Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice, UBC

maureen.ashe@exchange.ubc.ca

Dr. Maureen Ashe is an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Family Practice and a physiotherapist. She is a CIHR New Investigator and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. Her research focuses on characterizing the mobility-disability continuum for vulnerable older adults and developing and testing interventions to encourage older adults' participation through physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour.  Recently she has extended this to include the role of the built environment on older adults’ community participation and health outcomes.

Assistant Professor, Department of Rheumatology, UBC

azubieta@arthritisresearch.ca
Dr. Antonio Avina-Zubieta is an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Medicine within the Division of Rheumatology. After pursuing his Doctoral Degree under the supervision of Drs. John Esdaile and Diane Lacaille he has been granted a Network Scholar research training award from the Canadian Arthritis Network and The Arthritis Society to start a career as a new investigator. His research interests include the current epidemiology and burden of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDS).

Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, UBC

catherine.backman@ubc.ca

Dr. Catherine Backman is Professor & Head, UBC Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy. She is also an investigator with the Arthritis Research Centre and Affiliated Researcher for the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Her research focuses on the impact of arthritis on participation in life roles, such as parenting and employment; as well as measuring occupational performance and underlying performance components such as hand function. Research  interests include evaluating the effect of rehabilitation interventions on people’s ability to engage in their daily activities. Most of Dr. Backman’s research involves the participation of people living with arthritis, but studies have included a diverse population including  those living with spinal cord injury, mental illness, and infants with motor delays.

Dr. Catherine Backman's Affiliations:
Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Arthritis Research Centre of Canada

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UBC

jcibere@arthritisresearch.ca

Dr. Cibere is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and Research Scientist at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada. Her research is focused on the longitudinal evaluation of early knee and hip osteoarthritis. Dr. Cibere pioneered a study on the efficacy of glucosamine sulfate in osteoarthritis. The 24-week study involving 137 subjects in four Canadian centres, all of who were using  glucosamine at the start of the study, found no evidence of benefit from continued use of glucosamine. She uses magnetic resonance imaging, biomarkers and clinical assessments to develop tools for early diagnosis and to predict osteoarthritis progression. Her research  has led to the development of a standardized knee exam which has become a part of standard clinical practice.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC

cripton@mech.ubc.ca

Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

clive.duncan@vch.ca

Department of Medicine, UBC
Arthur JE Child Chair in Rheumatology Research &,
Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology

jesdaile@arthritisresearch.ca

Dr. John Esdaile's Biography: Arthritis Research Centre of Canada

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

garbuz@shaw.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

gilbartmk@yahoo.ca

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU

charles_goldsmith@sfu.ca
Dr. Charles Goldsmith is a Professor in the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences and is the Maureen and Milan Ilick/Merck Chair in Statistics  for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases. His research involvement focuses on studies related to musculoskeletal and surgical  conditions. Dr. Goldsmith's research interests also lie within the field of Statistical Methodology related to the evaluation of therapies involved in musculoskeletal conditions. In specific: rheumatology, physical therapy, chiropractic and surgery. He is also interested in developing research methodologies for carrying studied of quality-of-life in those who use pharmaceutical products, improving the current standards of research processes and understanding of graphical communications.

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

ngreidanus@shaw.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

pierre.guy@ubc.ca

Dr. Pierre Guy is Associate Professor and clinician-scientist, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC. His medical training and residency were completed at McGill University, followed by orthopaedic trauma fellowships in Hannover and Berlin, Germany and UBC. Dr. Guy also holds a Master’s degree (MBA) from the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. Dr. Guy’s research is focused on hip fracture prevention, treatment and long term function. He is renowned for evaluating the mechanism of hip fractures and imaging of the proximal femur using novel techniques for his work in clinical trials and with administrative databases. His interdisciplinary team includes graduate students, clinical-residents, mechanical and materials engineers, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians.

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

hartd@ucalgary.ca

Professor David Hart, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, was formerly Head of Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He received his doctorate in Biochemistry from Michigan State University and went on to complete his postdoctoral training in immunology at the University of Illinois Medical Centre. He then joined the faculty at the University of Texas HSC at Dallas as an Assistant Professor. After promotion to Associate Professor, he became the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Immunology Program from its inception until 1983. In 1983, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary as Chairman of the Immunology Research Group. He was subsequently a founding member of the Joint Injury and Arthritis Research Group, and served as Chair of this group for three years. Professor Hart was actively involved in raising funds from the private sector that resulted in the establishment of the multidisciplinary McCaig Centre for Joint Injury and Arthritis Research at the University of Calgary, and is currently the Interim Director of what is now the McCaig Institute for Bone & Joint Health.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC

ahodgson@mech.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UBC

choppmann@psych.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

michael.hunt@ubc.ca

Dr. Michael A. Hunt is a clinical biomechanist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia. As a physiotherapist trained in fundamental biomechanics, the focus of Dr. Hunt’s work is to understand the biomechanical risk factors and consequences of injury and disease. The goal of his work is to develop targeted treatment approaches based on the unique characteristics of a given injury, resulting in improved physical function and quality of life.

