Irmina graduated as a physiotherapist from the University of Sydney in 1991. After working in Australia and the UK as a musc physio, she returned to study to become a continence physiotherapist. She completed her PhD on the assessment and management of Male Urinary Incontinence in 2011. She then took up a new challenge as Associate Professor and the professional practice convenor at The University of Canberra, Australia in 2012.

She is an active member of the International Continence Society, the Continence Foundation of Australia, and the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s Continence and Women’s Health group. Irmina is still active clinically as well as doing research. Her research areas are all things pelvic floor and continence as well as clinical education. She is also an internationally recognised pelvic health educator.