Dr. Rachael Rietdijk

Rachael is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Manager in the Discipline of Speech Pathology at The University of Sydney, with experience working as a speech pathologist with people with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and their families for over 15 years. She completed her PhD in 2020, which was focused on the use of telehealth to support people with TBI and their family members or carers with developing communication skills. Her PhD lead to the development of the published communication program ‘TBIconneCT’, which is in use in brain injury services nationally and internationally.