Aliki Thomas
ALIKI THOMAS, PhD, OT (c), erg. is an occupational therapist and graduate of McGill. She earned a doctorate in educational psychology with a major in instructional psychology and a minor in applied cognitive science. She is completing post-doctoral training in knowledge translation at McMaster University’s School of Rehabilitation Sciences and CanChild Center for Childhood Disability Research.
Dr. Thomas is the Associate Director of the Occupational Therapy program at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University. She teaches in both the undergraduate and Master’s portion of the curriculum and chairs the Occupational Therapy Curriculum and Admissions committees. In addition to her interests in geriatric rehabilitation, she is involved in educational research in the health sciences. She has worked
with colleagues from medicine an
d nursing on interprofessional education projects and in faculty development initiatives across the faculty of medicine.
Her research is in the area of health sciences education where she uses an educational psychology perspective to examine teaching and learning in complex areas such as evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, expertise development, knowledge translation, instructional design and assessment of reasoning and problem solving in complex and ill-defined areas of practice.
Current research interests: Development of clinical competencies, evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, expertise development, instructional design and assessment of learning. She is currently involved in studies on knowledge translation and best practice in occupational and physical therapy with other rehabilitation researchers
E-mail: aliki.thomas [at] mcgill.ca
Tel: (514) 398-4496