Lisa-Christin (Lisa) Wetzlmair is an Associate Lecturer at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) and the Medical School.

Lisa’s main research interests are related to ensuring person-centred, safe health and social care by practising interprofessional collaboration. She is passionate about advocating interprofessional education in health and social care sciences across the globe and introducing the future health and social care workforce to telehealth in their undergraduate and postgraduate education. In her research, Lisa utilises mixed methods to investigate service users’, service providers’, and students’ opinions and experiences with interprofessional collaboration and to analyse the effects of curricula changes in health and social care education.

Lisa completed her PhD at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and her MSc in Public Health in Denmark. She is an Occupational Therapist by background and has been working internationally in clinical and academic settings. As a member of the Executive Committee of COTEC (Council of Occupational Therapists for the European Countries), she is eager to shape the European healthcare policy landscape and is advocating for the role of Occupational Therapy in the interprofessional team. She also represents Austria at the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT).