Dr. Amy Harding
Scientific Program Committee
Dr Amy Therese Harding is a Research Fellow and early career investigator, having conducted the ‘Lifting Intervention For Training Muscle and Osteoporosis Rehabilitation for Men’ semi-randomised controlled trial examining the effect of HiRIT on bone mass and risk factors for fracture in middle-aged and older men with low bone mass as her doctoral project. The LIFTMOR-M trial was highly successful, and findings were published in the top-ranking bone journals, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Bone, and Osteoporosis International, and the top-ranking biomedical engineering Journal of Biomechanics (all Q1 ranked). Dr Harding was awarded the 2020 ESSA PhD Thesis Medal, 2019 Bone and Osteoporosis Network Exchange Young Investigator Award (for the Bone Special Interest group of the ACSM), and 2019 ANZBMS Roger Melick Young Investigator Award. She has previously been a Research Associate coordinating the NHMRC funded ‘Vibration and exercise Intervention for Bone, Muscle and Osteoporosis Rehabilitation’ clinical trial at Griffith University, and is currently the Research Fellow and Project Coordinator of the MRFF funded STOP FRACTURE! (Strength Training for Optimum Prevention of Fracture. Refocusing A Clinical paradigm That Underutilises Recognised Effective therapy) study imbedding referral to evidence-based exercise into the osteoporosis model of care.
