Join our info session to learn more about our research-based Master of Science and Doctoral programs in Rehabilitation Sciences (RHSC). Hear from current graduate student and have your questions answered in a Q&A session with the RHSC program director. Register: www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

Congratulations to Ryan Stein, PhD candidate supervised by @teresaliu.bsky.social, who received the Doctoral Personnel Award for Women’s Heart & Brain Health from Heart & Stroke Foundation and the CAN TAP TALENT Doctoral Studentship! rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/11/14/r...

Paper from Dr. Xiaoxu Ding's thesis! Key take aways: Decision makers should support hybrid models, maintain strong in-person care, and expand virtual services to improve accessibility and outcomes for youth. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @foundrybc.bsky.social

"Rewiring the Mind: How Science, Lifestyle and Wellness Shape Brain Health" Seminar from UBC Connects at Robson Square, in partnership with UBC’s Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health RHSC Supervisors Dr. Lara Boyd and Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose presenting RSVP: events.ubc.ca/event/rewiri...

RHSC Internal Scholarship Competition Now Open! UBC Rehabilitation Sciences students are invited to apply for 3 Alumni Scholarships and 2 Arthritis Society Scholarships. Deadline: October 17 at 12pm. Eligibility criteria & application instructions under each award rehab.med.ubc.ca/awards-and-f...

Hey RHSC students and faculty! You're all invited to our annual RHSC BBQ organized by our student executive RSEC! Welcome in the new academic year, catch up with friends and meet new faces! Food + drinks on us! Thursday September 11, starting at 2:30pm RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/annual-rhs...

Congrats to Vivian Li, MSc student in @lboyd47.bsky.social Brain Behaviour Lab, on receiving a DMCBH Rising Star Trainee Award! The award supports Vivian in her research using TCMS for motor recovery after stroke: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/08/21/v...

Associate Professor Dr. Brodie Sakakibara is the Principal Investigator on a newly funded CIHR Project Grant, which will support a study of self-management for stroke after discharge from the hospital led by @ubcrhsc.bsky.social postdoctoral fellow Dr. Elise Wiley osot.ubc.ca/2025/07/30/e... #OT365

Looking for another elective course for Fall 2025? Consider RHSC 506E Current Topics in Rehabilitation: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence for RHSC www.courses.students.ubc.ca/browse-cours... 1-credit course gives an intro to basics of AI focusing on its emerging applications in Rehab Sciences

Looking for another elective course for Fall 2025? Consider RHSC 521: Rehabilitation Technology: Theory & Practice www.courses.students.ubc.ca/browse-cours... Explore different technology models, and theories and approaches to assistive and rehabilitation technology design and development

Calling all RHSC students and faculty! Come join your Student Executive Council for a fun filled afternoon at the beach! Thursday July 31st at 5pm Kits Beach - grassy area by Cornwall

New paper out today. The Occupation of Youth Peer Support Workers Within an Integrated Youth Services Initiative. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @UBCOSOT @Foundrybc @HealthCanada3 #occupation #peersupport

ICYMI: Professor Emerita Dr. Catherine Backman's discussion with Cheryl Koehn, the Founder and President of @acejointhealth.bsky.social, covers the importance of finding the right splints and assisted devices for managing arthritis arthritisathome.jointhealth.org?p=6389 #ArthritisAtHome #OT365

Congratulations to Avneet Dhillon, Janna Griffioen, and @astouthiambc.bsky.social our 2025 CGS-D Recipients! The CGSD are awarded to high-calibre Doctoral level scholars to help develop their research skills and assists in the training of highly qualified personnel. rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/07/18/2...

Have you had an ACL tear/reconstruction and frustrated with your knee? UBC_PT @arthritisresearch.bsky.social researchers are recruiting for a clinical trial to evaluate exercise-program that boosts knee health and reduce osteoarthritis risk Click on the link bit.ly/ACLRScreen for more information

Join us Wednesday, Aug 13 for our IDEA Lab Research Day & Indigenous VR Storytelling Exhibit at the Paetzold Theatre (Vancouver General Hospital)! @nurselillian.bsky.social @agingsmart.bsky.social @vchhealthcare.bsky.social Free event with lunch provided—RSVP now:

@ubcrhsc.bsky.social student Avneet Dhillon, OSOT faculty Dr. Suzanne Huot & @skyebarbic.bsky.social, and colleagues from @foundrybc.bsky.social & @sfu-fhs.bsky.social examine the use of integrated youth services by demographic in BC in Can. J. Psychiatry: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OT365

