Rate My Professor Stephney Whillier

Stephney Whillier serves as the Postgraduate Course Advisor in the Department of Chiropractic within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. Her academic background encompasses a BSc (Hons) in Experimental Physiology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; a B.Ed with Honours Specialist in Biology from York University, Canada, including additional studies at the University of Toronto; and a PhD from Macquarie University. She holds registrations with the Ontario College of Teachers and the New South Wales Department of Education and Training. In her career at Macquarie University, she has worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer in the Department of Chiropractic, unit convenor for courses such as Medical Sciences A (CHIR6302), Pathology and Diagnosis I (HLTH3302), and others, contributing to teaching in medical sciences, pathology, diagnosis, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and clinical management.

Whillier's research specializations include chiropractic education—covering student research readiness, clinical decision-making, learning styles, and teaching innovations like team-based learning, flipped classrooms, and intensive delivery modes—as well as biochemical research on glutathione synthesis and turnover in human erythrocytes, antioxidants, free radicals, oxidative stress in type II diabetes, exercise and insulin resistance, nonpharmaceutical symptom management for multiple sclerosis, Pilates rehabilitation, and mental health literacy in chiropractic students. Notable publications are "Team-based learning in neuroanatomy" (2021, with Reidar P. Lystad and Joyce El-Haddad), "Exercise and Insulin Resistance" (2020), "Effects of Nonpharmaceutical Treatments on Symptom Management in Adults With Mild or Moderate Multiple Sclerosis: A Meta-analysis" (2019, with Keira Leigh Byrnes), "Program design for evidence-based health education" (2018, with Natalie Spence and Rosemary Giuriato), "No differences in grades or level of satisfaction in a flipped classroom for neuroanatomy" (2015), "Intensive mode delivery of a neuroanatomy unit: lower final grades but equivalent knowledge" (2013), "Glutamine and α-ketoglutarate as glutamate sources for glutathione synthesis in human erythrocytes" (2011), and "Role of N-acetylcysteine and cystine in glutathione synthesis in human erythrocytes". Her work has received over 900 citations, impacting chiropractic pedagogy and metabolic biochemistry.