Jeremy McAllister, telerehabilitation project manager
Jeremy McAllister will be working as a project manager on the recently funded telerehab project. Telerehab will offer a clinical placement model for teams of entry-level rehabilitation students (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, audiology / speech-language pathology) through virtual, mentored contact with patients in local, remote, urban and rural areas of British Columbia. This will include both discipline-specific and inter-professional learning, and training for both sides of the mentoring relationship (students and preceptors). Course content will be developed to educate students in the use of telerehabilitation. In addition, Evidence-based telerehabilitation start-up session-kits will be offered to clinical faculty preceptors and their students in the private and public practice setting. This work will be undertaken with community partners, Vancouver Health, Fraser Health, Providence Health, Northern Health and PainBC as well as academic and clinical members of Faculty of Medicine.
Jeremy began his career journey in physiotherapy 22 years ago. He graduated from UBC’s School of Rehabilitation Medicine in 1996. He has worked in the Fraser Valley extensively since that time, primarily in outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy. After 15 years of work, Jeremy began a Masters of Health Administration (MHA) with UBC’s School of Population and Public Health with a desire to impact rehabilitation and medicine more broadly. It was during this time that he developed a strong interest in eHealth and its potential application to physiotherapy in Canada. He received the Malcolm T. McEachern Award for the best MHA graduate research project for his work in this area. Jeremy currently consults to physiotherapy associations on both the national and provincial level to apply eHealth initiatives such as Telehealth and electronic medical records to assure quality and efficiency of rehabilitative care in Canada. Jeremy also continues to work in multidisciplinary clinical management as well as maintain a small amount of orthopadedic clinical work.