Beverley Catharine (Cathy) Craven, BA, MD, FRCP(C), MSc, CCD
Molly Verrier Dip P&OT, MHSc (Physical Therapy)
Beverley Catharine (Cathy) Craven, BA, MD, FRCP(C), MSc, CCD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and HPME, Univeristy of Toronto, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Dr. Beverley Catharine (Cathy) Craven is a Physiatrist with a Clinician Scientist role at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – University Health Network in Ontario, Canada. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine & Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Craven earned her BA cum laude in Kinesiology at York University in North York, Ontario, and her MD and residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. After graduating, she completed a SCI fellowship and obtained a Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto.
Dr Craven’s clinical and research expertise is in the prevention and treatment of secondary health conditions among people with spinal cord injury, with a particular focus on sublesional osteoporosis and health service provision. Dr Craven is the Ontario lead for the SCI-IMPACT team, an interprovincial group of 26 clinicians and scientists from Ontario and Quebec focused on ameliorating secondary health conditions after spinal cord injury. She has been the Scientific Co-chair of the 1-5th Canadian National SCI Conference. Dr Craven is leading production of the Rick Hansen Institute sponsored E-scan atlas “Capturing Capacity in Canadian SCI Rehabilitation”. Dr. Craven has been the recipient of 15 honors and awards; she was the 2011 recipient of the University of Toronto, Department of Medicine, Division of Physiatry, “Innovator of the Year Award”. She has authored or coauthored articles over 60 articles on these and related topics.
Milos R. Popovic PhD, PEng
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Milos R. Popovic received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1996, and the Dipl. Electrical Engineer degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1990.
Dr. Popovic is the Toronto Rehab Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research. He is also a Professor in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, as well as Senior Scientist and the Neural Engineering and Therapeutics Team Leader at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. Both institutions are located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2011, Dr. Popovic established the Centre for Research in Advanced Neural Implant Applications (CRANIA) at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Popovic joined the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the Toronto Rehab in 2001. From 1997 until 2001 he led the Rehabilitation Engineering Team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the Paraplegic Center of the University Hospital Balgrist, both in Zurich, Switzerland. From 1996 until 1997, he worked for AlliedSignal Aerospace Canada Inc. in Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Popovic’s fields of expertise are functional electrical stimulation, neuro-rehabilitation, brain machine interfaces, modeling and control of linear and non-linear dynamic systems, robotics, power systems, signal processing, and safety analysis. His interests are in the areas of neuro-rehabilitation, physiological control systems, assistive technology, and brain machine interfaces.
In 1997, together with Dr. Thierry Keller, he received the Swiss National Science Foundation Technology Transfer Award - 1st place. In 2008, Dr. Popovic was awarded the Engineering Medal for Research and Development from the Professional Engineers of Ontario and Ontario Society of Professional Engineers. In 2011, he was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2012, Dr. Popovic’s company, Simple Systems, has won the 1st Prize and the Best Intellectual Property Award at the annual TiEQuest Business Venture Competition. He is also one of the co-founders of the Canadian National Spinal Cord Injury Conference and Advances in Neurorehabilitation Conference (FICCDAT) established in 2004 and 2007, respectively.
Molly Verrier Dip P&OT, MHSc (Physical Therapy)
Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto; Toronto
Rehabilitation Institute
Molly Verrier is Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. She trained originally as a physical therapist and occupational therapist at the University of Toronto. After practicing as a clinical physical therapist in neuroscience she did her graduate training in Clinical Neurophysiology and Health Sciences at McMaster University. She has conducted research studies in the basic mechanisms of and the pharmaceutical approaches for spasticity, short and long latency responses in patients with spinal cord injury, Parkinson's disease, stroke and disordered postural control in stroke. She chaired the Department of Physical Therapy and the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science at the University of Toronto from 1994 to 2004. She is currently funded by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation to develop an Ontario Spinal Cord Injury Informatics system. The project is aimed at determining best practices in information management for developing and delivering services for individuals with spinal cord injury in Ontario. With collaborators and graduate students, she is studying restorative motor control and assessment and outcomes of neurorehabilitation interventions and service delivery across the continuum of care following spinal cord injury.
