Eleanor has managed research clinics and clinical trials for the last 15 years. The research has mainly focused on neurodegenerative diseases and motor neurone disease trials both investigator-initiated grant sponsored trials and international pharma-sponsored trials in public hospitals, university research institutes and private clinical trials unit settings. She has experience with all phases and stages of clinical trials from start up to close out. She was the national program coordinator on 2 investigator-initiated multi-site clinical trials in the last 5 years.

Eleanor manages the Australian network of ALS clinical trial units ALLSTAR Clinical Trials. This is a collaborative group of specialised clinical trial units and researchers across Australia with a shared aim of providing more Australian patients with ALS the opportunity to participate in clinical trials by attracting more trials to Australia and discovering a cure for ALS. She is also a member of the International Network for ALS Research and Care (INARC) and is part of a working group developing the Pan Asia chapter of the network.