Professor Susan Coote

Dr Susan Coote is a physiotherapist specialising in neurological rehabilitation. For over 15 years she led the MS research team at UL researching the benefits of exercise and physical activity to reduce symptom severity and improve quality of life for people with neurological conditions living in the community. Prof Coote has published over 70 research papers and received over €1.5m in research funding supervising many PhD students in the area of exercise and MS. She currently works in MS Ireland running projects funded by SlainteCare integration fund, the Social Innovation Fund and Disability Services which implement into practice the research findings and learnings of the benefits of exercise.