Welcome to RHSC's newest graduate student supervisor! @ubcpt.bsky.social new Assistant Professor Dr. Stephen Wright is an exercise and circulatory physiologist and joins the RHSC graduate programs as supervisor. Meet Dr. Wright on our website: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/06/20/w... #rehabscience

DMCBH member Dr. Lara Boyd (@lboyd47.bsky.social) has created a video game to help with stroke recovery. “Our hope is to gamify rehabilitation, creating an enjoyable experience for patients that will extend the exercises that they perform in structured therapy to regain limb functionality.”

Thrilled to celebrate 8 new grads from our graduate program in Rehabilitation Sciences - Congrats! @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @ubcpt.bsky.social @ubcosot.bsky.social

Congratulations to our May 2025 Graduates! Anne-Cecile Delaisse, Xiaoxu Ding, Justin Losciale, & Kip Squier received their doctorates today, and Keyara Brody, Victoria Cirone, Olatioluwase Olatona and Makenzie McCallum received thier MSc degrees. Full article: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/05/21/c...

@ubcrhsc.bsky.social student Brittany Pousett came second in the INCREASE BC 3MT competition for her talk “Understanding how People with Lower Limb Amputations in British Columbia Cope with the Challenges Associated with Life with an Amputation” #OT365 @matterslab.bsky.social @agingsmart.bsky.social

Meet Daniel Elesin, our May Student of the Month! Daniel is an MSc candidate completing research with Dr. @teresaliu.bsky.social exploring how exercise and cognitive enrichment affect executive functions in older adults with chronic stroke. Full article: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/04/25/m...

Meet Stanley Hung, our May 2025 Alumni of the Month! Stanley completed our MSc in 2014. Combining clinical and research, Stanley is now a registered physiotherapist & Postdoctoral Fellow conducting implementation science research for people living with stroke. rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/04/25/m...

INCREASE BC will feature 14 presentations by @ubcrhsc.bsky.social trainees supervised by OSOT faculty, and Assistant Professor Dr. Julia Schmidt will jointly lead a panel discussion on patient & community partners tomorrow www.rehabresearchprogram.com/3rd-increase... #OT365 @bcchresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the 4YF! The 4YF is awarded to new Doctoral students in recognition of their academic excellence and will fund their research for 4 years. Congrats to Jacob, Avneet, Chris, Vrinda, Karen and Nejat (not pictured)! rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/04/24/2...

Avneet Dhillon, a @ubcrhsc.bsky.social student supervised by @skyebarbic.bsky.social, shared her experience of co-chairing the 7th International Conference on Youth Mental Health osot.ubc.ca/2025/04/07/i... #OT365 @advancinghealth.bsky.social @foundrybc.bsky.social

Congratulations to Xiaoxu Ding, who recently graduated from @ubcrhsc.bsky.social under Associate Professor @skyebarbic.bsky.social's supervision! #OT365

Meet Astou Thiam our April 2025 Student of the Month! Astou is a PhD student with Dr. Suzanne Huot studying the experiences of West and Central African immigrants in Metro Vancouver through a hospitality lens. Read the full feature here: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/04/02/a... @ubcosot.bsky.social

Meet Sue Peters, our April 2025 Alumni of the Month! Sue completed her PhD in 2018 focusing on neurophysiological mechanisms of movement preparation in the brain and muscle in older adults and people after stroke. Read full feature: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/04/02/a...

Considering grad school and wondering how to select a supervisor? Visit Rehab Sciences Student Executive's blog post for tips on "Searching for a Supervisor" by MSc candidate Sabrina Cao @kristincampbell.bsky.social #ubcgrad #rehabsciences med-fom-rehab.sites.olt.ubc.ca?p=6967&previ...

