Trainees

Katrina Armstrong 

PhD Student

• • University of Manitoba

  • Member of Spinal Cord Research Center

  • Research Interests: understanding brain and spinal cord mechanisms for the initiation and control of locomotion 

Lindsie Blencowe

PhD Candidate

• • University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Science

  • Clinical Research Coordinator, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – Lyndhurst Centre 

  • Research Interests: Physiology of muscle and bone, changes in muscle and bone metabolism (lifestyle, comorbidities, aging, neurologic impairment), biochemistry (novel biomarkers which can be used to predict fracture risk and inform treatment)

Andre Coleman

MSc student

• • Spinal Cord Research Centre, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

  • Research Interests: Neural spinal mechanisms involved in the development and possible mediation of autonomic dysreflexia in mice after high thoracic spinal cord injury, the involvement of propriospinal neurons in locomotion after spinal cord injury in rats

Olinda Habib Perez 

Post Doctoral Fellow - KITE, Toronto Rehab

• • B.Sc. in Kinesiology at the University of Ottawa 

David Houston

MSc Student, University of Toronto

• • Registered Kinesiologist

Kento Nakagawa 

Postdoctoral Fellow

• • Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - UHN

  • Research Interests: motor control, neuromodulation  

Andrew J Park

Resident Physician PGY-3

• • Graduate of Rush Medical College in Chicago

  • Currently a 3rd year resident at University of Colorado department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

  • Craig Hospital 

  • Research Interests: continuum of chronic SCI care including cardio-metabolic disease, autonomic dysfunction, and clinical practice research focused on implications of telemedicine based care to extend specialist availability

Eleni Patsakos

PhD candidate

• • Applied Health Sciences - Kinesiology, Brock University

  • Research interests: 

Matteo Ponzano

PhD Student

• • Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo 

  • Bone Health and Exercise Science Lab, University of Waterloo

  • Intersectionality & KT Framework Committee, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto