Narelle Dalwood is an education-focussed senior lecturer and unit coordinator in the physiotherapy department at Monash University. Narelle has a strong background in neurological physiotherapy and education and has combined her clinical and educator roles throughout her career. Narelle has previously held senior clinician positions at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Monash Health and has been an educator since 1998. Narelle’s key focus is on how best to prepare physiotherapy students for clinical practice. Narelle has always taken a keen interest in developing clinical competence in students whilst ensuring that the clinical educator is supported and the patient receives physiotherapy that is safe, effective, culturally responsive and underpinned by the best available evidence. To this end she has developed a unique, innovative, scalable peer simulation program for physiotherapy students at Monash University, where students are supported and educated to act as simulated patients for each other during teaching of pre-clinical skills. This program provides rich learning opportunities for students as they prepare to transition to the reality of clinical work. Narelle has an established track record in research around peer simulation including two invited commentaries, a systemic review and a podcast all published in the esteemed journal, Medical Education and has also co-authored a book chapter on preparing learners for uncertainty in health professions education. She has recently completed a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study, including a randomised controlled trial, that investigated the efficacy of different approaches for educating students to portray the patient role for each other. In 2018, Narelle was awarded a Vice Chancellor's citation for outstanding contribution to student learning acknowledging her work in the peer simulation program.