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James Matthew Elliott

The Kolling Institute, The University of Sydney, The University of Queensland, Northwestern University - Chicago

Research areas: Health Professions · Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics · Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8890-6012
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About

James completed his PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia (UQ) in 2007 and a post-doctoral fellowship (2010) at UQ’s CCRE-Spine. The primary focus of his interdisciplinary laboratory is to quantify altered spinal cord anatomy and whole-body skeletal muscle degeneration as potential markers of recovery following head/neck trauma. His work has resulted in external recognition as a global expert in neck pain (broadly) and whiplash injuries (more specifically).

He is currently the Academic Director of the Kolling Institute and Academic Director of Allied Health/Public Health in the Northern Sydney (Arabanoo) Precinct at the University of Sydney and the Northern Sydney Local Health District. Prior to this, he was a tenure-track Associate Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA, where he remains an adjunct Professor and the Principal Investigator of the Neuromuscular Imaging Research Laboratory.

James was the recipient of the 2011 Eugene Michels New Investigator Award from the American Physical Therapy Association, the 2015 Faculty Award for Engagement from Northwestern’s Graduate School, and the 2017 Ver Steeg Faculty Award for Excellence in work with graduate students. In 2018 he was selected as a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (FAPTA); The FAPTA designation is the highest honour among APTA's membership categories.

On a personal note, James played professional baseball for the San Diego Padres (1990-1992), worked in major league baseball operations for the Colorado Rockies (1993-1996) and was inducted into the University of Denver Athletic Hall of Fame (2014).

Employment

  • The Kolling Institute Academic Director
    2022 - Present
  • The University of Sydney Conjoint Professor
    2018 - Present
  • Northwestern University - Chicago Adjunct Professor
    2010 - Present

Education

Projects & Funding

  • Neuromuscular Mechanisms Underlying Poor Recovery from Whiplash Injuries Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    2014 - 2020

Publications (40)