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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.