)
- Who is Qualisys? Company heritage and mission
- How Qualisys technology helps biomechanists to gain new insights: use cases from applied sports biomechanics
- Qualisys MoCap ecosystem: Hardware, Tracking (marker-based/markerless),Processing (local/cloud-based)
- What’s next? Challenges when using motion capture to get even bigger datasets than today
- Q&A
Break (15 min)
Part 2: Hands-on demos (45 min)
- Flexible data capture and processing with custom markersets (Visual3D with local processing)
- Streamlined processing (Functional Assessment Module with cloud-based processing)
- Q&A