Dahlia Kairy, Ph.D.

Education

• B.Sc. Physical Therapy, McGill University (1997)
• M.Sc. Rehabilitation Sciences, McGill University (2002)
• Ph.D. Public Health, Organization of Health Services option, Université de Montréal (2010)
• Postdoctoral Rehabilitation, Université de Sherbrooke (2012)

Current research projects

• Development of an intelligent power wheelchairs and social participation
• Development and evaluation of communities of practice
• Evaluation of rehabilitation knowledge translation strategies
• Telerehabilitation projects and virtual reality in patients who had a stroke (balance, upper limb)
• Telerehabilitation projects for exercise programs (prerehabilitation for total knee and total hip replacement, physical activity and spinal cord injury)
• Evaluation of telerehabilitation implementation in rehabilitation settings.

Selected publications

• Kairy, D., Soares Veras, MM., Archambault, P., Hernandez, A., Higgins, J., Levin, MF., Poissant, L., Raz, A., Kaizer, F. (2015) Maximizing post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation using a novel telerehabilitation interactive virtual reality system in the patient’s home: a study protocol of a randomized clinical trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials 4(47): 49-53.
• Soares Veras, MM., Kairy, D., Rogante, M., Giacomozzi. C. (2015). Outcome measures in tele-rehabilitation and virtual reality for stroke survivors: protocol for a scoping review. Global Journal of Health Science, 8(1): 79-82.
• Mazer, B., Kairy, D., Guindon, A., Girard, M., Swaine, B., Kehayia, A., Labbe, D. (2015). Rehabilitation Living Lab in the Mall: Learning Together to Improve Rehabilitation, Participation and Social Inclusion for People Living with Disabilities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 12(4): 4439-4460.
• Kairy, D., Lehoux, P., Vincent, C. (2014). Exploring routine use of telemedicine through a case study in rehabilitation. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health, Special issue: eHealth in the Region of the Americas 35(5-6): 337-44
• Kairy, D., Tousignant, M., Leclerc, N., Côté, A.-M., Levasseur, M., Tel Age Researchers (2013) The patient’s perspective of in-home telerehabilitation physiotherapy services following total knee arthroplasty. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 10(9): 3998-4011
• Kairy, D., Lehoux, P., Vincent, C., Visintin, M. (2009) A systematic review of clinical outcomes, clinical process, health care utilization and costs associated with telerehabilitation. Disability and Rehabilitation. 31(6): 427-447.

Recent publications in PubMed

Research interests

• Qualitative approaches
• Telerehabilitation
• Knowledge transfer