Associate Professor Claire Baldwin

Associate Professor

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

+61 8 72218212

claire.baldwin@flinders.edu.au

Sturt West (W402)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Claire is 'helping the most at-risk people in hospital get moving.' She is a registered physiotherapist (with AHPRA) who obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of South Australia, and PhD from Flinders University. Claire is a researcher-teacher-clinician, with expertise in physiotherapy and the physical recovery of people with acute medical or surgical conditions. Her clinical and research work has specifically focused on those recovering from a critical illness that required mechanical ventilation, other cardiorespiratory conditions and older medical patients. She has experience in range of methods to measure respiratory and peripheral muscle performance, body composition, exercise capacity, mobility and physical activity.

Qualifications

B.Physiotherapy (Honours)

PhD

Honours, awards and grants

Vice President and Executive Dean’s Team Award, CNHS Placement Education Coordinators, Flinders University 2022

Vice-Chancellor’s award for Early Career Researchers 2020

Winner Best Study Abstract (Ageing Special Interest Group), ISBNPA 2020

Nominated for Best Allied Health Paper, ANZICS/ACCCN 2018

Key responsibilities

Course Coordinator (Master of Physiotherapy) 2023-current

Physiotherapy Placement Education Coordinator 2021-2023

Teaching interests

- Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy including critical illness

- Management of acute medical and surgical conditions (cardiorespiratory, orthopaedic, neurological)

- Research methods including outcome measurement

- Foundational skills for health professionals including preparedness for clinical placements

Topic lecturer

PHYT8002 Performance of Movement and Function

SPTH9220 Research In Practice

PHYT8003 Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy

Supervisory interests

Clinical nutrition

Critical care medicine

Gerontology

Hospitals

Outcome measurement

Patient outcomes

Physical activity

Physiotherapy

Respiratory medicine

Sedentary behaviour

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Advanced Studies Medical student - physical activty, sedentary and sleep in hospitalised older adults (1)

Associate supervisor: Reablement in community dwelling older adults (1), Critical Care and Wellbeing (1)

Higher degree by research student achievements

Jordan Tumes

Honours - JUN 2019

Chad Han

PhD - OCT 2022

Professional engagement

Claire has a long history of professional engagement and advocacy with the peak professional body for physiotherapists, the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), which is ongoing. She has served as President of the South Australian branch of the APA (2012-2013), and is a previous SA representative for the National Cardiorespiratory group of the association (and remains an active committee member). Claire was chair of the scientific planning committee for the Cardiorespiratory stream at the 2019 National Conference, and committee member again in 2021. She has been both a convenor and presenter at professional development events for the APA, and been an invited speaker at national and international conferences/events in relation to physiotherapy and intensive care medicine, physical activity in aging and clinical education.

External appointments:

Physiotherapy Research Foundation, Grant Review Committee

Deputy chair (2023-current)
Committee member (2021-current)

Peer reviewer: includes, Australian Critical Care; Critical Care; Clinical Rehabilitation; Disability and Rehabilitation; European Respiratory Journal; Journal of the Intensive Care Society; Journal of Critical Care; Physiotherapy; Physical Therapy; Physiotherapy Research International; Physiotherapy Theory and Practice; PLOS ONE; Respiration; Respiratory Care

Professional Memberships: