Rate My Professor Mark Hancock

Professor Mark Hancock is a Professor of Physiotherapy in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University, where he serves in the School of Health Sciences. Possessing over 20 years of clinical experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in primary care settings, he now focuses primarily on academic and research activities. Hancock earned his BAppSci(Phty), MAppSc, and PhD from the University of Sydney in 2007. He joined Macquarie University in 2012 as Associate Professor and has since been promoted to Professor. Prior to Macquarie, he was employed at the University of Sydney and holds an ongoing Honorary Fellow position at The George Institute for Global Health. His research centers on the diagnosis and management of back pain, with specific interests in low back pain, imaging for low back pain, prevention of chronic low back pain episodes, and interventions for musculoskeletal pain. As a key figure in the Spinal Pain Research Centre, he has led projects on prevention strategies, implementation of interventions, and clinical outcomes.