Professor Jean Hay-Smith
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Professor of Rehabilitation, University of Otago, Wellington, NZ
I am Tangata Tiriti with whakapapa links to Ireland, Germany, England and Scotland. My working life began nurse aiding in a rural obstetric unit, followed by physiotherapy training, clinical work in Aotearoa New Zealand and United Kingdom, completion of an MSc (in London) and a PhD once I returned home.
Unifying my 40-year clinical, research, and teaching career is the experience of working in teams, usually comprising multiple disciplines. Previously teaching a postgraduate paper on interprofessional teamwork, provided an opportunity to explore team functioning ‘academically’ and ‘practically’. As a Professor of Rehabilitation, at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, I teach and provide research supervision for postgraduate students from multiple disciplines and wide-ranging rehabilitation contexts such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, older person’s health, and pain. |
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For those who like the ‘quantifiable’, I have led or contributed to grants worth more than 5 million NZ dollars, published more than 150 papers, chaired the committee for Conservative Management at 3 International Consultations on Incontinence, been a Cochrane Editor for Cochrane Incontinence, and have twice been awarded best abstract at the annual scientific meeting of the International Continence Society. No prizes for guessing my primary research focus!
