Dr William McCann

Dr William McCann is Senior Officer (Research Projects) at RECOVER Injury Research Centre. He is also Manager of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Better Health Outcomes for Compensable Injury, which is based at RECOVER.

Since joining the team in March 2025, he has managed operations for the centre and knowledge translation for the CRE. He co-coordinates the MRFF-funded PICOT trial, which is evaluating scalable online training for physiotherapists delivering StressModex, an integrated psychological and physical intervention for musculoskeletal pain after road traffic injury. His other work includes a discrete choice experiment on supervision models for psychologically informed practice, and AI-assisted methods to assess therapist quality and fidelity in physiotherapy sessions.

William’s background is in healthcare psychology. His PhD at the University of Southern Queensland (2025) examined psychological recovery after cardiac surgery, particularly for people in rural and remote areas, and he holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) from The University of Queensland (2020).