Meet Our Faculty Members
Faculty members in the School of Physical Therapy are engaged in impactful research across a number of areas related to rehabilitation and health. Click on a faculty member's name to view their full profile and learn more about their research.
Research Supervisors and Interests
Greg Alcock
- Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine
- Clinical Outcome Measures
- Lower Extremity Injuries
Trevor Birmingham
- Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Clinical biomechanics
- Osteoarthritis
Pavlos Bobos
- Clinical trials
- Evidence Synthesis
- Clinical Measurement
- Research Methods
- Musculoskeletal Health
- Chronic Pain
- Osteoarthritis
- COVID-19, post COVID
Laura Brunton
- Physical activity, pain, fatigue and sleep in children with cerebral palsy
- Promoting self-management in cerebral palsy
Dianne Bryant
- Clinical Epidemiology
- Research Methodology
- Randomized Trials
- Clinical Prediction Rules
- Diagnostic Test Validity
- Systematic Reviews with Meta-Analysis
- Musculoskeletal Research
Denise Connelly
- Personal, professional and organizational resilience within LTC homes and community
- Building capacity in LTC and community health care for older adults
- Promoting functional independence in older adults
Samantha Doralp
- Women’s Health
- Early Motor Development
- Clinical Education
Jayne Garland
- Motor Control
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Electromyography
- Postural Control
Heather Gillis
- Orthopaedics
- Functional Anatomy
- Manual Therapy
- Curriculum development
Laura Graham
- Intervention for persistent symptoms post-concussion/mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)
- Self-management promotion for mTBI
Susan Hunter
- Falls and fall-related injuries in older adults
- Rehabilitation of the cognitively impaired older adult
- Balance, gait and falls in lower extremity amputees
Katie Kowalski
- Clinical reasoning in assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions
- Educational research
- Patient engagement in research and education
- Musculoskeletal spinal pain
Joy MacDermid
- Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies: Upper extremity orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation
- Clinical Measurement: Development and evaluation of MSK, pain, disability and work outcome
- Evidence Syntheses
- Prognostic Profiles and Personalized Rehabilitation: Sex/gender, occupational, personal or environmental factors
- Face-To-Face, Online, remote and wearable interventions for orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation
- Sex and gender in musculoskeletal disability
- Firefighter health
- Knowledge Translation: practice analysis, knowledge interventions, practice guidelines, predictors of knowledge uptake,
Jacquelyn Marsh
- Cost-effectiveness of interventions for the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions
- Evaluating alternative care delivery methods to improve the efficiency of current models of musculoskeletal care
Erin Miller
- Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy practice
- Simulation
- Competence assessment
- Educational scholarship
Pulak Parikh
- Upper extremity and spine research
- Orthopaedic and sports medicine
- Clinical measurement
- Clinical trials for orthopaedic surgical and rehabilitative interventions
Sue Peters
- Neural control of human locomotion and mobility
- Neuroimaging and neuroplasticity
- Physiological mechanisms of neurorehabilitation
- Personalized mobility rehabilitation
Emma Plater
- Orthopaedics and sport physiotherapy
- Exercise prescription in physiotherapy
- Technology in physiotherapy education
- Tactile sensory augmentation for rehabilitation
Alison Rushton
- Spinal pain
- Precision musculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Sports Medicine
- Evidence syntheses
- Pilot, feasibility and definitive randomised controlled trials
- Observational studies
- Mixed methods
Jackie Sadi
- Manual and Manipulative Therapy
- Occupational Health
- Orthopaedic injuries related to the upper quadrant (cervical, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand)
- Knowledge Dissemination
Siobhan Schabrun
- Neuroplasticity in health and disease
- Pain neuroscience
- Cortical biomarkers for pain
- Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging
- Human pain models
- Clinical trials and cohort studies: musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain
Andrews Tawiah
- Developing and evaluating Advanced Practice models of care.
- Evaluating Innovative models of care in primary care, specialist care and emergency department.
- Developing and evaluating Advanced practice models of care to strengthen rehabilitation in low- and middle-income countries.
- Evaluating Competency-based education in advanced health care practice.
Janelle Unger
- Rehabilitation following spinal cord injury or disease
- Disability across the lifespan
- Balance and postural control
Dave Walton
- Prognosis and longitudinal modelling in acute musculoskeletal trauma
- Trauma, pain, and disability in adults
- Scale design, measurement theory and evaluation
- Use of emerging technologies to optimize rehabilitation training, research, and outcomes
- Research on scholarship and teaching at the pre- and post-professional levels
- Defining and locating rehabilitation science and practice within the broader healthcare domain
Jennifer Van Bussel
- Musculoskeletal health across the lifespan
- Osteoarthritis and knowledge translation
- Clinical outcome measures
- Advanced practice
- Mentored clinical practice
Jessica Wong
- Musculoskeletal health
- Aging
- Disability and rehabilitation
- Population health and health equity
- Health services research
Christina (Tina) Ziebart
- Exercise interventions for osteoporosis fracture prevention and recovery
- Falls prevention strategies for home and community safety
- Knowledge translation strategies to increase adherence to exercise for older adults
- Population-based studies of bone health
