Professor Kath McPherson

Kath McPherson is Professor of Rehabilitation (Laura Fergusson Chair) at the Health and Rehabilitation Research Centre, AUT University in Auckland. She completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh exploring how individuals and their families recover and adapt after moderate to severe brain injury. From 1997-2001, Kath worked at the Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit at University of Otago - Wellington, then taking up a post as Reader in Rehabilitation at the University of Southampton. She returned to New Zealand (AUT) in 2004 building a research, teaching and consultancy programme focused on improving interventions and outcomes for people experiencing with disability. Current projects are funded by the Accident Compensation Corporation, the Health Research Council, the UK-NHS and a number of charitable organisations. Kath provides the commentary for Rehabilitation Research Review.

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