Position: Associate Professor
Building: Hosmer House, 3630 prom Sir-William-Osler
Office Room: H-301B
Mailing Address: 3654 prom Sir-William-Osler, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1Y5
Office Phone: 398-4498
Lab Room: H17
Fax: 398-8183
patricia [dot] mckinley [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
Education: BA (Zoology) UCLA; MA (Developmental Biology) UCLA; PhD (Kinesiology) UCLA
Teaching:
POTH 612: Advanced Research Methods
POTH 624: Professional Master's Project
Research Keywords:
leisure activities, vulnerable populations, dance, cognitive function development
Research Description:
The major focus of Dr McKinley's current research program is the investigation of leisure-based physical activities for promotion of health and well-being in vulnerable populations, with a special focus on dance as a rehabilitation tool.
Affiliations:
Jewish Rehabilitation Centre
Recent Publications:
Pinniger R, Brown R, Thorsteinsson E, McKinley P. Turning emotions into motion; use of Argentine tango for persons with self-declared depression. J Complementary Medicine (in press)
Sofianidis G, Hatzitaki V, McKinley P. Expertise, auditory guidance and cultural influences on dance performance. J Dance Medicine & Science (in press)
Li K, Roudaia E*, Lussier M, Bherer L, Leroux A, McKinley P. (2010) Benefits of cognitive dual-task training on balance performance in healthy older adults. Journal of GerontologyA: Biological and Medical Sciences 12:1344-1352
Schneiberg, S.* Patricia A McKinley, Heidi Sveistrup, Erika Gisel, Nancy E Mayo, Mindy F Levin (2010)Task-oriented intervention and trunk restraint on upper limb movement quality in children with cerebral palsy Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 52:245-253
Schneiberg, S.*, McKinley, P., Gisel, E., Sveistrup,H., and Levin, M. (2010) Reliability of kinematic measures of functional reaching in children with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 52: 167-173
Duquette, J.*, McKinley, P., Mazer, B., Gelinas, I., Vanier, M., Benoit, D., Gresset, J. (2010) Impact of partial administration of the Cognitive Behavioral Driver’s Inventory on concurrent validity in individuals with brain injury. Am J of Occ Therapy 64:279-287
Jasmin, E.*, Couture, M., Gisel, E., McKinley P. (2009) Impact of sensory responses and motor skills on functional skills in ADL of pre-school children with autism. J Autism and developmental Disorders 39:231-41
McKinley, P., Jacobson, A.*, Bednarczyk V., Leroux A., Rossignol M., and Fung J (2008) A community-based Argentine tango dance program improves functional balance and confidence in at-risk older people: a randomized control feasibility study. JAPA 16:435-453
Sveistrup, H., Schneiberg, S.,* McKinley, P., McFadyen B., and Levin M (2008) Head, Arm and Trunk coordination during reaching in children. Experimental Brain Research, 188:237-47
McKinley, Patricia (2009) En santé grace au tango in “Tango corps á corps culturel" (ed F Joyal) Presses de l'Université du Québec
McKinley, Patricia (2007) El programma Canadiense de Tango, in Con el corazon y el tango (Ed Roberto Peidro y Ricardo Comsco) ed., Guadal, Argentina pp 63-67