Prof. Susanne Mak awarded FRQSC Doctoral Grant and Class of ’77 MedEd Innovation Grant
Prof. Susanne Mak was awarded a FRQSC Doctoral Grant, as well as the Class of ’77 MedEd Innovation Grants Program grant for her project named “Stakeholders’ perspectives towards the McGill OT mentoring program.” Funding of the MedEd Innovation Grant is designed to support the development and evaluation of educational innovations that advance the field of Health Professions education.
Renewal and Grant News
Congratulations to Dr. Keiko Shikako-Thomas for her re-appointment of 3 years. Dr. Shikako-Thomas also has been awarded a CRIR New Initiatives grant.
Poster Wins Award
Dr. Judith Soicher, PT Program Director, was awarded the Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals Poster Award at the Canadian Respiratory Conference at the end of April. The title of the poster was: “Barriers to exercise following pulmonary rehabilitation in individuals with COPD: A mixed methods study”.
Stroke Recovery
Dr. Marie-Hélène Boudrias has been awarded a Brain Canada Foundation grant to support her work in exploring why some people recover better than others after a stroke. This research has shown that recuperative capacity is often underestimated, therefore this work will be crucial in discovering how to better predict rehab potential.
KT in Medicine
Dr. Aliki Thomas has been awarded an RCPSC Royal College strategic grant. At the core of the success of competency-based medical education is the assessment of developmental progress and the identification of potential facilitatorsébarriers that could affect its implementation. As Co-PI, Dr. Thomas and her team will lay the foundation for robust knowledge translation activities that she will aim to pursue in a subsequent study.
Dr. Janaudis-Ferreira in the News
Dr. Tania Janaudis-Ferreira is part of a team of investigators to whom CIHR (Project Scheme Competition) has been awarded support to conduct a multi-centric trial to determine whether a supervised home-based exercise program combined with a protein supplementation is beneficial in improving physical function in frail older adults recovering from transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
Jones Salk Research Grant
Dr. Mindy Levin has been awarded the Jones Salk Research Grant Award by the March of Dimes for her work in helping people recover from acquired brain injuries, and for her important contributions in rehabilitation research and clinical practice. Congratulations from SPOT!
Towards a More Inclusive Québec Society
Sincere congratulations to Dr. Eva Kehayia and her team for being awarded a grant from the FRQS - the renewal of CRIR and its ranking (exceptional, exceptional and excellent) comes with an increased budget and a supplement, which is over and above the budget from FRQS. Special mention is also made in the document of dr. Philippe Archambault and Dr. Aliki Thomas as Axis and Theme leaders. Dr.
Successful Research Efforts at SPOT
Congratulations all around to the very successful research efforts at SPOT. Under the leadership of Director of Research, Dr. Matthew Hunt, this year we can see terrific objective results of these efforts: "Chercheurs-boursiers" - Senior - Dr. Philippe Archambault "Chercheurs-boursiers" - Junior 2 - Dr. Matthew Hunt "Chercheurs-boursiers" - Junior 1 - Dr. Marie Brossard-Racine and Dr. Timothy Wideman
Community Based Rehabilitation and Ethics: Eight Ethical Questions from a Review of the Literature
Stephen Clarke, Jessica Barudin, Matthew Hunt. (2016). Community Based Rehabilitation and Ethics: Eight Ethical Questions Arising from a Review of the Literature. Physiotherapy Canada. 68(2):197-205.
Link to article here.
Whole-of-government approaches to NCDs: the case of the Philippines Interagency Committee-Tobacco
This article points to the importance of not only structural features of whole-of-government approaches for NCD control but also the institutional culture and entrenched political and economic interests.
For more information and the article, see here.
Dr. Laurie Snider named interim SPOT Director
Congratulations!
Dr. Laurie Snider, Associate Director of SPOT and Associate Director of the Graduate Program has been named interim SPOT Director position!
Dr. Sara Saunders to be named Director of the Occupation Therapy Program in 2017
Congratulations!
Dr. Sara Saunders, Associate Director of the OT Program at SPOT
…has been named Director of the Occupational Therapy Program, when the term of the current OT Director, Dr. Bernadette Nedelec ends, in Spring 2017.
Laurence Roy and Tim Wideman re-appointed full time tenure track!
Dr. Laurence Roy and Dr. Tim Wideman have both been re-appointed as full-time tenure-track Assistant Professors at SPOT for three-year terms. This marks an important milestone in their tenure-track trajectory, and highlights the excellence that both these scholars have achieved in their fields. Congratulations from all of us at SPOT!
Marie Brossard-Racine awarded new grant from La Fondation du Grand Defi Pierre Lavoie
Marie Brossard-Racine is the PI on a new project funded by La Fondation du Gran Defi Pierre Lavoie. The project is titled “Quantitative MRI: A novel biomarker for disease progression in the leukodystrophies.” More information can be found at: goo.gl/vCY5vf
