IODE War Memorial Scholarship Award Recipients for 2022/2023
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Tina Felfeli, University of Toronto
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Dr. Tina Felfeli is a resident physician in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at University of Toronto. She completed her medical school training at University of Toronto where she received the J. P. Boley Prize in Ophthalmology for the highest academic standing in her graduating class. Currently, she is completing a PhD degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto as a part of the Integrated Physician-Scientist program.
Amongst her many achievements, she is a Vanier Scholar, which is awarded by the government of Canada to world-class doctoral students. She has also been awarded the Fighting Blindness Canada Clinician Scientist Emerging Leaders Award. She is the author of the Toronto Guide to Clinical Ophthalmology, which is a textbook used in the ophthalmology curriculum for medical students at University of Toronto. Dr. Felfeli has an impressive research and publication record with several first-authored journal publications. She has also presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. Her research interests include population-based studies, economic evaluations, and prediction models for outcomes of surgical retinal diseases and uveitis, and evaluation of health care delivery within the field of ophthalmology. She combines the words of health services research and biomedical research to better understand patient outcomes. Her methodological expertise is in studies involving health administrative data, decision analysis, machine learning, and inflammatory biomarkers. |
Beverley Larssen, University of British Columbia
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Beverley Larssen received her Bachelor of Human Kinetics in 2011 from the University of British Columbia. She subsequently completed a MSc in Kinesiology (2013) before enrolling in the combined Master of Physical Therapy/PhD in Rehabilitation Science dual-degree program (also at UBC). Beverley studies physical rehabilitation therapies for stroke survivors. Using a neuroimaging approach, her research investigates the mechanisms and neuroanatomy that support motor learning/re-learning after stroke. Specifically, she is evaluating how amplifying movement errors during reaching practice may help recovery of arm motor control. This work has the potential to help identify who may benefit from such interventions.
In her roles as both a physiotherapist and neuroscientist, she continues to engage in knowledge translation both clinically and in research. Her most recent activities include supporting clinical education through the mentorship of physiotherapy students in the UBC Department of Physical Therapy as well as facilitating knowledge translation opportunities for local stroke recovery researchers in her current role as Chair of the BC Stroke Network. |
Siobhan Smith, University of Western Ontario
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Exercise and sport have always been a huge part of Siobhan’s life. Accordingly, she completed her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology at Western University in London Ontario. This degree allowed her to combine her love for science and sport while simultaneously wrestling on the varsity team. The degree taught her the importance of a healthy lifestyle and she developed a strong passion to help others obtain and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Thus, in the final year of her undergraduate degree, she completed research projects in nutrition and sedentary behaviour supervised by Dr. Lemon and Dr. Prapavessis, respectively. After, she completed a master’s of Kinesiology with Dr. Prapavessis where she studied exercise, sedentary behaviour, and smoking. Because of her strong interest in both health and research, she is currently pursuing a combined seven-year MD/PhD program. Her current PhD, under the supervision of Dr. Prapavessis, is investigating ways to reduce sedentary behaviour in order to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes. In her future practice, she sees herself conducting research and providing care in Canada for individuals with chronic lifestyle diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, and helping them achieve healthy sustainable behaviour changes.
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