Joseph-Omer Dyer, pht, Ph. D.

Education

• B.Sc. Biochemistry, Université de Montréal (1996)
• B.Sc. Physiotherapy, Université de Montréal (1999)
• M.Sc. Biomedical Sciences, Université de Montréal (2002)
• Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, Université de Montréal (2010)
• Postdoctoral Fellow,  Centre d’études et de recherche  en enseignement supérieur (CÉRES), Université de Sherbrooke and Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands) (2011-2012)

Current research projects

• Development of e-learning modules to foster clinical reasoning
• Relationship between spinal pathways impairments and coordination deficits after stroke
• Effects of mechanical vibration on sensorimotor integration after stroke

Selected publications

• Dyer, JO., Hudon, A., Montpetit-Tourangeau, K., Charlin, B., Mamede, S., van Gog, T.: Example-based learning: comparing the effects of additionally providing three different integrative learning activities on physiotherapy intervention knowledge. BMC Med Educ 2015, 15:37.
• Dyer, JO., Maupas, E., de Andrade Melo, S., Bourbonnais, D., Nadeau, S., Forget, R.: Changes in activation timing of knee and ankle extensors during gait are related to changes in heteronymous spinal pathways after stroke. J Neuroeng Rehabil 2014, 11:148.
• Dyer, JO., Maupas E., et al. (2011). Abnormal coactivation of knee and ankle extensors is related to changes in heteronymous spinal pathways after stroke. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation 8: 41.
• Dyer, JO., Maupas, E., de Andrade Melo, S., Bourbonnai,s D., Fleury, J. and Forget, R. Transmission in heteronymous spinal pathways is modified after stroke and related to motor incoordination. PLoS ONE 2009; 4(1): e4123.
• Dyer, JO., Maupas, E., de Andrade Melo, S., Bourbonnais, D. and Forget, R. Changes in intersegmental spinal pathways are related to motor deficits after stroke. Physiother Can. 2010 July; 62(Suppl 1): 45.

Research interests

• Clinical reasoning in physiotherapy
• E-learning
• Changes in spinal mechanisms after central nervous system lesions
• Incoordination in the lower limb after stroke