Oren Tirosh

Associate Professor Oren Tirosh

Associate Professor, Clinical Biomechanics and Rehabilitation

Details

  • College: School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Department: Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Campus: Bundoora West Australia
  • oren.tirosh@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

A/Prof Oren Tirosh is an esteemed biomechanist, with extensive clinical and research experience in integrated human biomechanics. Oren specialises in movement analysis, wearable sensor technology, 3-dimensional clinical gait analysis and rehabilitation. Oren focus on innovative MedTech solutions using his expertise in building web-based repository platforms with smartphone motion sensors applications for remote postural balance and functional assessments. He has 25 years of postural balance and gait research with practical experience in clinical gait analysis working in the gait laboratory at the Royal Children's Hospital, and building digital health repository systems for orthopaedic joint replacement and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction patients including the Western Health hospital and industry partners. Oren engage and support elite and community athletes such as F1 driver Mark Webber, Australian high jumper and 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Eleanor Patterson, and Australian leading female marathon runner Sinead Diver.

Industry experience:
Senior lecturer in Biomechanics, Swinburne University of Technology.
Clinical staff & Senior Research Officer, Orthopaedics Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.
Research Data Manager, Orthopaedics Unit, Western Health, Melbourne.
Postdoctoral & Research Fellow, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne.
Founder & Director, Motion3D Pty Ltd.

Research fields

  • 420701 Biomechanics
  • 420109 Rehabilitation
  • 420302 Digital health

Academic positions

  • Senior Lecturer
  • Swinburne University of Technology
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1 Jul 2016 – 1 Feb 2024
  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Royal Children's Hospital
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1 Jul 2006 – 1 Jul 2016

Non-academic positions

  • Data Manager
  • Western Health
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1 Jan 2012 – 1 Jul 2016

Supervisor projects

  • Innovative Technology for Assessment of Ankle Proprioception in Chronic Ankle Instability
  • 14 Aug 2024
  • Characteristics of Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome in Athletes
  • 19 Mar 2024

Initiatives and links

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