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Daniel Mellifont
BPhty(Hons) Qld.UT, GradCertSportsPT LaTrobe
Position: Senior Lecturer in Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapist
Office: T3.35
Tel: +61 07 5456 5014
Fax: +61 07 5459 4880
Email: dmellifo@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Introduction to Sports Medicine
- Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
Research areas
Daniel is passionate about the knee and lumbopelvic region. His research focus is on Musculoskeletal Health and Performance, including:
- optimising performance and preventing injury
- coalface measures and interventions for movement control
- relationships between clinical practice and biomechanical testing
Profile
Daniel Mellifont loves learning and seeing others grow through learning.
His work focuses on developing the nexus of innovation in practice, research and learning. Hence, Daniel's teaching and course development focuses on inspiring learning through real life questions, skills and solutions based on a framework of professionalism, ethics, science and evidence.
Daniel is a registered physiotherapist and member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA). As an advocate for the role physiotherapy and exercise in optimising health, he strongly endorses the APA’s philosophy - 'Move well, Stay well.'
His experience includes roles as a clinician and manager with multidisciplinary health care organisations in both the public and private sectors. He enjoys working with people from across the lifespan, demonstrated by his roles in the care of elite athletes and innovations in the prevention and management of falls in older Australians.
Physiotherapy program development
Daniel leads the development of the University of the Sunshine Coast’s project to scope the viability of a prospective Physiotherapy program. Extensive consultation has identified many potential strengths and opportunities for a Physiotherapy program at USC in the future. However, many challenges currently exist in the sector and industry such as federal funding shortfalls for clinical training, a paucity of academics in key areas of Physiotherapy in Australia, a nationwide shortage of quality clinical placements and a predicted imminent surplus of physiotherapy graduates (Australian Physiotherapy Council, 2009).
These national issues have led University leaders to put the development of a prospective program on hold, at least until the Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) is operational. [Note – in mid 2009, the QLD state government delayed the SCUH project such that completion is estimated at 2016 or later].
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