Rehabilitation Research Colloquium 2024

Prof. Marie-Hélène Boudrias (PT, PhD) is an Associate Professor at McGill University's School of Physical and Occupational Therapy. She is a researcher at the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital, a site of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR), for which she acts as responsible for Axe 1, which focuses on research into sensory, motor and cognitive functions and activities. She is a member of the expert committee for CHUM's network of clinics specializing in long COVID-19 and Lyme disease. Prof. Boudrias' research aims better to understand the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying interactions between brain areas. She uses neuroimaging and electrophysiology techniques and cutting-edge data analysis methods to measure these interactions. The aim is to identify biomarkers of aging, stroke and long COVID and design therapeutic interventions specific to each individual to improve/maintain cognitive functions. More recently. Prof. Boudrias has conducted studies to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the brain and the delivery of rehabilitation services in COVID-19-designated rehabilitation centers in Quebec.

Prof. Marika Demers is an assistant professor, in the School of Rehabilitation, at the Université de Montréal and an emerging researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal. Prof. Demers received her BSc in occupational therapy from the Université de Montréal, and her MSc and PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at McGill University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Motor Behavior and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California. She is also a trained occupational therapist with clinical expertise in stroke rehabilitation. Her research interests involve the use of health technologies to better assess and optimize arm and hand motor recovery for people with neurological impairments.

Prof. Ogourtsova is an occupational therapist and an Assistant Professor in School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University. Prof. Ogourtsova is leading the Pediatric Research Laboratory, RESI-ALLIANT KID where her research aims to improve the lives of children with brain-based developmental disabilities and their families. Her research interests include novel interventions to support live transitions, new methods of healthcare services delivery including the use of telerehabilitation/telehealth, virtual reality, and patient-oriented research methodology.

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Thank you to McGill University and Queen's University for their ongoing support in the Rehabilitation Research Colloquium partnership.

Thank you to our student-based abstract reviewing team from McGill University and Queen's University.

Thank you to the team at Fourwaves, especially Mathieu, for the help in making our vision come to life.