Rachel Kennedy

Dr Rachel Kennedy (B.Physio, PhD) has worked as a physiotherapist for over 25 years with children, young people and their families; the last 15 years has included a clinical and research role in the Neuromuscular clinic and research team at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She holds a joint appointment with the Neurosciences research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. In this role, she has been involved in international studies, including for the Co-operative International Neuromuscular Research Group (CINRG) for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and industry-sponsored pharmaceutical trials for children with DMD and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Rachel completed her PhD studies investigating gait and functional ambulation in children and adolescents with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2018 and continues to investigate the utility of gait as a functional outcome measure in paediatric neuromuscular diseases. She is the recipient of a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust travel fellowship to investigate the implementation of exercise for children and young people with neuromuscular disease.