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.
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Congratulations to #ubcRHSC supervisors & UBC OSOT Professors Tal Jarus and Ben Mortenson on receiving a 2023 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award!

Read about their awards in the FoM announcement: med.ubc.ca/news/2023-facu…
UBC Medicine Dr. Ben Mortenson Research

We are so proud of Dr. Ben! 🎉

📕Living through the #Pandemic with a #Disability : A Longitudinal #QualitativeStudy

New paper published in Disabilities, ✍️by Janice Chan Dr. Somayyeh Mohammadi 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 UBC Medicine 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award recipients! 🥳

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

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 .

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Dr. Ben Mortenson Research

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

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

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-…

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-…

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!

“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, Mike Van der Loos, Dr. Ben Mortenson Research & Jaimie F. Borisoff. UBC Mechanical Engineering
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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

An international team including OSOT faculty Dr. Laura Nimmon (CHES), M Lee, and Dr. Tal Jarus (@UBC_RBT), 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

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

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

It's here! My latest piece for The Tyee was an eye-opening experience, speaking to people with disabilities about their experiences getting around B.C.'s cities with bike, walk and roll networks.

Quick 🧵 on this:

thetyee.ca/News/2022/10/0…