Jay Ebert

Jay is a Director and Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP) at HFRC, a leading exercise rehabilitation clinic with a focus in muscluoskeletal and orthopaedic rehabilitation, located in Perth, Western Australia. He has extensive experience working with patients of all musculoskeletal conditions, with a particular focus on lower limb injury and post-operative rehabilitation following orthopaedic surgery. He completed his PhD in cartilage repair, biomechanics and exercise rehabilitation for which he was awarded the Exercise and Sport Science Australia (ESSA) Medal (2008). Since this time, he has been involved academically at the School of Human Sciences within the University of Western Australia (UWA), and is now a Lecturer and Researcher in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Through his clinical and research work at UWA, he has been (and continues to be) involved in the project development and coordination of several large orthopaedic research programs. Through this work, he has published in excess of 50 research manuscripts with a focus in cartilage repair and Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI), presented extensively in the field of orthopaedics and exercise rehabilitation, and attracted grant monies in excess of $1,000,000 for various musculoskeletal research projects.