Dr Haynes is a clinician / academic, holding a full-time teaching and research appointment at UWA and a part-time Accredited Exercise Physiologist in private practice. He has led curriculum development and coordinated units in the undergraduate of Sports and Exercise Science course and leads units in Neurological Rehabilitation and Work Integrated Learning units (preparing students for the workplace) in the Master’s of Clinical Exercise Physiology course.

Dr Haynes has led randomised-controlled trials involving exercise training interventions for health, involving participants with a variety of clinical conditions, aiming to optimise body composition in people taking weight loss medications.  Dr Haynes has also led data collection for 2 follow-ups of the Raine Study, investigating the developmental and behavioural origins of health and disease.

Dr Haynes has practical skills and proficiency that spans bench top science to the clinical provision of exercise therapy for individual patients. This involves phlebotomy, cell staining and flow cytometry, exercise and testing and prescription, vascular sonography and thermoregulation. He has gained ~$1.2 million in competitive research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Foundation (NHMRC) and National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHF) to lead research projects related to human health.

Dr Haynes is unit coordinator of Neurological Rehabilitation, Work Integrated Learning 1 and 2, and Exercise as Medicine. Clinically, he works with patients with a variety of clinical conditions (e.g. musculoskeletal, post-operative rehabilitation, stroke rehabilitation, multiple sclerosis, cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, diabetes) through various funding/referral pathways (e.g. NDIS, worker’s compensation, private, Medicare funded Chronic Disease Management Plan).