Lorimer Moseley

Lorimer is Bradley Distinguished Professor in Clinical Neuroscience, Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy and CEO of the not-for-profit Pain Revolution. His main interests are persistent pain and other protective feelings – how do they work? How can we reduce them and their immense disabling impact? His work includes cognitive and behavioural experiments, clinical trials and population-level implementation studies. He has authored 440 scientific articles and seven books, with translations in seven languages. His foundational discoveries and communication of them to diverse audiences, have transformed rehabilitation pathways in numerous countries and treatments he devised are now recommended frontline care internationally. He has been recognised by honours in 16 countries, as well as world peak bodies in several fields. In 2020, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, that country’s second highest civilian honour, for ‘distinguished service to humanity at large in the fields of p