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

Folarin Babatunde

  • Neuromusculoskeletal Health
  • Therapeutic Alliance
  • Behaviour Change
  • Exercise Adherence
  • Digital Health

Trevor Birmingham

Trevor Birmingham
  • Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
  • Clinical biomechanics
  • Osteoarthritis

Pavlos Bobos

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  • Clinical trials
  • Evidence Synthesis
  • Clinical Measurement
  • Research Methods
  • Musculoskeletal Health
  • Chronic Pain
  • Osteoarthritis
  • COVID-19, post COVID

Laura Brunton

Laura Brunton
  • Physical activity, pain, fatigue and sleep in children with cerebral palsy
  • Promoting self-management in cerebral palsy

Dianne Bryant

Dianne Bryant
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Research Methodology
  • Randomized Trials
  • Clinical Prediction Rules
  • Diagnostic Test Validity
  • Systematic Reviews with Meta-Analysis
  • Musculoskeletal Research

Denise Connelly

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

Samantha Doralp
  • Women’s Health
  • Early Motor Development
  • Clinical Education

Jayne Garland

Jayne Garland
  • Motor Control
  • Stroke Rehabilitation
  • Electromyography
  • Postural Control

Heather Gillis

Heather Gillis
  • Orthopaedics
  • Functional Anatomy
  • Manual Therapy
  • Curriculum development

Laura Graham

Laura Graham
  • Intervention for persistent symptoms post-concussion/mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)
  • Self-management promotion for mTBI

Susan Hunter

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

Joy MacDermid

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

Erin Miller
  • Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy practice
  • Simulation
  • Competence assessment
  • Educational scholarship

Pulak Parikh

Pulak Parikh
  • Upper extremity and spine research
  • Orthopaedic and sports medicine
  • Clinical measurement
  • Clinical trials for orthopaedic surgical and rehabilitative interventions

Sue Peters

Sue Peters
  • Neural control of human locomotion and mobility
  • Neuroimaging and neuroplasticity
  • Physiological mechanisms of neurorehabilitation
  • Personalized mobility rehabilitation

Alison Rushton

Alison Rushton
  • Spinal pain
  • Precision musculoskeletal rehabilitation
  • Sports Medicine
  • Evidence syntheses
  • Pilot, feasibility and definitive randomised controlled trials
  • Observational studies
  • Mixed methods

Jackie Sadi

Jackie Sadi
  • Manual and Manipulative Therapy
  • Occupational Health
  • Orthopaedic injuries related to the upper quadrant (cervical, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand)
  • Knowledge Dissemination

Siobhan Schabrun

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

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  • 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

Janelle Unger
  • Rehabilitation following spinal cord injury or disease
  • Disability across the lifespan
  • Balance and postural control

Dave Walton

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

Christina (Tina) Ziebart

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  • 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