Luc Noreau, PhD
ResearcherCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Rehabilitation
Faculty of Medicine
Université Laval
Dr. Noreau is an Adjunct Professor at the Rehabilitation Department, at the Université Laval, and Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Quebec City. From 1994 to 2006, he was a scholar of the Quebec Health Research Foundations. He has carried out projects in various fields but primarily in SCI rehabilitation. For more than 15 years, he has been the principal investigator of several projects carried out within the Québec SCI Centres of Excellence that aimed at assessing the rehabilitation services delivered to individuals with SCI. He is also the co-developer of the Assessment of Life Habits (LIFE-H) instrument to measure social participation. From January 2008 to December 2009, he was Scientific Director (Lead) of the Community Integration Practice Network.
Sander L. Hitzig, PhD
Scientist
St. John’s Rehab Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Dr. Hitzig is a Scientist at St. John’s Rehab Research Program at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre). He earned his MA in Educational Psychology at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and PhD in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology from York University (Toronto, Canada). He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Toronto Rehab’s Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program, and then worked as a Scientist at Toronto Rehab and a New Investigator at Sunnybrook’s Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomics (HOPE) Research Centre from Jan 2011 to Nov 2012. His areas of expertise are on aging with a disability, evaluating the impact of secondary health conditions on QoL, and identifying factors that promote health and well-being in the community following disability.
B.Catharine Craven, MD, FRCP(C), MSc
Clinician scientist
Toronto Rehab (Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program) – University Health Network
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Physiatry
University of Toronto
Dr. Craven received her MD from McMaster University, specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and recently completed a Masters degree in Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. Her expertise is in the prevention and treatment of sublesional osteoporosis and secondary medical complications of SCI. She has conducted multiple studies using drug (i.e. calcium supplements, risedronate) and/or rehab interventions (i.e. whole body vibration, standing, FES, body weight support treadmill training) for the prevention and treatment of sublesional osteoporosis. Dr. Craven is a recipient of many honours and awards, including the Fellowship Support Award presented by the Canadian Physiatry Research and Development Foundation. She has been the scientific co-chair of the 1st–5th National Spinal Cord Injury Conference.
François Routhier, P.Eng, PhD
ResearcherCentre for interdisciplinary research in rehabilitation and social integration (CIRRIS)
Associate Professor
Department of Rehabilitation and the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Université Laval
Dr. Routhier earned his B.Sc (1993) and M.Sc. (1997) in Mechanical Engineering at the Université Laval, and subsequently his Ph.D. (2004) in Experimental Medicine at the CIRRIS. Dr. Routhier’s research interests are on assistive technologies (impact assessment, development, and etc.), wheelchair skills training and assessment, development and validation of tools/methods of clinical/research assessment and training/education, development and evaluation of interventions with users of assistive devices, and social participation of assistive technology users.
Krista Best, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for interdisciplinary research in rehabilitation and social integration (CIRRIS)
Université Laval