Speakers
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Mark Bayley, MD, FRCPC Dr. Mark Bayley is Medical Director of the Brain and Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program at UHN-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and an Associate Professor at University of Toronto in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He chairs the Evaluation Committee for the Ontario Stroke Network. He is an author of the Canadian Stroke Best practice recommendations and a number of other and international clinical practice guideline groups including the expert panel for Stroke Quality Based Payment procedures for the Ministry of Health in Ontario that have lead to improvements in care.
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Jocelyn Harris, PhD, OT (reg ONT) Dr. Harris is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of clinical experience centered on inpatient rehabilitation of individuals with stroke and brain injury. Dr. Harris completed her graduate work at the University of British Columbia and a CIHR funded post-doctoral fellowship at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute She is currently an associate professor in the occupational therapy program at McMaster University. Dr. Harris has expertise in the design, implementation, management and analysis of clinical trials. Current funded research is focused on the development and evaluation of motor and cognitive based rehabilitation programs for individuals with neurological conditions.
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Rita Katznelson, MD, FRCPC Dr. Katznelson is a Staff Anesthesiologist and Medical Director of Hyperbaric Medicine Unit in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network and an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto. She is one of the co-founders of the Rouge Valley Hyperbaric Medical Center.
She completed her training in Anesthesia in Israel and obtained a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia and pain medicine at the University of Toronto. She has been practicing hyperbaric medicine since 2012. Dr. Katznelson is an author of multiple publications including research clinical reports, editorials and book chapters. She is a recipient of a number of peer reviewed research grants. Her areas of interest include postoperative neurocognitive dysfunction, chronic pain and the therapeutic applications for hyperbaric medicine.
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Kristin Musselman PT, MSc (Neuroscience), PhD (Rehabilitation Science) Dr. Musselman is a physical therapist and Scientist with the Neural Engineering and Therapeutics Team at TRI-UHN. She was a CIHR Post-doctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Kennedy Krieger Institute from 2010-2013. Her research interests include the rehabilitation of individuals with spinal cord injury and children with cerebral palsy, including methods of training gait, balance and upper limb function. She also studies novel applications of FES and the implementation of FES into clinical practice. Dr. Musselman’s research is funded by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, and Rick Hansen Institute.
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Steve Page, OTR/L, PhD, MS, FAHA, FACRM, FAOTA Dr. Page’s team develops and tests approaches that increase function and independence after stroke and other neurologic diseases. He has held uninterrupted extramural funding to support his rehabilitative trials for over 15 years, and has produced many "firsts" in neurorehabilitation, developing and showing efficacy of mental practice, portable robotics, modified constraint-induced therapy, functional electrical stimulation, brain stimulation in moderately impaired individuals, and several other innovative strategies in people with acquired brain injuries. He has also published well over 100 peer reviewed articles, and has served as guest issue editor for 14 special issues of rehabilitative and neurological journals since 2001. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association, The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, and The American Occupational Therapy Association, and a standing panel member on NIH's Function, Integration, and Rehabilitation Sciences Panel.
Dr. Page has organized and chaired regional, national, and international neurorehabilitation conferences, joint meetings of the American Society of Neurorehabilitation/the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine as well as serving on the Board of Directors for these organizations. Locally, he created and co-directed the Ohio Neurorehabilitation Academy.
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Milos R. Popovic, Dipl. El. Eng. (Electrical Engineering), Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), P. Eng. Dr. Popvic is the Associate Scientific Director at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network and holds the position of Toronto Rehab Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research. As well, he is a tenured professor with the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Popovic’s fields of expertise are functional electrical stimulation, neuroprostheses, neuro-rehabilitation, neuromodulation, brain machine interfaces, physiological control systems, assistive technology, modeling and control of linear and non-linear dynamic systems, robotics, and signal processing.
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Denyse Richardson, BScPT, MD, MEd, FRCPCDr. Denyse Richardson is an Associate Professor at The University of Toronto and a Clinician Educator at both the University of Toronto and The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. After completing her fellowship in PM&R (Physiatry) at University of Ottawa, she completed a Masters of Education in Health Professions at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/ University of Toronto.
She is strongly committed to Medical Education and in fact her commitment to education stretches beyond Medicine, across many Health Professions. She has multiple roles in undergraduate, postgraduate and faculty development/continuing professional development at local and national levels.
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Rosalie Wang, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.) Rosalie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto and an Affiliate Scientist at Toronto Rehab. Prior to completing her PhD in Rehabilitation Science and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, she worked as an Occupational Therapist in Canada and England. Her research includes developing and clinically evaluating robots for upper limb stroke rehabilitation and assistive robots to help older adults with dementia to complete daily activities. As an AGE-WELL NCE investigator, she is examining the equity of access and procurement of assistive technology in Canada.
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Lois B. Wolf, PT, MSPT, MBA Mrs. Wolf is primarily a physical therapist clinician with over 35 years’ experience in treating neurological and orthopedic diagnoses. She has published or contributed to several refereed papers
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Steven L. Wolf, Ph.D., PT, FAPTA, FAHA Dr. Wolf is a world renowned expert in the rehabilitative treatment and study of stroke survivors. He has developed several approaches to treatment including EMG biofeedback and forced use of the hemiparetic upper extremity. With over 40 years of clinical and research experience he has published more than 250 refereed papers, run multiple NIH funded clinical trials and has lectured extensively. He currently is the Georgia site co-principal investigator for the NIH NINDS-funded Stroke Network and serves as co-chair for the national StrokeNet working group in rehabilitation and recovery for the United States.
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