Dr. Hunt's Lab: MabLab

Professor, Department of Family Practice, UBC

karim.khan@ubc.ca
Dr. Karim Khan is Professor and clinician-scientist, Department of Family Practice, UBC. Dr. Khan has achieved international recognition for studies promoting greater mobility among vulnerable seniors. In a medical community that often focuses on pharmaceutical therapies, Dr. Khan has consistently reported the large benefit of physical activity for public health. He has published extensively, including those in high impact journals such as the British Medical Journal, where he also serves on the international editorial board. Dr. Khan is also the Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, a leading international journal that focuses on the role of physical activity for health. Reflecting his contribution to knowledge translation, he is coauthor of the  leading medical monograph for clinicians, Brukner and Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine (4th Edition, McGraw-Hill).

Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

jacek.kopec@ubc.ca

Dr. Jacek Kopec is Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC, and a research scientist at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada. Dr. Kopec was recognized as a National Health Research Scholar and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Senior Scholar. Dr. Kopec’s major research area is the epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases, especially osteoarthritis and chronic pain. He is also an international authority on health outcomes research and quality of life (QoL) measurement; an interactive QoL instrument called CAT-5D-QOL was recently developed by his team. Dr. Kopec has led international teams in health outcomes, osteoarthritis, and health modeling research.

Associate Professor, Department of Rheumatology, UBC

dlacaille@arthritisresearch.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

lli@arthritisresearch.ca

Dr. Linda Li is Assistant Professor and Harold Robinson Arthritis Society Chair in Arthritic Diseases, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC. Dr. Li is also a research scientist at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada and an affiliated investigator at the Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit (ACREU) in Ontario. In addition to being a trained physiotherapist, Dr. Li received a PhD in clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto, followed by a fellowship in clinical epidemiology/knowledge translation at the Ottawa Health Research Institute. Her research interests include models of care in the management of arthritis, the help-seeking process in people with early rheumatoid arthritis, and developing a web-based aid to promote shared decision-making in arthritis care.

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy

Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose
teresa.ambrose@ubc.ca

Research Director, Falls Prevention Clinic
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

Dr. Liu-Ambrose’s research laboratory, The Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Function Lab, focuses on defining the role of exercise to promote healthy aging and prevent cognitive and functional decline among seniors.

Currently, she is conducting two randomized controlled trials among seniors at risk for dementia to determine the effect of exercise on cognitive performance, brain function as measured by functional MRI, and physical function.

Dr. Liu-Ambrose works collaboratively with faculty in Psychology, Family Practice, Geriatric Medicine, and Health Care and Epidemiology.

Dr. Liu-Ambrose is an investigator with the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility and the Brain Research Centre. Her areas of methodological expertise include randomized controlled trials, exercise prescription for seniors, falls prevention, and neuropsychological assessments.

For more information on The Aging, Mobility and Cognitive Function Lab, please visit their website at http://cogmob.rehab.med.ubc.ca.

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

heather.macdonald@ubc.ca

Dr. Heather Macdonald is Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Orthopaedics. Her research interests include children's bone health with particular focus on how physical activity affects bone growth and development during childhood and adolescence in healthy and clinical populations. As well, Dr. Macdonald is interested in how novel three-dimensional imaging tools can be used to measure detailed aspects of bone quality in the growing skeleton, and how bone adapts to physical activity. Currently, Dr. Macdonald is working on three projects: 1) Bone Microstructure, Risk-taking Behaviour and Forearm Fractures in Boys and Girls; 2) Linking Exercise, Activity and Pathophysiology in Juvenile Arthritis (The LEAP study) and 3) The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) – Bone Quality Study.

Dr. Macdonald's Profile: Child & Family Research Institute

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, SFU

dmackey@sfu.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC

carlo.marra@ubc.ca

Professor, Institute of Aging, UBC

amm@interchange.ubc.ca

Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews is a Professor in the UBC Department of Sociology and has recently completed two terms as the Scientific Director of the Institute of Aging; one of 13 national institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Martin-Matthews' research interests include aging and health behaviours, social support, care and caregiving, home-based health care, population aging and widowhood. Alongside her extensive contributions to the University of British Columbia and Institute for Aging, she has numerous publications including books, journals, and over 150 research papers and is affiliated with many centres both nationally and internationally.

