Associate Professor Belinda Lange

Belinda is a physiotherapist, educator and digital health researcher, with 20-years of experience in co-design and evaluation of digital health technologies such as virtual reality, virtual humans, and game-based rehabilitation tools in clinical and community settings. She received her PhD and degree in Physiotherapy (Honours) from the University of South Australia, her Science Degree from Flinders University and a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Newcastle. Belinda has been a registered Physiotherapist in Australia since 2003. She worked at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, a University Affiliated Research Centre funded by the US Army, in Los Angeles from 2006 to 2014. Belinda is passionate about partnering with clinicians, consumers, and industry to build digital health capacity and explore how interactive technologies can enhance clinical practice, training, wellness. She has international experience in co-design, development, and evaluation of programs to support rehabilitation, training, and wellbeing of veterans of the United States Armed Forces and a range of clinical populations in the community setting. Belinda has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and has led or been a co-researcher in over $5 million in funding for projects that developed and clinically evaluated virtual reality and interactive tools for training, mental health, wellbeing, and neurological rehabilitation. Belinda is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Chair of the Flinders Human Research Ethics Committee, Deputy Chair of the Southern Adelaide Clinical Human Research Ethics Committee, and holds non-executive Board Director roles in the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, the Australian Physiotherapy Council, and Gymnastics SA.

Belinda has supervised and mentored Honours, Masters and Postdoctoral level researchers. Her teaching and research interests include: digital health, telehealth, artificial intelligence, chatbots, game-based rehabilitation, virtual reality, research methods and design, neuroscience, and neurological rehabilitation.