Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital. It is located in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It was founded in 1899,by a group of community-minded women who met in Toronto to discuss the creation of a "Home for Incurable Children".
Leighton Chan is an American medical researcher and rehabilitation physician. He is Chief of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department and Acting Chief Scientific Officer/Scientific Director at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
Mary Puthisseril Verghese (1925–1986) was a physician in India who was among the earliest pioneers of Physical medicine and rehabilitation in the country. Mary Verghese was instilled in a home where love and respect were two main factors in their close knit family. She was caring of others and wanted to give back to her community in any way that she could. In 1963,she took charge of what was the first department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with an inpatient facility in India at the Christian Medical College,Vellore. She was instrumental in expanding the services of the department with the establishment of the first inpatient rehabilitation institute of the country in 1966. In recognition of her contributions to the field of medicine,she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1972.
Malcolm Peat,MBE was a Canadian academic. He was a Professor Emeritus of Queen's University. He was a pioneer in the development of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation academically in Canada and was responsible for the design,development,implementation and evaluation of disability and rehabilitation practices throughout the world. He was the first Canadian physical therapist to obtain a doctoral qualification and to assume Directorship of a Canadian university school of rehabilitation,and the first to develop and implement university graduate studies in Rehabilitation in Canada.
Brenda Jean Andrews is a Canadian academic,researcher and biologist specializing in systems biology and molecular genetics.
Miriam Rossi was emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto,and a pediatrician in the division of Adolescent Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. She was Associate Dean of Student Affairs &Admissions at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine for 13 years. Rossi is best known for her contributions to diversity and health equity in undergraduate medical education.
Evdokia Anagnostou is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto,and is cross-appointed as pediatric neurologist and a senior clinician scientist at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto,Canada. She is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Translational Therapeutics in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Barbara Anne Croy is a Canadian reproductive immunologist and professor emerita in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen's University. From 2004 until 2016,Croy was a Canada Research Chair in Reproduction,Development and Sexual Function. In 2017,she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focus is on mice pregnancy and natural killer cells.
Pamela E. Klassen is a Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto,co-appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In 2019,Klassen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Susan E. Quaggin is a Canadian nephrologist. She is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology.
Catriona Margaret Steele is a Canadian clinician-scientist. She is a Full professor in the department of speech-language pathology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in the University Health Network.
Janice Jennifer Eng is a professor in the University of British Columbia's Department of Physical Therapy and Canada Research Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation.
Mona R. Loutfy is a Canadian clinician-scientist and infectious disease specialist.
Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez is an American academic physiatrist and rehabilitative medicine physician. She chairs the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Long School of Medicine within the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and previously served as the medical director of the Brain Injury and Stroke Program at TIRR Memorial Hermann.
Kathleen Anne Martin Ginis is a Canadian exercise behavioural scientist. She is a Full professor in the Department of Medicine and in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She also holds the Reichwald Family UBC Southern Medical Program Chair in Preventive Medicine.
Diane Terri Finegood is an American–Canadian kinesiologist,chemical and biomedical engineer,and physiologist. Finegood was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2007.
Mary K. Gospodarowicz Evans is a Canadian oncologist. She is a University Professor at the University of Toronto and the past Medical Director at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.
Teresa Yeong Lih Liu-Ambrose is a Canadian physical therapist. She is a Canada Research Chair of Physical Activity,Mobility,and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.
Kelly A. Metcalfe is a Canadian scientist and a professor at the University of Toronto and at Women's College Hospital. Her work's focus is on understanding the clinical and psychosocial implications of genetic testing for BRCA gene mutations in women,men and their families.
Fabrisia Ambrosio is a Brazilian-born physical therapist and researcher. She is the Director of Rehabilitation for UPMC International and an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine &Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on developing regenerative technologies to prevent or reverse the effect of age and/or environmental exposures on stem cell and tissue function. In 2022,Ambrosio was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for "outstanding contributions to the novel field of Regenerative Rehabilitation,integrating applied biophysics and cellular therapeutics to optimize tissue function."
