BPhty (Otago), Honours Degree (Health Science) (UniSA), Postgrad Cert (Research Methodology) (UniSA), PhD (Curtin)
Dr Bunzli is a physiotherapist who received her PhD in January 2016 from the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University. In her PhD she developed methodological expertise in qualitative research and content expertise in health beliefs, behaviour and clinical communication.
Dr Bunzli is currently a post doctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital leading qualitative research within the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Total Joint Replacement: OPtimising oUtcomes, equity, cost effectiveness and patient Selection (OPUS).
In her program of research within OPUS, Dr Bunzli uses qualitative research methods to engage consumer voices to advance orthopaedic care. She has been awarded >$3.5million in funding from NHMRC (2), MRFF (1), St Vincent’s Hospital (3) and Physiotherapy Research Foundation (1). She is CIA on an NHMRC Project (APP1163613) evaluating patient and surgeon preferences, the feasibility and costs of performing sham (placebo) trials involving major orthopaedic surgical procedures through a mixed-methods approach involving discrete choice experiments with nested qualitative studies and health economics evaluation. Dr Bunzli is Chief Investigator on an NHMRC Partnership Project (APP1122983) to improve uptake of evidence based decision making among orthopaedic surgeons selecting patients for knee replacement surgery. She is also Chief Investigator on an MRFF Keeping Australians out of Hospital grant (APP1175374) implementing care pathways for people with advanced osteoarthritis. Dr Bunzli has been awarded seed grant funding to establish a new stream of research within OPUS, Enhancing Equity in Care for Aboriginal Australians with Osteoarthritis (ECCO).
Dr Bunzli mentors and supervises PhD students using qualitative research approaches to advance orthopaedic care. She currently co-supervises PhD students investigating patient-reported outcomes from joint replacement surgery; exploring the health literacy of patients undergoing joint replacement; and the impact of osteoarthritis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Dr Bunzli is Chair of the OPUS Education and Training subcommittee
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FEATURED Journal article
Misconceptions and the Acceptance of Evidence-based Nonsurgical Interventions for Knee Osteoarthritis. A Qualitative Study
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Project Types
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Research Grant
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Best Paper Presentation
Elsevier Book Prize
Best New Investigator Award - Musculoskeletal
Australian Postgraduate Award
Curtin Postgraduate Scholarship
Credentials
Positions
Research Fellow
Surgery - St Vincent'S Hospital
Registered Physiotherapist
Osteoarthritis Research Society International
Member
Australian Physiotherapy Association
Member Of The International Association For The Study Of Pain
International Association for the Study of Pain
Member Australian Pain Society
Australian Pain Society
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Curtin University of Technology
Honours Degree (Health Sciences)
University of South Australia
Research Methodology
University of South Australia
Bachelor of Physiotherapy
University of Otago