Professor & Head, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

bas.masri@vch.ca

Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Family Practice, UBC
Director, Centre for Hip Health and Mobility

heather.mckay@ubc.ca

Professor Heather McKay, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, is in the Departments of Orthopaedics and Family Practice. She is an internationally-recognized leader in childhood and older adult bone health research. Her national recognition includes awards from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Senior Scholar) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Knowledge Translation). She has published extensively in scientific journals related to the positive role of exercise and other lifestyle factors on child and older adult health. Her talent for “moving research into action” – performing research that has impact – is illustrated by her lead role in the development and implementation of Action Schools! BC. This whole school of physical activity and healthy eating model engages almost half a million children in BC. The outcomes of her school-based research influenced the development of new policy related to daily physical activity in schools.  Professor McKay plays a critical leadership role in both the overall operations of CHHM and its research programs.

Dr. Heather McKay's Biography: Department of Orthopaedics, UBC; Department of Family Practice, UBC

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

kmulpuri@cw.bc.ca

Professor, Department of Physical Education, University of Victoria

rhodes@uvic.ca

Dr. Rhodes' primary research and teaching area is focused on the psychology of physical activity and sedentary behaviour.  He is the director of the Behavioural Medicine (BMED) lab within the School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education at the University of Victoria, Canada. For more information about Dr. Rhodes and the complete profile of his research, visit http://bmed.uvic.ca/

Professor, School of Kinesiology, SFU

stever@sfu.ca

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, UBC

alex.scott@ubc.ca

Dr. Alex Scott is currently host to the Second International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium taking place in September, 2012 in addition to serving as Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Physical Therapy. His research aims to provide insight on the injuries involving the overuse of joints as well as chronically painful tendon disorders experienced by workers and athletes. Dr. Scott actively pursues and maintains many international collaborations with Oslo University, Umeå University, Indiana University, Australian National University and University of Paris resulting many international publications. His research has been highlighted and supported locally by WorkSafeBC, Physiotherapy Association of BC and the Health Sciences Association. In additional to local support, Dr. Scott receives support provincially through Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Scholar Award 2011-2018), nationally through CIHR and CFI, along with international sponsorship by the Canada-Scandinavia Foundation and the Swedish Research Council.

Clinical Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Senior Advisor on Fall and Injury Prevention, BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit and the Ministry of Health
Director, Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging (CEMFIA)

vicky.scott@gov.bc.ca

Dr. Vicky Scott is the Senior Advisor on Fall and Injury Prevention for the province of British Columbia with the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit and the Ministry of Health.  Her academic appointment is with the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine as a Clinical Associate Professor with the School of Population and Public Health.  She is Director of the Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging (CEMFIA) at the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility; Chair of the BC Fall and Injury Prevention Coalition; Principal Investigator for the Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum; and co-lead on a new project on healthy aging and fall prevention among older Aboriginal people.

Dr. Scott's Affiliations: Ministry of Health: Fall Prevention/Staying Independent

joanie.sims-gould@hiphealth.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, UBC

rzwang@mail.ubc.ca

Dr. Rizhi Wang is Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Engineering, UBC, and Associate, Department of  orthopaedics, UBC. Dr. Wang’s experience spans academic positions at Tsinghua University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, University of Minnesota, and Princeton. Dr. Wang is well known for his research on material-related issues around hip  replacement, his expertise in implant processing and fracture mechanics. Dr. Wang’s research interests include orthopaedic implants, drug delivery biomaterials, anti-infection solutions, bone/implant fixation, and bone structure and mechanics. Dr. Wang currently serves on the Board for the Canadian Biomaterials Society.

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC

dawilson@interchange.ubc.ca

Dr. David Wilson is Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC. He received his D. Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford for work on the 3-dimensional kinematics of the knee, followed by a fellowship in orthopaedic biomechanics. His research interests include sports medicine, joint reconstruction/ replacement, and medical imaging. Dr. Wilson is renowned for his research on the links between joint mechanics, clinical symptoms, and the success of orthopaedic procedures. His team has expertise in non-invasive assessments of cartilage health, including the use of emerging MRI techniques, such as delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC), to detect changes in osteoarthritic joints much earlier than conventionally possible.  Dr. Wilson was awarded a Canadian Arthritis Network New Investigator award.

meghan.winters@hiphealth.ca