Dr Jillian Rodda is senior physiotherapist in the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory and research physiotherapist in the Physiotherapy Department at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. She has extensive experience in three-dimensional gait analysis with children with gait disturbances. Her PhD thesis developed a systematic classification of sagittal gait patterns in spastic diplegic cerebral palsy with particular emphasis on severe crouch gait and outcome post single event multilevel orthopaedic surgery. Further research includes gait and function in Dravet Syndrome and hereditary spastic paraplegia, and surgical interventions in cerebral palsy. She has peer-reviewed publications, presents at conferences and workshops internationally and nationally and has overseen development of evidence-based physiotherapy guidelines. Dr Rodda is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne. She was awarded a Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellowship in 2012 to study overseas the tuning of the orthotic-footwear combinations for children with disabilities.

Developmental Disability and Rehabilitation