MScRS Supervisors + Research Areas
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Email: kim.adams@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Children's development of cognitive, linguistic, social and motor skills; assistive technology development.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: aalto@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Oral sensorimotor system; computer modelling of head and neck functions including speech, swallowing, chewing, breathing; development of assistive technology to improve the predictability of surgical treatments; experimental validation of computer models of speech, swallowing, and chewing; adoption of advanced simulation techniques to surgical planning workflows.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: t.barlott@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Occupational science and the sociology of health, exploring the socio-political aspects of everyday life and pursuing social transformation. In particular, the allyship and freely-given relationships in community mental health.
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine and Centre for Neuroscience
Email: bennettd@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Neurophysiology of the spinal cord after injury (motoneuron properties, spasticity and recovery of motor function).
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: lauren.beaupre@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Musculoskeletal patient populations: elderly patients with hip fracture; total joint arthroplasty; trauma.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: suzette.phillips@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Mental health, spirituality and health, resiliency, neuroplasticity, community health service delivery (including the role of technology), geriatrics, and inter-professional education and research.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: mcharest@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Language development and disorders; language assessment; children's language processing.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: trelani@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Causes and correlates of typical and atypical language and reading achievement with a focus on the early years; prevention and early identification for children at-risk for reading-related learning disabilities.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: shuping2@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Social inclusion for individuals with serious mental illnesses, stigma and disability, recovery, substance misuse, campus mental health.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: jacqueline.cummine@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Examining the behaviour, functional and structural pathways of basic language processing.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: tdash@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Bi-multilingualism and cognition, involving behavioural and neuroimaging methodology.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: shaniff.esmail@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Sexuality; couple relationship; disability; physical assessment.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: ezeugwu@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Biomarkers, physical- and social-environment correlates and determinants of movement behaviours in people with neurological and cognitive impairments, and the relationships between sleep, sedentary behaviour, physical activity and health.
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Email: fenrich@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
The systems neuroscience of neural plasticity and functional recovery from spinal cord injury.
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Email: martin.ferguson-pell@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Biomedical engineering; neurosciences.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: pfiliatr@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Language comprehension (receptive language) of young children; improve assessment and early intervention.
Department of Physical Therapy and Centre for Neuroscience
Email: karim.fouad@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Promotion of functional recovery after spinal cord injuries by increasing the regenerative and plastic capabilities of the central nervous system.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: pooja.gandhi@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Delineation of pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying swallowing impairment across disease populations, evaluating targeted interventions addressing these mechanisms and translating best available evidence to the bedside to improve patient care related to swallowing.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: doug.gross@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Assessment and management of common musculoskeletal disorders; prevention of work-related disability; prognosis; functional assessment.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: bill.hodgetts@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Bone-anchored hearing aids; noise exposure from MP3 Players.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: sandra.hodgetts@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Collaborative, interdisciplinary research on interventions, supports and services that improve the health and participation of individuals with autism and their families.
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Email: tammy.hopper@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Cognition and language in normal aging, dementia, and aphasia.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: allyson.jones@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Patient health outcomes and health-related quality of life in geriatric patient populations; total joint arthroplasties; spinal stenosis; hip fracture; (epidemiology and clinical trials).
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: gregory.kawchuk@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Developing experimental methodologies to discern the relation between spinal mechanics, pain and potential solutions.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: esther.kim@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Nature and treatment of written language disorders in aphasia; cognitive and linguistic aspects of communication in normal aging and aphasia.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: ada.leung@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Cognitive rehabilitation.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: youran1@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Second-language speech development of child and adult newcomers to Canada; Language development of bilingual typically developing children & children with special education needs; Speech development of children who are enrolled in Chinese-English bilingual schools; Workforce diversity in the field of SLP in Canada
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: andrea.a.n.macleod@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Speech and language abilities of bilingual children and adults.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: trish.manns@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Health promotion strategies (ie physical activity, education) to promote optimal health and functional ability in adults with neurological disability.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: emccabe@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Patient-reported outcome measures in child and adolescent mental health services and rehabilitation.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: david.mcconnell@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Parenting with developmental disability; family care for children & young people with disabilities.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: margie.mcneely@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Cancer rehabilitation and exercise.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: miguelcr@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
The acceptance, adoption, and usability of technologies; the implementation and validation of technologies; and the design and development of ICT-based platforms to monitor and use data analytics to predict healthy aging trajectories.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: john.misiaszek@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Neurophysiology of motor control; neural control of locomotion and balance; feedback regulation of locomotion.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: eric.parent@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Assessment of measurement properties of questionnaires and performance measures; development of prediction rules to identify responders to physical therapy treatments; assessing the mechanisms of action of physical therapy interventions using quantitative measures from MR images; low back pain and scoliosis.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: aros@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Assistive technologies; investigating the use of assistive technologies to assess and promote cognitive skills and engagement in play in individuals with disabilities, mainly those with motor and cognitive impairment.
Department of Occupational Therapy
Email: mroberts@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Development of clinical reasoning and professional expertise over time; feedback and self-regulated learning; integration of technology with instruction, assessment, and curriculum design; and technology use in practice.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: mwieler@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Investigating and understanding the underlying mechanisms and potential treatments for people living with Movement Disorders (Parkinson disease, Huntington disease, dystonia, essential tremor) and other central nervous system disorders.
Department of Physical Therapy
Email: lwiart@ualberta.ca
Research Focus
Evaluation of the effectiveness of physical therapy interventions for children with cerebral palsy and pediatric rehabilitation service delivery for children with neuromotor disabilities.