Academic Status
College of Medicine and Public Health
Professor Lorraine Sheppard is a professor of physiotherapy and healthcare management.
Lorraine has been motivated throughout her career by a desire to see lives transformed by improving health systems. She conducts research that generates evidence-based policy and programs and has helped establish new ways of working by explaining extending scopes of practice, evaluating innovations, supporting new researchers, and determining how health and disability services can be improved.
Various academic appointments
Non Executive Director
Fellow of Australian Institute of Company Directors and CA
Chair, Educators Group, Australian Physiotherapy Association
Member, Credentialling Committee, Australian College of Physiotherapists
Member, National Advisory Committee, Australian Physiotherapy Association
Deputy Chair, Non executive director (NED), Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council
Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors
Immediate past Chair and President, Australian Physiotherapy Council
Member SARRAH Services for Rural and Remote Allied Health