Workshop on Sex and Gender Considerations in Preparing Health Research Grants
Speaker: Dr. Angela Colantonio
Abstract
Biography
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Dr. Angela Colantonio is the Director of the University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, and a Professor in the department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy where she held a CIHR Research Chair in Gender Work and Health. She is also a Senior Research Scientist at the KITE/Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network. She is affiliated with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and is an Adjunct Scientist at ICES. Dr. Colantonio heads an internationally recognized research program on acquired brain injury, which focuses on women, sex and gender, return-to-work, violence, and marginalized populations (www.abiresearch.utoronto.ca).
She has authored over 270 publications and has presented to over 500 research, clinical and lay audiences. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American College of Epidemiology. She received the 2015 Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation and a Distinguished Member and Women and Rehabilitation Science Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.