Professor Susan Coote, UL Adjunct Clinical Professor, Physiotherapy

Susan is UL Adjunct Clinical Professor and MS Irelands Exercise and Physiotherapy coordinator. She works translating the evidence for exercise and physiotherapy for MS in clinical practice leading a team of directly employed physiotherapist and contractor physio, yoga and fitness instructors. She was Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at UL, specialising in neurological rehabilitation. She was appointed to UL in 2003 and taught and researched in the area of neurological rehabilitation at undergraduate and postgraduate levels until 2019. She was the director of the MS Research team at UL and a member of the Health Research Institute and Centre for Physical Activity and Health Research. She leads a programme of work that is a collaboration with Multiple Sclerosis Ireland, UL and the HSE. Her research mission is “to reduce symptom severity and improve quality of life for people living with MS through research and education that impact on practice”. Her recent research agenda has concerned the application of physiotherapy and exercise interventions for people living with MS with a range of mobility limitations, in a community health care setting. She has expertise in leading multicentre RCT’s of exercise interventions, studies evaluating the effects of augmenting exercise with technology, evaluating measures of physical activity, and qualitative research of participant and carer perceptions of interventions.