Professor Lisa Harvey, PhD, has 20 years clinical experience as a physiotherapist in the area of spinal cord injuries and another 25 years experience as an academic. She is currently based at the University of Sydney, where she leads her own research program, and supervises PhD students. She is currently Coordinating Principal Investigator on a large multi-centered international clinical trial (the SCI-MT Trial) looking at the effectiveness of an intensive form of motor training provided soon after spinal cord injury. She co-led the development of the Australian and New Zealand Physiotherapy Guidelines for the Management of People with Spinal Cord Injuries. She is chair of the Research and Scientific Committee of the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS), and Associate Editor for Cochrane, Section Editor for Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and recent past Editor-in-Chief of Spinal Cord. In addition, she leads the Sydney based unit of the Cochrane Rehab Thematic Group.