Barbara E. Gibson | |
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Academic background | |
Education | B.Sc. Rehabilitation Science in Physical Therapy, 1986, University of Manitoba PhD, Collaborative Programs in Bioethics and Health Care Technology and Place, 2006, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Thesis | Men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a Bourdieusian interpretation of identity and social positioning. (2006) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Toronto |
Barbara Ellen Gibson is a Canadian physiotherapist. In 2016,she was elected to the College of New Scholars,Artists,and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.
Gibson received her Bachelor of Medical Rehabilitation in Physical Therapy from the University of Manitoba in 1986 and her PhD in the Collaborative Programs in Bioethics and Health Care Technology and Place at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (U of T). [1]
Following her formal education,Gibson joined the Department of Physical Therapy at U of T. In this role,she received a three-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grant in 2012 for her project The Challenge Module for evaluating advanced motor skills of children with cerebral palsy:From measurement to child centred goal setting. [2] She was later awarded a 2012 Faculty of Medicine Teaching Award for Excellence. [3] As an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Senior Scientist at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital,Gibson was appointed to the Bloorview Kids Foundation Chair in Childhood Disability Studies. [4]
In 2016,Gibson published Rehabilitation:A Post Critical Approach to re-examine the philosophical foundations of rehabilitation. [5] Later that year,she was elected to the College of New Scholars,Artists,and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. [6] Following her election,Gibson was promoted to the rank of Full Professor. [7]
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".
Eva Lucille Feldman is an American physician-scientist who is a leading authority on neurodegenerative disease. She serves as the Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan,as well as Director of the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies and ALS Center of Excellence at Michigan Medicine. She was also named the James W. Albers Distinguished University Professor of Neurology.
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.
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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.
Molly S. Shoichet,is a Canadian science professor,specializing in chemistry,biomaterials and biomedical engineering. She was Ontario's first Chief Scientist. Shoichet is a biomedical engineer known for her work in tissue engineering,and is the only person to be a fellow of the three National Academies 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.
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,prior chief of the Division of Nephrology,now Chair of the Department of Medicine.
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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. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
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.
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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."
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