Professor Linda Denehy is professor of physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne and a registered physiotherapist. She has a joint appointment as a professor of health services research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Denehy has extensive physiotherapy teaching and learning experience at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and as Head of Department of Physiotherapy (2011-2017), she introduced the new doctor's of physiotherapy (DPT) at the UoM in 2011. Her research interests are acute care before and during rehabilitation (oncology, perioperative medicine, and critical care), as she is passionate about improving patient centred outcomes. Denehy has over 200 publications, including 40 invited papers, and she has successfully secured grants worth in over AUD 16m as the chief investigator for six nationally funded grants and a UK Wellcome Trust and NIHR grant on rehabilitation topics. She has delivered over 50 invited presentations and is a passionate mentor, supervising over 40 graduate research students to the completion of their studies, including four current students and six postdoctoral researchers. Denehy has several international collaborations in the UK (Queens university Belfast, University of Southampton, University of Manchester, University College London), the USA (Duke University, U Colorado at Denver, University of Alabama), and Vietnam (HCMC), and she has worked with Oxford University's Clinical Trials Unit.