Verity is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean Curriculum and Learning (Graduate Health Education) within the Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University. Verity has extensive experience as a clinical physiotherapist and supervises students and clinicians undertaking higher degree research. Her experience as a professional practitioner underpins her teaching philosophy and research objectives. Verity is considered an international leader in the physiotherapy management of individuals with Connective Tissue Dysplasias, particularly disorders associated with generalised joint hypermobility, and was recently senior author on the new international diagnostic framework for hypermobility disorders in paediatric populations. She is an invited speaker at both national and international level within her area of expertise: rare and complex conditions in paediatrics, focusing on pain, function and quality of life. Her teaching excellence has also been acknowledged having been awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

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Rachal is a Paediatric Physiotherapist with over 12 years of experiencing working with children and adolescents in tertiary teaching hospitals and private practices in Australia and Singapore. Rachal’s PhD project is developing guidelines for health professionals managing children and adolescents with hypermotility associated conditions and lower limb pain. 

Rachal graduated from The University of Sydney, with a Bachelor of Applied Science, Physiotherapy. In 2019 Rachal was formally titled as a Paediatric Physiotherapist by The Australian Physiotherapy Association. In 2021 she completed her Master of Research with Macquarie University and The Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, developing a classification system to predict short term treatment outcomes for clubfoot managed with the Ponseti technique. This work was published in the Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics in 2023. 

Rachal’s particular areas of interest are Developmental and Orthopaedic physiotherapy. Rachal is passionate about working collaboratively with young people, their families and other health professionals.