Dr Dawn Tan is Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology and teaches in the undergraduate physiotherapy programme. Dawn completed her Doctor of Clinical Physiotherapy with the University of Melbourne in 2011. She has worked extensively with patients with neurological and vestibular disorders at the Singapore General Hospital. Dawn’s areas of research interests include stroke, Parkinson’s disease and vestibular rehabilitation. She is particularly interested in identifying predictors of falls and falls prevention management in these groups of people. She endeavours to deliver and contribute to evidence-based practice to improve physical and health outcomes, as well as to empower patients and caregivers in their journey to wellness.

Dr Tim Xu is an Occupational Therapy Assistant Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology and holds a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Sydney, Australia. He has over 20 years of experience working with older adults and stroke population in community rehabilitation settings in Singapore and Australia. Tim worked closely with many community organisations and government agencies to promote ageing in place in older adults and community reintegration after stroke. He has successfully piloted a few community-based programs locally, such as Stepping On fall prevention program in older adults, Stepping On after stroke program, multicomponent frailty management (Say No To Frailty) program for community-living older adults and community reintegration after stroke (CREATE) program.

Lester Jones is an experienced educator and Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) titled-Pain Physiotherapist. He has postgraduate qualifications in behavioural sciences, teaching and learning, and pain, including a MScMed(PainMgt), University of Sydney. His PhD explored the utility of the Pain and Movement Reasoning Model which he co-created. Professionally, he was the inaugural chair of the APA National Pain Group (2014-2017) and is active as the Research Officer for the International Association for the Study of Pain SIG, Pain related to Torture, Organised Violence and War. He is also in his second term on the Singapore Pain Association council. He has extensive experience in postgraduate teaching having led the pain topics module in La Trobe University’s Master of Sports and Masters of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy programs from 2016-2019. He has been involved in developing resources and delivering pain topics across a range of contexts and disciplines: for psychiatry trainees at the University of Melbourne, for the ‘Better Pain Management’ program (an initiative led by ANZCA); to midwifery students at the Australian Catholic University; and with the TEMPO team working to build capacity in Australian General Practitioners to deliver pain management. In 2021, Lester worked with an interprofessional group in Vietnam to present on the IASP toolkit for developing multidisciplinary pain clinics. His clinical experience includes working in interdisciplinary pain management clinics and consulting work with survivors of torture and his current scholarly work includes evaluating pain literacy in health professionals and exploring women’s experience of labour pain. He has been employed at Singapore Institute of Technology since July 2018.