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Assembly on Pulmonary Rehabilitation Early Career Research Achievement Award

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Meet the 2025 Winner: Angela Burge, PT, PhD

Angela Burge

Angela T. Burge, P.T., Ph.D., is an early career researcher at Monash University and Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Burge completed her Ph.D. in 2020, investigating ways to optimize home-based rehabilitation models for people with COPD. A physiotherapist by training, a key focus of Dr. Burge’s research includes the economic evaluation and determination of cost-effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical interventions for people with chronic respiratory disease. She holds a joint clinical-academic appointment to support and guide health professionals to design and undertake robust clinically relevant research.

Description

This award is given to a Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) Assembly member (primary or secondary) who has recognized scientific contribution(s) to the principles and practice of pulmonary rehabilitation and has made contributions to PR Assembly (and ATS) activities. Relevant research contributions may include but are not limited to: program structure, program content, outcomes or outcome measures, skeletal muscle dysfunction, exercise training, adjuncts to exercise training, mechanisms underlying benefits of PR, education, self- management, health-enhancing behavior change, social or psychological support, knowledge translation and program accreditation.

Criteria

  • At the time of submission nominees must be a maximum of 7 years from date of conferral of highest research degree, or, if no research degree, from date of first faculty appointment (career disruption will be considered).

Proposers must submit a nomination package including:

  1. Details and confirmation of the nominee’s status as a primary or secondary member of the PR Assembly
  2. Date of conferral of doctoral level degree
  3. Date of first faculty appointment (if applicable).
  4. A one page letter from a primary member of the Assembly describing the nominee’s contributions (including to the PR Assembly/ATS) and why the award is appropriate
  5. The nominee’s curriculum vitae, including details of career disruption where relevant.

Applications will be scored on the basis of the details provided in the submitted nomination.

Awards will only be given where suitable candidates are nominated.

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