We love working with Farinaz on our PARCOURS and Inclusive MAP Cycle Lane projects!

An international team including OSOT faculty Dr. Laura Nimmon (CHES), M Lee, and Dr. Tal Jarus (UBC Research-Based Theatre Collaborative), Dr. Ben Mortenson Research postdoc Alfiya Battalova, UBC Accessibility Advisor Dr. Laura Yvonne Bulk, and Terry Krupa (@QueensSRT) published in Advances in Health Sciences Education link.springer.com/article/10.100… #OT365

Latest paper from our lab in collaboration with Abilities Centre & CDPP in Disabilities | Special Issue : Disability and COVID-19 edited by Bill Miller & Dr. Ben Mortenson Research mdpi.com/journal/disabi… 👏 Cameron Gee Femke Hoekstra Joan Úbeda Colomer

Check out these calming, gentle, plot-free videos created to engage people with dementia & other conditions that may make typical media content overwhelming. @UBC_IDEALab is studying the videos' feasibility to promote health for their target audiences! zinniatv.com

“Perception of #autonomy among people who use wheeled #mobility assistive devices: Dependence on the type of wheeled #AssistiveTechnology” by Mahsa Khalili, Chelsea Jonathan, Nicole Hocking, @hfmvdl, Dr. Ben Mortenson Research & Jaimie F. Borisoff. UBC Mechanical Engineering tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interested in helping make #parks more #accessible to visitors with disabilities? The PARCOURS project is looking for volunteers to identify and rank potential standards for natural parks by completing a series of online #surveys. parkaccessforall.ca Dr. Ben Mortenson Research

OSOT Associate Professor Dr. Ben Mortenson Research, postdoctoral fellow Nolwenn Lapierre et al. published on the provision of services to persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Health & Social Care in the Community onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hs… Inclusive MAP Rehab Research Program #OT365

OSOT trainees & faculty Niloufar Benam, Bill Miller, Gordon Tao, Dr. Ben Mortenson Research & Julia Schmidt published in Disabilities on loneliness among older adults and those w/ disabilities after COVID-19 restrictions mdpi.com/2673-7272/3/1/1 Rehab Research Program VCH Research Institute CEDAR Brain Injury Lab #OT365

Congrats to the Granville Lab for receiving an award from the CIHR Institute of Aging given to the institute's highest-ranked grant application! 👏 This grant and award will fund their studies on the role of Granzyme B in triggering aging-related itch. icord.org/icordian-late-…

Meet this year's ICORD Trainee Committee (ITC), as well as our feature of two past ITC members who are now postdoctoral fellows: Drs. Diana Hunter and Raza Malik both spent multiple years as ITC executives while completing their PhDs at ICORD. icord.org/icordian-late-…

At Inclusive MAP we're traveling w/ disabled people as they use cycle lanes (w/ wheeled mobility devices & cycles) in metro Van. They tell us interactions w/cyclists are a concern in several ways. Jon Hernandez/@CBCStephenQuinn we'd love to talk to you about what we're learning!

Proud of our PI Julia Schmidt and Nanaimo #Brain #Injury Society (NBIS) in receiving one of these awards: Extending the Collaboration of Brain Injury Community Associations and Researchers

📕Living through the #Pandemic with a #Disability: A Longitudinal #QualitativeStudy New paper published in Disabilities, ✍️by @_janice_c @Somayyyeh Elham Esfandiari Julia Schmidt Dr. Ben Mortenson Research Bill Miller Free full-text👉mdpi.com/2673-7272/3/3/… UBC OSOT Rehab Research Program ICORD

Celebrating Dr. Ben Mortenson and all of this year's @UBCmedicine 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award recipients! 🥳

We are so proud of Dr. Ben! 🎉

Exploring the social determinants of health from the perspective of people with #SCI: new #Disability studies paper co-authored by Alfiya Battalova Hailey-Thomas Jenkins Habib Chaudhury Ben Mortenson and more! Published in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

Join Badminton Canada at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club on Thursday, July 25 from 3-5 pm to try out this fun and inclusive sport! For more info go to badminton.ca/page/40825/Par…