Professor Helen Dawes

About me:

Helen Dawes is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation in the College of Medicine and Health. Helen has a clinical academic background as a physiotherapist and movement scientist with expertise in technology and AI in rehabilitation.  She is co-director of the NIHR BRC and HRC Rehabilitation Themes. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator. 

Her research involves working closely, with industry, clinicians, and the public, to develop, evaluate and translate to clinical practice transformative innovation. In her role, Helen will be exploring the development of effective personalised, scalable, rehabilitation innovations to address the growing global need.

Interests:

Her main research focus is translation of individualised rehabilitation into clinical practice, informed and underpinned by basic research into mechanisms, with innovation through technology and explainable AI. Her ambition is to harness the very latest technologies to improve human well-being in health and disease, focussing on tailored innovation for diagnosing, monitoring and treating disorders affecting movement and to deliver these at scale. 

She is currently funded the NIHR, EPSRC, MRC Charities, Innovate, UKRI, NIH and CIHR

Qualifications:

• PhD
• M.Med.Sci
• MCSP