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Robert Teasell
Robert Teasell, MD
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Stroke
Dr. Robert Teasell is a physiatrist at Parkwood Institute, a Professor in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University, former Chair-Chief and current Research Director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is a Clinical Researcher with Lawson Health Research Institute, Parkwood Institute Research and Director of the CORRE Research Group. Dr. Teasell has authored over 800 publications including over 350 peer-reviewed articles and has been involved with $24 million of research funding. He has won over 50 awards including Lawson Scientist of the Year, and Post-Acute Stroke Excellence Award, both in 2018, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and National Stroke Association in the United States.
Dr. Teasell has supervised many graduate students and since 2014, three research team members have won the Lawson Leadership Impact Award (best graduate student at Lawson Institute) and three have become Vanier Scholars. Research interests include the Clinical Application of Best Evidence in Neurorehabilitation. Projects include: Stroke Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Review, Acquired Brain Injury Evidence-Based Review and Spinal Cord Injury Evidence-Based. The details of all projects within the CORRE Research Group can be found on the lab website.
Siobhan Schabrun
Siobhan Schabrun, PhD
Professor, School of Physical Therapy
Chronic Pain
Siobhan Schabrun is the incoming William and Lynne Gray Endowed Research Chair in Mobility and Activity and Professor in the School of Physical Therapy. Her research program is focused on understanding, treating and preventing persistent pain – a major cause of reduced mobility and activity amongst otherwise healthy individuals and those living with musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. In addition, Professor Schabrun explores the use of non-invasive brain stimulation technologies to boost neuroplasticity and improve outcomes following traditional forms of rehabilitation such as exercise, functional electrical stimulation and virtual reality training. Professor Schabrun is passionate about improving the translation of research evidence into practice and about promoting the participation of women and girls in science.
Steven Macaluso
Steven Macaluso, MD
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Implementation Science and Education
Dr. Steven Macaluso is a physiatrist at Parkwood Institute and an Associate Professor and the current Residency Program director in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology prior to completing his medical degree at Western University in 2007. He went on to complete residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Western University in 2012.
He is currently a consultant physiatrist on the Stroke and Neuro rehabilitation unit at Parkwood Institute and has outpatient clinics at Parkwood Institute, and the Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine Clinic. His current academic endeavors are focused on promotion of physical activity amongst individuals with impairment and disability, including formation of physical activity guidelines the design and implementation of an online evidence-based resource and clinical skills guide for the management of musculoskeletal disorders. Dr. Macaluso also has a special interest in Sports Medicine, has provided medical coverage for Team Canada at national and international levels, and is currently serving as a team physician for the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Team.
Sue Peters
Sue Peters, PT, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Physical Therapy
Stroke
Sue Peters is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Therapy at Western University. Professor Peters is also a trained physiotherapist and neuroscientist who uses neuroimaging to study how the brain functions to control mobility, and how mobility recovery can be optimized after injuries like stroke.
Professor Peters directs the Neurorehabilitation Physiology Lab, which uses advanced neuroimaging including functional near-infrared spectroscopy and electroencephalography to explore neural mechanisms of basic tasks like standing and stepping, to more complex tasks like stepping up and over a curb. Neuroimaging is completed along with task performance measures including kinematics and electromyography to learn how the behaviours that can be observed are linked with brain function. Projects include basic neuroscience questions around how the brain controls mobility, and clinical questions of how to promote mobility recovery through neurorehabilitation. Ultimately, Professor Peters’ lab aims to improve mobility outcomes and quality of life for people after stroke.
Susan Hunter
Susan Hunter, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Physical Therapy
Amputation; Mobility and Cognitive Health
Susan Hunter is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical Therapy and has appointments through Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Epidemiology & Biostatistics. Her research program is primarily dedicated to the investigation of falls and falls prevention in older adults, with a particular interest in the effect of changes in balance, gait and cognitive function with aging. Falls in older adults are a major cause of disability and dependence in older adults and represent a serious public-health concern in Canada and internationally. The ability to identify people at risk and the underlying mechanisms related to fall events is crucial to implementing interventions to prevent falls.
Specific areas of research interest include older adults with cognitive impairment and dementia, lower extremity amputees, lower extremity joint arthroplasty surgery, mobility aid use in different populations and attitudes of physiotherapists to working with people with dementia. Her recent research has been supported by funding from Alzheimer’s Association (USA) and Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation.
Swati Mehta
Swati Mehta, PhD
Lawson Scientist, Parkwood Institute Research
Mobility, Cognitive and Brain Health
Swati Mehta is a Scientist at Parkwood Institute Research and Lawson Research Institute, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Western University and a registered Psychotherapist. Professor Mehta leads the RehabPsych Lab. The aim of the lab is to improve activity engagement and overall wellbeing among those undergoing rehabilitation through online programs including virtual group based physical activity and internet delivered cognitive behavior therapy hosted on the lab’s website.
Professor Mehta has received over 1 million dollars in research funding to date and has authored over 65 peer-reviewed articles. She has been awarded the Lawson Impact Leadership Award in 2016, the Royal Society of Canada Alice Wilson Award in 2017 and the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Excellence Award in 2017.
Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty, MD; PhD
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Neuromuscular Function
Dr. Tim Doherty is a physiatrist and is the Chair/Chief of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department at Parkwood Institute and a Professor in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. Dr. Doherty completed a PhD in kinesiology at Western University in 1993 and residency training in in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at McMaster in 2000.
Dr. Doherty is a past President of the Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, examiner for the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, Associate Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute and is a member of the Editorial Boards of Muscle and Nerve, and the Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease. Dr. Doherty is a renowned expert in the study of mobility and pioneered the development of quantitative electromyography (EMG) techniques that have been employed to study aging, motor neuron disease and peripheral neuropathies.
Tom Miller
Tom Miller, MD
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Neuromuscular Function
Dr. Thomas Miller is a physiatrist at Parkwood Institute and an Associate Professor in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Miller completed his medical degree at Queen’s University in 1989, and then completed subsequent training in physical medicine & rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa and a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at University of New South Wales in Australia.
Dr. Miller is the Medical Director of the neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation program at Parkwood Institute, Director of the Electrodiagnostic laboratory, consultant physiatrist with the Hand and Upper Limb Centre. He is also the co-director of the Peripheral Nerve Clinic at Parkwood Institute, a multidisciplinary assessment and treatment program for major nerve injury. Specific areas of academic research include peripheral nerve injury and its rehabilitation, spasticity rehabilitation and the neurophysiological assessment of function and mobility.