Chantale Dumoulin, Ph.D.

Education

• B.Sc. (P.T.), Physiotherapy, McGill University (1988)
• M.Sc., Biomedical Sciences  (option: Rehabilitation) (1994)
• Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences  (option: Rehabilitation), (2004) at Université de Montréal, (randomized clinical trial, development of a pelvic floor dynamometer)
• Postdoctoral studies, McGill University (distribution of health services and development of interview-based studies) and Stanford Medical School (MRI, 3D reconstruction of the pelvic floor muscle (2007)
• Fellowship during sabbatical, Cochrane Incontinence Review Group, Aberdeen University, Scotland (Meta-analyses) (2013).

Major projects underway

• Randomized clinical non-inferiority trial aimed at assessing the cost-efficiency of two physiotherapy treatments to treat urinary incontinence in elderly women.
• Meta-analysis focusing on the efficacy of pelvic floor exercises to treat urinary incontinence in women: a Cochrane review.
• Meta-analysis focusing on the efficacy of pelvic floor exercises, medication and surgery to treat urinary incontinence in older women: a Cochrane review.
• Study of vascular changes and changes in vaginal moisture following pelvic floor exercises in elderly women with urinary incontinence.
• Gait and balance evaluation in older women with and without urinary incontinence
• Study of group-based pelvic floor physiotherapy for urinary incontinence on stigmatisation

Selected publications

• Mercier, J., Morin, M., Reichetzer, B., Lemieux, MC., Khalife, S., Dumoulin, C. (2016) Pelvic floor muscles training to reduce symptoms and signs of vulvo-vaginal atrophy: a case study. Accepted in Menaupose.
• Sran, J., Mercier, P., Leiblich, P., Wilson, C., Dumoulin, C. (2016) Physical therapy for urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis or low bone density: a randomised control trial. Accepted in Menopause.
• Morin, M., Dumoulin, C., Mayrand, MH. (2016) Randomized clinical trial of multimodal physiotherapy treatment compared to overnight lidocaine ointment in women with provoked vestibulodynia: Design and methods. Accepté dans Contemporary Clinical Trials. Ms. No. Chi-15-340R1.
• Dumoulin, C., Hunter, KF., Moore, K., Bradley, CS., Burgio, KL., Hagen, S., Imamura, M., Thakar, R., Williams, K., Chambers, T. (2015) Conservative management for female urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse review 2013: Summary of the 5th international consultation on incontinence. Neurourol Urodyn. 2015; 35(1):15-20.
• Dumoulin, C., Hay-Smith, J., Frawley, H. and McClurg, D. (2015). 2014 Consensus Statement on Improving Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Adherence: International Continence Society 2011 State-of-the-Science Seminar. Neurourol & Urodynamics, 2015; 34(7): 606-614.
• Elliott, V., de Bruin, E., Dumoulin, C. (2015) Virtual reality rehabilitation as a treatment approach for older women with mixed urinary incontinence: a feasibility study. Neurourol Urodyn. 2015 Mar; 34(3). 236-243.
• Pontbriand-Drolet, S., Madill, S., Tang, A., Dumoulin, C. (2015) Differences in pelvic floor morphology between stress continent, stress urinary incontinent, and mixed urinary incontinent elderly women: An MRI study. Accepté à Neurourology & Urodynamics. Neurourol Urodyn. 2015 Mar 1. Online1-7.
• Madill, SJ., Pontbriand-Drolet, S., Tang, A., Dumoulin, C. (2015) Changes in urethral sphincter size following rehabilitation in older women with stress urinary incontinence. Int Urogynecol J. 2015 Feb; 26(2): 277-283.Neurourol Urodyn. 2015 Apr 34(4): 300-308.
• Fraser, S., Elliott, V., DeBruin, E., Bherer, L., Dumoulin, C. (2014) The effects of combined video game dancing and pelvic floor training to improve dual-task gait and cognition in women with mixed-urinary incontinence. Games for Health Journal; published online, 3(3): 172-178.

Research orientation

Dr. Chantal Dumoulin’s research chair in Urogynecological Health and aging focuses on the health of elderly women. Studies deal mainly with urinary incontinence, a very frequent problem in this population. More specifically, Dr. Dumoulin is studying the aging of the female urinary system in order to better understand the physiopathology of urinary incontinence among older women. She is also looking into the prevention and treatment of this problem as well as trying to identify the women more likely to benefit from conservative treatment such as rehabilitation of the pelvic floor muscles. Her methodological expertise includes the development and psychometric evaluation of measurement tools as well as assessment of the efficacy of treatments using randomized clinical trials and systematic review.