Meet 2024 speaker Dr. Felicity Braithwaite

Dr. Felicity Braithwaite is an early-career postdoctoral fellow with the prestigious Body in Mind research group, University of South Australia. She completed her PhD in 2018 and her Bachelor of Physiotherapy (with Honours) in 2014. She is passionate about using rigorous methodology to enhance the quality of clinical research and ultimately, the evidence-base for pain treatments. Her PhD work on improving blinding in clinical trials for complex pain treatments has been highly influential in the pain field. Her research has been presented at more than 30 national and international conferences and professional events and published in 22 peer-reviewed articles in top-quality journals.
She is currently Lead Coordinator of a multisite clinical trial investigating education and exercise for knee osteoarthritis. In 2020 she was awarded a $150,000 research translation fellowship (Arthritis Foundation of South Australia) to lead her own line of osteoarthritis research, in which she aims to improve the lives of people with chronic pain through strong partnerships with consumers.