Associate Professor Dale Edgar

BPhty (Hons), PhD

Biography

Dale is Head of the Burn Injury Research Node within the School of Physiotherapy and IHR at Notre Dame. In addition to this half-time role, Dale is also Senior Physiotherapist in the Adult Burns Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Director of Clinical Research for the Fiona Wood Foundation.
For more than 20 years, Dale has been devoted to the provision and improvement of burn survivor and acute trauma rehabilitation. For his leadership, research and contributions to burn patient rehabilitation across the globe, he was awarded the Andre Zagame Rehabilitation Specialist Prize by the ISBI in 2012.
Dale has >80 peer reviewed papers and been awarded >$1.2M in grant funding, nearing $900K of that total as PI. In addition to his lecturing at Notre Dame, Dale also lectures at Curtin University of Technology (WA) and, School of Physiotherapy, James Cook University (QLD). He supervises and mentors medical, social work and physiotherapy undergraduate and postgraduate students in research. In line with his passion, Dale’s education focus is the delivery of an online curriculum for students wishing to achieve the Masters in Burn and Trauma Rehabilitation.

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