Canada’s global health role: supporting equity and global citizenship as a middle power
Canada’s global health role: supporting equity and global citizenship as a middle power. An article by Stephanie A Nixon, Kelley Lee, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, James Blanchard, Slim Haddad, Steven J Hoffman, Peter Tugwell
Link to article here.
Dr. Marc Roig awarded CHIR grant
Dr. Marc Roig has been awarded a CIHR grant in the Movement and Exercise category for his project, "Exercise intensisty matters: a window of opportunity to promote neurorecovery and cardiovascular health in stroke," Dr. Joyce Fung is a co-investigator, from SPOT.
Media pick up on The Conversation
Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes recently contributed an article to the online not-for-profit media platform, The Conversation. Her article, "How we can design the music of our emotions," was then explored in a live radio interview on CJAD 800.
Dr. Wideman awarded CIHR
Dr. Timothy Wideman has been awarded a Planning and Dissemination Grant from CIHR for his project, "Developing stakeholder endorsement methodology to measure the outcomes of pain education in Canadian physiotherapy programs." Dr. Aliki Thomas and Dr. André Bussières are co-investigators on the ward.
Reference Text on Quality of Life Translated to Portuguese
The ISOQOL Dictionary, edited by Dr. Nancy Mayo, has been translated from English into Portuguese and is available for purchase in both languages through the ISOQOL website.
Council for Services to Children and Adolescents
Dr. Annette Majnemer was recently named to the MUHC Council for Services to Children and Adolescents (CSCA) for a 4-year term.
Reference Text on Concussions by SPOT's Dr. Gagnon
Dr. Isabelle Gagnon has returned from sabbatical, and has published a new authority textbook on concussions: "Sports Concussions: A complete guide to recovery and management.”
CIHR Canada 150 Initiatives at SPOT
CIHR recently put out a list 150 featured Canadian Researchers to celebrate Canada 150, and our own Dr. Annette Majnemer was featured for her work with CHILD-BRIGHT, and Dr. Nancy Mayo was featured for her Heel2Toe project.
PT Students Win for Research Projects
At the 2017 edition of the Faculty of Medicine Student Research Day, McGill SPOT Physiotherapy Students were well represented, winning three Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Final Report Awards. Ali Alias was awarded the Best Winter 2017 Research Report, Rachel Medvedev was awarded 2nd Place (Schools Category), Top Summer 2017 Research Report, and Yoon Seo Lee, was awarded 3rd Place (Schools Category), Top Summer 2017 Research Project.
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant for her project titled “Using participatory design to leverage biomusic technology to integrate neurodiverse populations into the workplace.”
CIHR New Investigator Grant
Dr. Marie Brossard-Racine and her team have been awarded a CIHR New Investigator Grant in Maternal Reproductive, Child and Youth Health for their project titled “One year of brain maturation following a preterm birth.”
Dr. Bernadette Nedelec elected to AOTF
Dr. Bernadette Nedelec has been elected to the prestigious American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) Academy of Research.
Recognized for her exemplary and distinguished contributions toward the science of OT, she now joins an elite group of scientists and scholars.
3rd Place Win for PT Students!
A group of Professional Masters's PT students supervised by Dr. Shawn Robbins was recently awarded 3rd place in the Canadian Physiotherapy Association 2017 Ann Collins Whitmore Student Research Competition. Melissa Cloutier-Gendron, Susan Gu, Shirley Ho, and Anthony Teoli co-authored a paper with Dr.
McGill SPOT OT Students Sweep OEQ Congress Poster Awards
Congratulations to SPOT OT Masters students: 4 groups of students won the best poster prizes in the 4 different categories at the Annual Symposium of the College of Occupational Therapists of Quebec (OEQ)!
2017 Alumni Award of Merit Awarded to Dr. Anne Carswell
Congratulations to Dr. Anne Carswell, recipient of the 2017 Medicine Alumni Global Award of Merit for the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to the profession. In addition to her work as an educator, researcher and clinician, she is a co-author of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and one of the founding directors of COPM Inc. More information can be found at:
