Headlines 2012

Goodbye and good luck, Dr. Brenda Loveridge

Dr. Loveridge has been a physiotherapist for over 40 years…

Alex Scott funded for study of patellar tendinopathy

The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine has awarded Dr. Alex Scott and his team a grant to study…

Official Opening of the UNBC Physiotherapy Plinth Lab

Plinth lab at UNBC held its official opening…

Tendinopathy Toolkit extends its reach

The Tendinopathy Toolkit (click to visit the toolkit), developed as a resource for treatment of Achilles tendinopathy, continues to expand its influence! Currently, the Toolkit is available on this site, the PABC site as well as the Physiopedia website http://www.physio-pedia.com/Achilles_Tendinopathy_Toolkit – an internationally accessible website for physiotherapy related resources. Since being loaded onto these sites […]

Research by Dr. Susan Harris highlighted by CIHR

Professor Emeritus, Susan Harris, along with other Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy faculty members as well as clinicians and people with osteoporosis partnered to elucidate the role of exercise in the rehabilitation process for osteoporotic patients who have suffered a fracture.  The team published two articles in 2011 and in 2012 one of these articles was […]

Kristin Campbell talks about exercise and prostate cancer in the National Post

In a National Post special supplement for prostate cancer awareness month (Movember) Dr. Kristin Campbell contributed an article on exercise in prostate cancer.   National Post special supplement exercise article Nov 2012

MPT students present at the 2012 American College of Rheumatology Meeting

April Leung and Katie MacPherson delivered podium presentations at the largest meeting in the world for arthritis research. Read more…

Graduate student, Sarah Neil investigates cancer related fatigue

Graduate student Sarah Neil along with Department of Physical Therapy faculty members…

Ramsey Ezzat Department of Physical Threrapy Clinical Educator 2012

Student nominated physical therapy clinical educator 2012

Alex Scott's International tendonopathy symposium in the VCH news

VCH News recently highlighted the 2nd International Scientific Tendon Symposium, led by Dr. Scott. The Symposium…

Assistant Professor Teresa Liu-Ambrose named a Canada Research Chair

Teresa Liu-Ambrose was one of 13 Canada Research Chairs (CRC) who were appointed…

Research trainee, Cameron Mang receives the Mary Adele Norman Graduate Award in Medical Research

                                                                 A scholarship endowed by Mary Adele Norman for graduate students doing medical research was awarded this year to MSc student, Cameron Mang.  Cameron is supervised by Dr. Lara Boyd.  This award is administered by the Faculty of Medicine and is not the first to be won by a research trainee in the Brain […]

ANSWER goes live on World Arthritis Day

Today is World Arthritis Day and to mark the occasion, The Arthritis Society has announced two new initiatives that will help the 4.6 million Canadians living with the disease. A new ANSWER tool has gone live on the Arthritis Society website. The tool is designed to help individuals living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to determine […]

Dr. Linda Li's research on using digital tools to help arthritis sufferers is highlighted by CIHR

Dr. Linda Li is leading a team of health psychologists, web-based program designers and consumers in the development…

Attend Café Scientifique,‘Wired Café: Arthritis Management in a Digital World’ Oct 16th.

Sponsored by the Department, ‘Wired Café: Arthritis Management in a Digital World’ …

Dr. Michael Hunt quoted in Arthritis Today

Dr. Michael Hunt and others are exploring movement re-training…

PhD student, Sue Peters awarded a CIHR Doctoral Scholarship

Sue Peters started her training this fall…

Marc Rizzardo contributes to articles regarding Olympics

Clinical Assistant Professor, Marc Rizzardo…

MPT student to present at international arthritis conference.

Graduating Master of Physical Therapy student, April Leung…

Targeting tendinopathy

Research of the Tendinopathy Research Group, led by Dr. Alex Scott was featured…

UBC PT clinical faculty members among the first to be certified specialists

Several of our clinical faculty members and department partners were among the first to receive specialist certification…

The UBC Department of Physical Therapy welcomes Dr. Jordan Guenette appointed Assistant Professor

Dr. Guenette received his Bachelors, Masters and PhD from UBC Human Kinetics…

For those with arthritis Dr. Linda Li has an ANSWER

Associate Professor Linda Li’s work was highlighted by Government…

Post doctoral trainee, Marie Westby awarded a CIHR Research Award and the Elizabeth Dickens KT Prize

Dr. Marie Westby has been awarded a CIHR Post-doctoral Research Award, and the Elizabeth Dickens KT Prize…

Dr. Kristin Campbell's research on "Chemobrain" featured on CBC

Dr. Kristin Campbell is leading a study investigating the effects of exercise on ‘chemobrain’…