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Dr Iain Dutia

Lecturer - Physiotherapy
School of Allied Health

Areas of expertise: disability; physical activity; paediatrics; neurological rehabilitation

Phone: +61 3861 6055

Email: Iain.Dutia@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Brisbane Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0368-6410

Dr Iain Dutia is a Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the School of Allied Health at the Australian Catholic University. He is also a research officer within the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland.

Iain has a background in physiotherapy, with experience in physical activity for people with disability. His clinical and research interests are in the physical and mental health benefits of competitive Para sport. He co-ordinates the ParaSTART program: a training and research program for people with complex disabilities participating in Para sport. He is a member of the World Para Swimming high support needs working group. Iain is a Para athletics medical classifier, and sits on classification advisory panels for both Athletics Australia and Paralympics Australia.

Select publications

• Dutia, Iain, Curran, Declan, Donohoe, Adam, Beckman, Emma and Tweedy, Sean Michael (2022). Time cost associated with sports participation for athletes with high support needs: a time-motion analysis of tasks required for para swimming. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 8 (4), e001418. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2022-001418
• Reedman, Sarah E., Sakzewski, Leanne, McNamara, Lynda, Sherrington, Catherine, Beckman, Emma, West, Kerry, Trost, Stewart G., Thomas, Rachel, Chatfield, Mark D., Dutia, Iain, Gennen, Alix, Dodds, Bridget, Cotton, Zoë and Boyd, Roslyn N. (2022). Study protocol for Running for health (Run4Health CP): a multicentre, assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial of 12 weeks of two times weekly Frame Running training versus usual care to improve cardiovascular health risk factors in children and youth with cerebral palsy. BMJ Open, 12 (4), e057668. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057668
• Wilson, Paula J, Connick, Mark J, Dutia, Iain M, Beckman, Emma M, Macaro, Angelo and Tweedy, Sean M (2021). Does sports-specific training improve measures of impairment developed for para sport classification? A multiple-baseline, single-case experiment. Journal of Sports Sciences, 39 (sup1), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2021.1883309
• Enright, Eimear, Beckman, Emma M., Connick, Mark J., Dutia, Iain Mayank, Macaro, Angelo, Wilson, Paula J., O'Sullivan, Jennifer, Lavalliere, Jean-Michel, Block, Turner, Johnston, Leanne M., Panagoda, Gaj and Tweedy, Sean M. (2020). Competitive sport, therapy, and physical education: voices of young people with cerebral palsy who have high support needs. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55 (10), bjsports-2020. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102276
• Dutia, I. M., Connick, M. J., Beckman, E. M., Johnston, L. M., Wilson, P. J., Macaro, A. and Tweedy, S. M. (2019). Evaluating the effects of performance-focused swimming training on people with cerebral palsy who have high support needs - a study protocol using single-case experimental design. Brain Impairment, 21 (2), 1-18. doi: 10.1017/BrImp.2019.15

Appointments and Affiliations

Appointments

• Lecturer, Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health, Australian Catholic University, 2022 -
• Research Officer, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, 2019 -
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NHMRC CRE: CP-Achieve, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, 2019-2021.

Professional Affiliations

• Australian College of Physiotherapists
• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
• Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Health Care Professions Council
• American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
• Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine

Public engagement activities

• The Conversation - The Paralympics strive for inclusion. But some rules unfairly exclude athletes with severe disabilities
  https://theconversation.com/the-paralympics-strive-for-inclusion-but-some-rules-unfairly-exclude-athletes-with-severe-disabilities-166347
• ParaSTART program - promotional video
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_r12QAOvWE&t=35s