Learning a new movement with your arm relies on learning to move your eyes! Check out our new paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @drrubino.bsky.social @jandrushko.bsky.social @ubcosot.bsky.social 🧪

📣Your Voice Matters! Help Improve Graduate Student Life and Win 🤩 Deadline extended to March 28. Surveys in your inbox. Submit your feedback and be entered into a draw to win a $250 gift card! The Cdn Grad & Professional Student Survey is the most powerful way to improve the grad student experience

OSOT Department Head @ben-vanmortenson.bsky.social and @ubcrhsc.bsky.social student Dr. Farrukh Chishtie have been awarded a second year of funding through UBC's Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund to integrate climate change and sustainability into OT curricula tlef.ubc.ca/funded-propo... #OT365

Excited to share a paper published in the Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology Journal. This paper explores the various obstacles faced by manual wheelchair users. Check it out here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39754707/ #researchsky #occupationaltherapy

Apply for the Bill McLennan Research Award, which supports student research into Indigenous Northwest Coast art, culture, history or technologies. Open to UBC undergraduate or graduate students in any discipline. Deadline: March 25. https://f.mtr.cool/loajakqjxo

@ubcrhsc.bsky.social PhD student Avneet Dhillon is the youth co-Chair for the 7th International Conference on Youth Mental Health, which will be held in Vancouver from March 18-21 iaymh2025.org #IAYMH2025 #OT365 @foundrybc.bsky.social @camhnews.bsky.social @advancinghealth.bsky.social

An article by @ubcrhsc.bsky.social PhD student Pegah Derakhshan, OSOT faculty @matterslab.bsky.social and @ben-vanmortenson.bsky.social, et al. was featured in Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences' Research Topic for World Health Day www.frontiersin.org/journals/reh... #OT365 @agingsmart.bsky.social

A recent article in Research in Autism by @ubcrhsc.bsky.social PhD student Melika Kangarani-Farahani and OSOT Professor Dr. Jill Zwicker shows that CO-OP augments functional connectivity in the brains of children with ASD and DCD www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OT365 @bcchresearch.bsky.social

This week, connect with ASNR Member @lboyd47.bsky.social! Dr. Boyd is a neuroscientist & physical therapist at UBC who has conducted extensive research mapping how behaviors, environments, and experiences affect brain health and learning. #FollowFriday @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca 👩‍🔬 🧠🔄 🧠📈 🧪

ICYMI: Professor Dr. Susan Forwell has been appointed @ubcmedicine.bsky.social's Associate Dean pro tem in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. Her leadership in this role will support the Faculty's graduate and postdoctoral programs. mednet.med.ubc.ca/announcement... #OT365 @ubcrhsc.bsky.social

Meet Stacey Miller our March 2025 Student of the Month! Stacey is a physiotherapist and part-time PhD student researching how to classify motor function in children with motor impairments. Full feature: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/02/28/m... @ubcosot.bsky.social #ubcrhsc #rehabscience

Meet Debbie Field, our March 2025 Alumni of the Month! Debbie completed her PhD in 2016 focusing on how youth using wheeled mobility devices participate in everyday life & is now an OT educator Full feature: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/02/28/m... #ubcrhsc @ubcosot.bsky.social @matterslab.bsky.social

A new publication by OSOT faculty @ben-vanmortenson.bsky.social & Dr. Bill Miller and colleagues investigates how behaviour change techniques affect the delivery of yoga to people with five neurological conditions www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @matterslab.bsky.social @ubcrhsc.bsky.social #OT365

Spotlight on RHSC Faculty: Suzanne Huot, PhD Suzanne studies international migration, focusing mainly on the experiences of voluntary and forced migrants settling in communities across Canada. Suzanne is recruiting MSc & PhD students! Read the full feature: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/02/14/s...

Meet Makenzie McCallum our February 2025 Student of the Month! Makenzie is an MSc student and Centre-UBC Thunderbirds Women's Hockey team doing research on concussion awareness in Indigenous ice hockey players. Read Makenzie's full feature on the RHSC website: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/01/31/f...

Meet Amy Kirkham, our February 2025 Alumni of the Month! Amy graduated in 2016 with a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences. Amy focused on exercise cardioprotection from chemotherapy for women with early staged breast cancer. Full article: rehab.med.ubc.ca/2025/01/31/f... #ubcrhsc @ubcpt.bsky.social

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Naznin Virji-Babul, RHSC Supervisor and PT Associate Professor, on being appointed Director, Interdisciplinary Research in the Office of the Vice-President Health, UBC Health! > Meet the Naz and the UBC Health Leadership Team: health.ubc.ca/what-ubc-hea...

SAVE THE DATE - Just Say It! A half-day event for RHSC students to practice to 'just say' their conference oral, poster or 3MT presentation. RHSC Faculty are encouraged to attend and give your students constructive feedback. April 9, 9am-12pm VGH Room TBA Snacks and lunch provided