Faculty profile
Benjamin Ritsma
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Research
Latest papers
Differentiating upper- and lower motor neuron diseases using automated acoustic analysis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration · 2025
Enteral tube feeding for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
Exploring virtual care clinical experience from non-physician healthcare providers (VCAPE).
SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2023
Latest funding
- $100,000
Co-Creating a VR-Enabled Cable-Trip System for Reactive Balance Training in Routine Care
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $250,000
Digital neurologic assessment: An AI solution for development of remote cranial nerve examination
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Differentiating upper- and lower motor neuron diseases using automated acoustic analysis
Truong J, Simmatis L, Pommée T, Abrahao A, Adams K, Chum M, O’Connell C, Genge A, Kalra S, Ritsma B
Enteral tube feeding for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease.
Sulistyo A, Abrahao A, Freitas ME, Ritsma B, Zinman L
Exploring virtual care clinical experience from non-physician healthcare providers (VCAPE).
Braund H, Dalgarno N, Ritsma B, Appireddy R
Patient Perceptions on the Virtual Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Clinic during COVID-19.
Chan-Nguyen S, Karacam M, Ritsma B, Appireddy R
Impairments in Cognitive Control Using a Reverse Visually Guided Reaching Task Following Stroke.
Lowrey CR, Dukelow SP, Bagg SD, Ritsma B, Scott SH
Virtual Care Access and Health Equity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a qualitative study of patients with chronic diseases from Canada.
Chan-Nguyen S, Ritsma B, Nguyen L, Srivastava S, Shukla G, Appireddy R
Genetic testing for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Canada – an assessment of current practices
Salmon K, Anoja N, Breiner A, Chum M, Dionne A, Dupré N, Fiander A, Fok D, Ghavanini A, Gosselin S
Optimizing the Timing of Peripheral Nerve Transfers for Functional Re-Animation in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Conceptual Framework.
Castanov V, Berger M, Ritsma B, Trier J, Hendry JM
Co-Creating a VR-Enabled Cable-Trip System for Reactive Balance Training in Routine Care
Principal investigators: Amiri, Pouya; Pan, Matthew K; Ritsma, Benjamin; Wong, Henry
Keywords: Balance Perturbation; Cable-Trip System; Fall Prevention; Reactive Balance Training; Virtual Reality
Digital neurologic assessment: An AI solution for development of remote cranial nerve examination
Principal investigators: Yunusova, Yana
Keywords: Neurological disorders; Digital assessment; Telehealth; Validation; Image analysis; Artificial intelligence; Neural networks
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Medicine
- School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Medicine/Neurology
- Department of Speech-Language Pathology
Co-authors at Queen's University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Ramana Appireddy
Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Marvin Chum
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Sanjay Kalra
Medicine/Neurology
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Angela Genge
Neurology and Neurosurgery
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Yana Yunusova
Department of Speech-Language Pathology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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