Eleanor Main PhD, MSc, FCSP

Eleanor Main has been closely involved with clinical physiotherapy, teaching and research at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the UCL Institute of Child Health for the last 22 years. She qualified as a physiotherapist at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1988. In 1991 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Africa while working as a physiotherapist at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town.

Her clinical background is primarily in paediatric neurophysiotherapy and respiratory care, predominantly at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She was awarded an MSc in Research Methods from Kings College (1995) and a PhD in paediatric respiratory physiology from University College London (2001). She was appointed as Lecturer in Children's Physiotherapy Research at the Institute of Child Health in 2001 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at University College London in 2007.