University College London
Professor Eleanor Main (BSc, BA, MSc, PhD, FCSP), Professor of Physiotherapy, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Eleanor Main is UCL’s first Professor of Physiotherapy, with over 32 years of experience at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the UCL Institute of Child Health. Her career spans clinical paediatric physiotherapy, postgraduate education, and translational research. Since 2005, she has led UCL’s Postgraduate Physiotherapy programmes, supervising 13 PhD students and more than 120 MSc dissertations.
Her research focuses on clinical efficacy and outcome measurement in paediatric physiotherapy, with a particular emphasis on respiratory care and cystic fibrosis. She has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications and secured more than £4.4 million in research funding. She led Project Fizzyo, an award-winning initiative that gamified airway clearance techniques for children, while capturing real-time physiological data to inform treatment strategies.
Professor Main is co-editor of the 5th edition of Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy: Adults and Paediatrics (Elsevier, 2016), a leading international textbook in the field. She holds degrees in Physiotherapy (University of the Witwatersrand), English and Psychology (UNISA), an MSc in Research Methods (King’s College London), and a PhD in Paediatric Respiratory Physiology (UCL). She was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in 2011 for her contributions to education and paediatric cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, and has served as elected President of the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists since 2020.
S31.1- Quality Over Quantity: Why Technique Matters
Saturday, October 25, 2025
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT