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Dr Susan Waller is Senior Lecturer in Interprofessional Education at the Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health (MUDRIH) Susan is responsible for interprofessional collaboration leadership through coordination of the development, delivery and evaluation of interprofessional education and practice programs across the School of Rural Health and Gippsland health services.

As a paediatric physiotherapist who has practiced for many years in various allied health services across the hospital and community sectors both in Australia and in the Middle East, Susan has experienced firsthand the importance of interprofessional education and collaborative practice to meet service user goals.

Susan studied the impact of an interprofessional student placement in community rehabilitation teams and was awarded a PhD in Interprofessional Education from the University of Queensland in 2010. She was part of a team who developed an Interprofessional Curriculum in the first Clinical School located in a large private hospital in Brisbane and has conducted training workshops in practicing interprofessionally.