Researchers

Together with their Quebec colleagues, the professors at the School of Rehabilitation are leaders in the field of rehabilitation science. Since 1980, our professors have supervised more than 160 graduate students. Our researchers have received many awards and research grants from provincial and federal agencies and each year publish a significant number of scientific articles and participate in many national and international conferences.

Below is a summary of the fields of interest of professors/researchers from the School of Rehabilitation:

Auger, Claudine

  • e-Health
  • Rehabilitation Technologies
  • Older adults
  • Assessment
 Barthélemy, Dorothy

  • Neuronal plasticity following a lesion to the central nervous system
  • Role of the motor cortex and of the vestibular system in balance and gait control
  • Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation and of electrical stimulation to assess neuronal pathways.
 Bier, Nathalie

  • Impact of cognitive deficits on daily living activities
  • Healthy and pathological cognitive aging
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Gerontechnology
Bottari, Carolina

  • Traumatology
  • Assessment and measurement
  • Performance functions
  • Activities of daily living
 Bourbonnais, Daniel

  • Upper limb motor performance
 Briand, Catherine

  • Mental health
  • Health services
  • Program evaluation
Carlesso, Lisa Demers, Louise

  • Assistive technology
  • Older adults living with physical disability
  • Family caregivers
  • Outcomes measures et psychometry
  • Social participation
 Desmeules, François

  • Epidemiology and organisation of health services
  • Advanced practices of physiotherapy
  • Orthopedic interventions and musculoskeletal rehabilitation
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Duclos, Cyril

  • Balance control
  • Proprioceptive stimulation
  • Muscular vibration
  • Analysis of movement
 Dumont, Nicolas

  • Musculoskeletal regeneration
  • Acute and chronic inflammation
  • Atrophied muscle function
  • Muscle dystrophies
 Dumoulin, Chantale

  • Urinary incontinence
  • Pelvic floor muscle
  • Aging
  • Women’s health
Dyer, Joseph Omer

  • Clinical reasoning
  • Education in health sciences
  • Online learning
  • Lower limb rehabilitation post-CVA
 Feldman, Debbie

  • Access to health services
  • Rheumatology
  • Epidemiology
  • Musculoskeletal problems
 Filiatrault, Johanne

  • Home care services
  • Evaluation of programs for the elderly
  • Falls prevention
  • Health promotion/Health education
  • Rehabilitation professionals as change agents
  • Volunteer/leisure activities and seniors health
Fortin, Carole

  • Pediatrics
  • Motor control (posture and gait analysis)
  • Idiopathic scoliosis, head injury and cerebral palsy
  • Muscular and sensorimotor functions
 Gagnon, Dany

  • Upper extremity performance
  • Sitting balance
  • Wheelchair mobility
 Gagnon, Isabelle (Associate)
Gosselin, Julie

  • Neonatal care and disorders
  • Child development
  • Neurological sequelae
 Higgins, Johanne

  • Cerebralvascular accidents (CVA)
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation
  • Performance and evaluation of the upper extremity
  • Development of assessment and measurement tools
 Kairy, Dahlia

  • Evaluation and implementation of new technologies in rehabilitation and telerehabilitation
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Vestibular rehabilitation
  • Qualitative approaches
Laberge, Marie

  • Socio professionnal integration of adolescents
  • Health promotion at school and at work
  • Prevention of work injuries and disabilities
  • Differentiated analysis by sex/gender
 Lal, Shalini

  • Youth mental health, well-being, and resilience
  • Mental health services, knowledge translation
  • eMental health
  • Qualitative, participatory, and mixed-methods research
 Larivière, Christian (Associate)

  • Low back pain
  • Neuromuscular impairments
  • Rehabilitation
  • Lumbar stability
Nadeau, Sylvie

  • Walking and other functional activities
  • Determinants and rehabilitation of locomotor function
  • Pathokinesiology of the lower limb
 Poissant, Lise

  • Knowledge application
  • Information technologies
  • Evaluation of rehabilitation services
  • Cerebral vascular accidents (CVA)
 Rochette, Annie

  • Social participation
  • Cerebral vascular accidents (CVA)
  • Caregivers
  • Pedagogy
Rousseau, Jacqueline

  • Measurement
  • Environment : the person/environment relation
  • Gerontechnology
  • Maintenance in the community
 Rushton, Paula Simard, Marie-Noëlle
Swaine, Bonnie

  • Quality of rehabilitation services
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Development of measuring tools
  • Program evaluation
 Vachon, Brigitte

  • Knowledge transfer
  • Continued professional development
  • Reflexive practice
 Veillette, Nathalie

  • Occupational therapy in the emergency department
  • Assessment of the functional status
  • Geriatrics