Rate My Professor Tim Lathlean

Dr. Tim Lathlean served as Adjunct Lecturer in the Discipline of Exercise and Sports Science, School of Science and Technology, at the University of New England from 2021 to 2022. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Injury Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Sports Medicine from Monash University between 2012 and 2017, and a Masters in Clinical Rehabilitation from Flinders University from 2009 to 2012. With over ten years of experience in research, private practice, and community care, Lathlean has held managerial roles, including Team Leader for Physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology services in a community health centre. His expertise encompasses project management for observational studies and various systematic review types, including intervention, diagnostic, prognostic, and scoping reviews.

Lathlean's research specializations include sports injury epidemiology, particularly the interplay between training load, player wellness factors such as sleep, fatigue, soreness, stress, and mood, and injury risk in elite junior team sports like Australian football. His PhD work examined these relationships, contributing to injury prevention strategies. Key publications include 'Elite Junior Australian Football Players With Impaired Wellness Are at Increased Injury Risk at High Loads' (Sports Health, 2022), 'Absolute and relative load and injury in Elite Junior Australian football players over 1 season' (International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 2020), 'A prospective cohort study of load and wellness in elite junior Australian football players' (International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 2019), and 'The incidence, prevalence, severity, mechanism and body region of injury in elite junior Australian football players' (Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2018). He has also investigated exercise-based interventions for clinical populations, authoring 'Effects of muscle strengthening and cardiovascular fitness activities for poliomyelitis survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis' (Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2021), 'The clinical utility and reliability of surface electromyography in individuals with chronic low back pain: A systematic review' (Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2024), and 'Effectiveness of combined surgical and exercise-based interventions following primary traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation' (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2023). Lathlean was a finalist for the Early Career Researcher Sports Science Award at the Exercise and Sports Science Australia Conference in 2021. He supervises higher degree research students in team collective behaviour, exercise interventions for musculoskeletal conditions, and environmental effects on physiology and performance.