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Occupational Therapy and Stroke Rehabilitation Dr Gustafsson is an early career researcher with an established research priority in the area of occupational therapy and acquired brain injury. The focus of past and current research projects includes the assessment and management of the hemiplegic upper limb, transition to home from hospital after acquired brain injury, improving participation after acquired brain injury and improving outcomes after driving cessation.
Dr Gustafsson is currently a chief investigator on one NHMRC grant and three smaller competitive grants. She currently supervises 7 postgraduate research students and 9 undergraduate research students. She is the co leader of the Acquired Brain Injury and the driving cessation research groups within the Division of Occupational Therapy at the University of Queensland. She is also a member of the Emerging Researchers in Ageing and the Ageing Mind Initiative at the University of Queensland.
Dr Gustafsson was the OT Expert on the National Stroke Foundation working party for the development of the Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery in 2005 and is a member of the executive committee and OT expert for the guidelines that are currently under development. Dr Gustafsson is an expert reviewer for the Australian Journal of Occupational Therapy, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation.
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