Rate My Professor Beatriz Ito Ramos De Oliveira

Dr. Beatriz Ito Ramos De Oliveira serves as a Visiting/Adjunct academic in the Curtin School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. She holds a PhD in Physiotherapy, an MSc in Adapted Physical Activity, and a BSc in Physiotherapy. In her teaching role, she coordinates the HUMB1008 Integrated Applied Anatomy unit, contributing to the training of students in applied anatomy within health sciences. She also co-organized the 16th Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists (ANZACA) in 2019 alongside colleagues from Curtin University and the University of Western Australia, demonstrating her engagement in advancing clinical anatomy education.

Dr. Oliveira's research focuses on gait disorders in Parkinson's disease, particularly freezing of gait severity assessment; water-based exercise interventions for vascular function, inflammation, and fitness in chronic heart failure patients; and eLearning adaptations in physical therapy education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key publications include 'eLearning in Physical Therapy: Lessons Learned From Transitioning Courses During the COVID-19 Pandemic' (Ng et al., Physical Therapy, 2021), 'Twelve weeks of water-based circuit training exercise improves fitness in people with chronic heart failure: A randomised controlled trial' (Scheer et al., Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2021), 'Scoring festination and gait freezing in people with Parkinson’s: The freezing of gait severity tool-revised' (Scully et al., Physiotherapy Research International, 2023), 'Time to Navigate: A Practical Objective Clinical Measure for Freezing of Gait Severity in People With Parkinson Disease' (Scully et al., Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2025), and 'The effects of water-based circuit exercise training on vascular function and inflammation in people living with heart failure: a randomised controlled trial' (Scheer et al., American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 2023). Her contributions enhance clinical tools and rehabilitation strategies in physiotherapy and exercise science. For teaching excellence, she received the 2022 Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning ('Taking a page from Darwin's evolution theory and evolving anatomical education') and the 2020 Curtin Teaching Excellence and Innovation Awards Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.