Ben Barry

Dr Ben Barry is an allied health professional working clinically in aged care with Wesley Mission Queensland. Dr Barry has a research background in adaptations of the nervous system to exercise and ageing. His research interests have progressed to health professional education, spanning digital health, interprofessional education and workforce development. Dr Barry's clinical work as a physiotherapist and exercise physiologist with a focus on healthy ageing links nicely with his PhD thesis on "Resistance training and movement control in older adults". Dr Barry has extensive experience teaching allied health (exercise physiology), medical science and medical students. This has included coordinating degree programs and courses, leading teaching teams and discipline-wide curriculum reviews, expanding and enhancing clinical placement programs and student clinics, and innovations in online teaching of health professionals. Dr Barry completed postdoctoral training in the Neurophysiology of Movement Laboratory at the Department of Integrative Physiology, the University of Colorado - Boulder USA, and subsequently worked for a decade at the School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, as well as holding an honorary appointment at Neuroscience Research Australia, before returning to The University of Queensland in 2017. He has a track record of external research funding and postgraduate research supervision as well as several teaching awards. Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical sciences, Curriculum and pedagogy, Education, Exercise physiology, Medical physiology, Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy, Motor control, Neurosciences, Sports science and exercise

[2024] CBL on FHIR: A FHIR-Based Platform for Health Professional Education [2023] eLearning improves allied health professionals' knowledge and confidence to manage medically unexplained chronic fatigue states: a randomized controlled trial