Staff profile

Professor Meg E. Morris

Head of School, Allied Health

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Allied Health

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BAppSc(Physiotherapy), GradDip(Geront), MAPPSC, PhD, FACP

Area of study

Physiotherapy

Brief Profile

Professor Meg Morris is the Head of the School of Allied Health a school of more than 2000 students. She is a world renown researcher in the field of Parkinson’s disease and has received more than $14 million grants to date and published over 200 articles and 4 books. She has supervised more than 30 doctoral students and is a Fellow of the Australian college of Physiotherapists.

Research specialisation

- Disability

- Gait and balance

Recent Publications

Soh S, McGinley J, Morris M E. Measuring quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: selection of an appropriate health-related quality of life instrument. Physiotherapy 2011 83-89.

Soh S, McGinley J, Morris ME. Determinants of health-related quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 2011; 17: 1-9.

Williams G, Ross Clark, Anthony Schache, Natalie A. Fini, Liz Moore, Meg E. Morris and Paul R. McCrory. Training Conditions Influence Walking Kinematics and Self-Selected Walking Speed in Patients with Neurological Impairments. Journal of Neurotrauma. February 2011, 28(2): 281-287.

Morris ME, Menz H, Mcginley J, Huxham F, Murphy A, Iansek R, Danoudis M, Soh S, Kelly D, Watts J. Falls and mobility in Parkinson's disease: protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial. BMC Neurology 2011, 11:93

Tan DM, McGinley JL, Danoudis ME, Iansek R, Morris ME. Freezing of gait and activity limitations in people with Parkinson's disease. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2011;92:1159-65.

Dobson F, Graham K, Morris ME. Unilateral cerebral palsy: a population-based study of gait and motor function. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology[Dev Med Child Neurol] 2011 May; Vol. 53 (5), pp. 429-35.

Brauer, S, Woollacott M, Lamont R, Clewett S John O’Sullivan J,  Silburn P George Mellicke, and Morris ME. Single and dual task gait training in people with Parkinson Disease: A protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Neurology. 2011, 11:90

Williams G, Morris ME. Test of static balance do not predict mobility performance following TBI. Physiotherapy Canada 2011; 58-64.

Said CM, Morris ME, Bernhardt J, Woodward M, Chuilov L. Mobility in older adults receiving hospital based rehabilitation: a phase II feasibility study. BMC Geriatrics 2012, 12:26.

Cumming TB, Tyedin K, Churilov L, Morris ME, Bernhardt J. The effect of physical activity on cognitive function after stroke: a systematic review. Int Psychogeriatr. 2012 Oct 14:1-11

Tan D, Danoudis M, McGinley J, Morris ME. Relationships between motor aspects of gait impairments and activity limitations in people with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2012 Feb;18(2):117-24.

Adair, B., Said, C. M., Rodda, J., & Morris, M. E.. Psychometric properties of functional mobility tools in hereditary spastic paraplegia and other childhood neurological conditions. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 2012 54(7), 596-605.

Kelly DH, McGinley JL, Huxham FE, Menz HB, Watts JJ, Iansek R, Murphy A, Danoudis M, Adair B, Morris ME. Health-related quality of life and strain in caregivers of Australians with Parkinson’s disease: An observational study. BMC Neurology 2012, 12:57. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-12-57

Peters A, Baker R, Sangeuz M, Morris ME. A comparison of hip joint centre localisation techniques with 3-DUS for clinical gait analysis in children with cerebral palsy. Gait & Posture 36 (2012) 282–286.

Morris ME. Preventing falls in older people. British Medical Journal. 2012; 345.

Morris ME, Clarissa Martin, Jennifer L McGinley, Frances E Huxham, Hylton B Menz, Nicholas F Taylor, Mary Danoudis, Jennifer J Watts, Sze-Ee Soh, Andrew H Evans, Malcolm Horne and Peter Kempster. Protocol for a home-based integrated physical therapy program to reduce falls and improve mobility in people with Parkinson's disease. BMC Neurology 2012, 12:54 doi:10.1186/1471-2377-12-54.

Tan S, Williams A, Morris ME. Experiences of caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease in Singapore: a qualitative analysis Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2012. Volume 21, Issue 15-16, 2235–2246.

Lamont RM, Morris ME, Woollacott MH, Brauer SG. Community walking in people with Parkinson’s Disease.  Parkinsons Dis. 2012;2012:856237. Parkinson’s Disease. 2012, Article ID 856237, 8 pages. doi:10.1155/2012/856237.

McGinley J, Danoudis M, Huxham F, Iansek R, Menz H, Morris ME. Feasibility, safety and compliance for a randomized controlled trial of physiotherapy for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s Disease. 2012;2012: Article ID 795294.

Soh S-E, McGinley JL, Watts J, Iansek R, Morris ME. Health-related quality of life of Australians with Parkinson’s disease: A comparison with international studies. Physiotherapy Canada. 2012.

Williams G, Schache S, Morris ME.  6 month mobility outcome following TBI. paper accepted in J Head Trauma Rehab 2012.

Baker R, McGinley J, Wolfe R, Morris ME, Pandy M, Variability of walking in able-bodied adults. Archives Rehabilitation. 2012.

Iansek R & Morris ME. (2012) Rehabilitation of Movement Disorders. Elsevier, Oxford. (Book, in press)

Phan Phuong, Blennerhassett J, Lythgo N, Morris ME. Over-ground walking on level and sloped surfaces in people with stroke compared to healthy matched adults. Disability & Rehabilitation (accepted September 2012, in press).

Research projects

IBES Seed Project - Systematic Review: I-Ageing (/individual/grant34190) awarded by Department of Business & Innovation  2009-2012

Therapy to reduce falling in Parkinson's. (/individual/gran14281)(Project Grants) awarded by NHMRC 2008- 2012

Preventing Fallas and Improving Mobility in people with PRarkinson's Disease E (/individual/grant12985) (Clinical Discovery grants for Parkinson's Disease Research) awarded by Michael J. Fox foundation for Parkinson's Research 2006 -2011