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Deirdre Dawson

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Professor Emeritus/EmeritaDepartment of Occupational Science and Occupational TherapyUniversity of Toronto

Deirdre Dawson

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Supervision signals

Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2023.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 CIHR), most recently in 2016.
Supervised 4 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2022.

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Publications

308

Citations

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Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Education

PhD, Brain and Behaviour, Psychology
MSc, Epidemiology, Pulic Health Sciences
BSR, Rehabilitation

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Rehabilitation medicine Rehabilitation medicine, n.e.c.Neurosciences, medical and health and physiological aspects, n.e.c.

Latest papers

Potential of using an assistive technology to address meal preparation difficulties following acquired brain injury: clients’ and caregivers’ perspectives
Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology · 2023
Potential advantages, barriers, and facilitators of implementing a cognitive orthosis for cooking for individuals with traumatic brain injury: the healthcare providers’ perspective
Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology · 2022
Treating Heel Pain in Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Hard vs Modified Soft Custom Orthotics and Heel Pads
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · 2021

All 19 publications

Latest funding

Developing a mobile technology-based intervention for stroke self-management support: A user-centred design approach
CIHR · 2022 · Supervisor
Preventing cognitive and functional decline among seniors at risk: A community-based randomized controlled trial.
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$1,191,091
The IDEAS Network: enabling people with invisible disabilities to enter, return to, and stay in the workforce
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$49,968

All 20 grants and awards

19 publications.

Potential of using an assistive technology to address meal preparation difficulties following acquired brain injury: clients’ and caregivers’ perspectives

Zarshenas S, Gagnon-Roy M, Couture M, Bier N, Giroux S, Nalder E, Pigot H, Dawson D, Poncet F, LeDorze G

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology202319 citations

DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2020.1867244

Potential advantages, barriers, and facilitators of implementing a cognitive orthosis for cooking for individuals with traumatic brain injury: the healthcare providers’ perspective

Zarshenas S, Couture M, Bier N, Giroux S, Pigot H, Dawson D, Nalder E, Gagnon-Roy M, Le Dorze G, Poncet F

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology202215 citations

DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2020.1833093

Treating Heel Pain in Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Hard vs Modified Soft Custom Orthotics and Heel Pads

Seligman DAR, Dawson D, Streiner DL, Seligman DJ, Davis A

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation20218 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2020.10.124

The validity, reliability and clinical utility of a performance-based executive function assessment in people with mild to moderate dementia.

Lai FH, Dawson D, Yan EW, Ho EC, Tsui JW, Fan SH, Lee AT

Aging & mental health2020

DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2019.1599818 PMID: 30990085

Change in some quality of life domains mimics change in tremor severity after ultrasound thalamotomy.

Scantlebury N, Meng Y, Lipsman N, Jain J, Dawson D, Schwartz ML

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2019

DOI: 10.1002/mds.27774 PMID: 31234223

Feasibility and Effects of the CO-OP Approach™ in Postconcussion Rehabilitation.

Hunt AW, Paniccia M, Mah K, Dawson D, Reed N

The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association2019

DOI: 10.5014/ajot.2019.027995 PMID: 30839261

Feasibility of online self-administered cognitive training in moderate-severe brain injury.

Sharma B, Tomaszczyk JC, Dawson D, Turner GR, Colella B, Green REA

Disability and rehabilitation2017

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2016.1195453 PMID: 27414703

Stroke rehabilitation and patients with multimorbidity: a scoping review protocol.

Nelson MLA, Kelloway L, Dawson D, McClure JA, McKellar KA, Menon A, Munce S, Ronald K, Teasell R, Wasdell M, Lyons RF

Journal of comorbidity2015

DOI: 10.15256/joc.2015.5.47 PMID: 29090155

A multi-faceted knowledge translation approach to support persons with stroke and cognitive impairment: evaluation protocol.

McEwen SE, Donald M, Dawson D, Egan MY, Hunt A, Quant S, Runions S, Linkewich E

Implementation science : IS2015

DOI: 10.1186/s13012-015-0346-6 PMID: 26542936

Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations: Mood, Cognition and Fatigue following Stroke Practice Guidelines, Update 2015

Eskes GA, Lanctôt KL, Herrmann N, Lindsay P, Bayley M, Bouvier L, Dawson D, Egi S, Gilchrist E, Green T

International Journal of Stroke2015100 citations

DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12557

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Deirdre Dawson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Potential of using an assistive technology to address meal preparation difficulties following acquired brain injury: clients’ and caregivers’ perspectives

Potential advantages, barriers, and facilitators of implementing a cognitive orthosis for cooking for individuals with traumatic brain injury: the healthcare providers’ perspective

Treating Heel Pain in Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Hard vs Modified Soft Custom Orthotics and Heel Pads

The validity, reliability and clinical utility of a performance-based executive function assessment in people with mild to moderate dementia.

Change in some quality of life domains mimics change in tremor severity after ultrasound thalamotomy.

Feasibility and Effects of the CO-OP Approach&#x2122; in Postconcussion Rehabilitation.

Feasibility of online self-administered cognitive training in moderate-severe brain injury.

Stroke rehabilitation and patients with multimorbidity: a scoping review protocol.

A multi-faceted knowledge translation approach to support persons with stroke and cognitive impairment: evaluation protocol.

Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations: Mood, Cognition and Fatigue following Stroke Practice Guidelines, Update 2015

The IDEAS Network: enabling people with invisible disabilities to enter, return to, and stay in the workforce

Frequent collaborators

Gordon Winocur

Carolina Bottari

Nathalie Bier

Emily Nalder

Anne Hunt

Mark Bayley

Sareh Zarshenas

Sylvain Giroux

Sandra Black

Brian Levine

Aileen Davis

Sarah Munce

Bonnie Kirsh

Nir Lipsman

Ying Meng

Rebecca Gewurtz

Nick Reed

Malcolm Binns

Sylvain Giroux

Angela Colantonio

Nathan Herrmann

Demetrios Sahlas

Adam Kirton

Elizabeth Linkewich

David Lloyd Streiner

Linda Kelloway

Rebecca Gewurtz

Maureen Frances Markle-Reid

Julie Richardson

Robert Teasell

Feasibility and Effects of the CO-OP Approach™ in Postconcussion Rehabilitation.