Rose Galvin is a Professor in Physiotherapy at the University of Limerick. She has a long-standing interest in applied health research in ageing, reflecting her professional background in physiotherapy and her post-doctoral training in applied clinical epidemiology. She is a recipient of a Health Research Board 2020 Research Leader Award exploring models of integrated care for older adults following discharge from the Emergency Department. She was Vice President of the Irish Gerontological Society (2019-2022) and is a founding member and co-director of the Ageing Research Centre at UL.

Rose is an Irish registered (CORU) Professor in Physiotherapy in the School of Allied Health (SAH). She completed her undergraduate physiotherapy degree, as well as her PhD at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research broadly focuses on the identification and management of older adults living with frailty across care settings. In the past five years, she has been awarded in excess of €3.3 million as Principal Investigator (PI) and a further €5 million as co-applicant from a number of grant funding agencies. In 2020, she was awarded a highly prestigious €1.5 million Health Research Board of Ireland (HRB) Research Leader in recognition of her track record of leading health research that has delivered evidence to directly inform changes in Irish health policy and practice. She has supervised 21 students across allied health, nursing, pharmacy and medicine to PhD completion.