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Lawrence Robinson

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Lawrence Robinson

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Research

Coping Feasibility Randomized Control Trial Group Therapy Musculoskeletal Psychosocial Qualitative Quality Of Life Rehabilitation

Latest papers

AAOS 2024 CTS Guidelines-Comments by Members of AANEM CTS Severity Scale Workgroup.
Muscle & nerve · 2025
Coping with stressful life disruptions due to long COVID: A qualitative study.
PloS one · 2025
Choosing Wisely in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · 2025

All 16 publications

Latest funding

Evaluating the Feasibility of Training and Deploying Peer Champions to Support Healthcare Workers Psychosocial Needs Utilizing the STEADY Wellness Program Framework
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Co-Designing a Cross-Continuum Peer Support Program for Trauma Survivors
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$210,376
Co-Creating a Rehabilitation Strategy to Support the Psychosocial Recovery of Individuals with Long COVID
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$221,850

All 9 grants and awards

16 publications.

AAOS 2024 CTS Guidelines-Comments by Members of AANEM CTS Severity Scale Workgroup.

Bland J, Rubin D, Robinson L, Cartwright M, Andary M, Kincaid J, Al-Lawati Z, Grant P

Muscle & nerve2025

DOI: 10.1002/mus.28477 PMID: 40778412

Coping with stressful life disruptions due to long COVID: A qualitative study.

Wasilewski MB, Leighton J, Reis L, Vijayakumar A, English M, Sanchez K, Hitzig SL, Nelson MLA, Sheppard C, Robinson L, Steinberg R, Nguyen M, Bayley M, Daneman N, Levy C, Goulding S, Ho C, Simpson R

PloS one2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0329831 PMID: 40828804

Choosing Wisely in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Neferu R, Fortin C, Guo M, Robinson L, Bateman EA

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation2025

DOI: 10.1097/phm.0000000000002599

Identifying deficiencies in palpation of lumbopelvic structures with ultrasound in PM&R residents.

Sangha H, Farag J, Robinson L, Mittal N

PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation2024

DOI: 10.1002/pmrj.13137 PMID: 38666726

Serial electrodiagnostic testing: Utility and indications in adult neurological disorders.

Hearn SL, Stino AM, Howard IM, Malhotra G, Robinson L

Muscle & nerve2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/mus.28083 PMID: 38549195

The experiences of patients, family caregivers, healthcare providers, and health service leaders with compassionate care following hospitalization with COVID-19: a qualitative study.

Simpson R, Szigeti Z, Sheppard CL, Minezes J, Hitzig SL, Mayo AL, Robinson L, Lung M, Wasilewski MB

Disability and rehabilitation2023

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2113564 PMID: 36354063

Providing rehabilitation to patients recovering from COVID-19: A scoping review.

Wasilewski MB, Cimino SR, Kokorelias KM, Simpson R, Hitzig SL, Robinson L

PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/pmrj.12669 PMID: 34240576

Lower Motor Neuron Abnormality in Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Implications for Nerve Transfer Surgery.

Berger MJ, Robinson L, Krauss EM

Journal of neurotrauma2022

DOI: 10.1089/neu.2020.7579 PMID: 33626968

Impact of mandatory online learning module for healthcare workers intending to decline influenza immunization: Implications for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Delaney LM, Williams VR, Tomiczek N, Robinson L, Kiss A, Leis JA

Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE2021

DOI: 10.1017/ash.2021.174 PMID: 36168504

Do Milestone Ratings Predict Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Certification Examination Scores?

Francisco GE, Yamazaki K, Raddatz M, Sabharwal S, Robinson L, Kinney C, Holmboe E

American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation2021

DOI: 10.1097/phm.0000000000001613 PMID: 33048889

Evaluating the Feasibility of Training and Deploying Peer Champions to Support Healthcare Workers Psychosocial Needs Utilizing the STEADY Wellness Program Framework

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ellis, Janet W; Sinyor, Mark

Keywords: Covid-19 Stress; Healthcare Worker; Implementation Science; Knowledge Translation; Mental Wellbeing; Occupational Stress Injury; Peer Support; Posttraumatic Stress; Resilience; Staff Wellness Programming

$100,000

Co-Designing a Cross-Continuum Peer Support Program for Trauma Survivors

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Wasilewski, Marina

Keywords: Experience-Based Co-Design; Implementation Science; Patient And Family Engagement; Peer Support; Psychosocial Recovery; Qualitative Methods; Transitions In Care; Trauma

$210,376

Co-Creating a Rehabilitation Strategy to Support the Psychosocial Recovery of Individuals with Long COVID

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Wasilewski, Marina; Simpson, Robert

Keywords: Co-Design Approach; Covid-19; Implementation; Long Covid; Psychosocial Recovery; Qualitative Methods; Rehabilitation; Survey Methods

$221,850

Long COVID and Episodic Disability: Advancing the Conceptualization, Measurement and Knowledge of Episodic Disability with people living with Long COVID

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities - Post COVID-19 condition

Principal investigators: O'Brien, Kelly K; Brown, Darren A; Bergin, Colm J; ERLANDSON, KRISTINE M; Vera, Jaime

Keywords: Conceptual Framework; Disability; Episodic Disability; Long Covid; Measurement; Patient-Reported Outcome Measure

$204,205

CANCOV2.0: 2-year follow up of the Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr: Emer. COVID Res. Gaps/Prior- Dif. Impacts on Hist. Excl/Underserved Pops

Principal investigators: Herridge, Margaret S; Cheung, Angela M

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Covid-19 Research Gaps; Determinants And Prevalence Of Long-Term Outcomes Of Covid; Functional And Neuropsychological Health & Quality Of Life; Long Covid Serologic, Immunologic & Inflammatory Biomarkers; Longitudinal Study; Mitigating Factors For Disability & Impact Of Rehabilitation; Neurocognitive, Respiratory, Cardiac & Muscle Systems

$500,000

Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Clinical Mgmt/Health System Interventions

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Ahmed, Sofia B; Batt, Jane Andrea E; Binnie, Alexandra; Dos Santos, Claudia C; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Lamontagne, Francois; Morin, Suzanne N; Palepu, Anita; Razak, Fahad; Stelfox, Henry T; Strug, Lisa J; Tsang, Jennifer L; Verma, Amol; Yeung, Rae S

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Full Spectrum Of Covid-19 Disease (Mild To Severe); Host Genetic Profiling; Knowledge To Action Cycles; Mental Health & Stigma; Prediction Models Using Machine Learning; Prospective Cohort Study; Sociodemographic And Clinical Predictors Of Outcomes; Transcriptomic, Epigenomic And Immunologic Host Response

$2,112,500

Co-Designing a Cross-Continuum Peer Support Program for Trauma Patients

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Wasilewski, Marina

Keywords: Experience-Based Co-Design; Implementation Science; Patient And Family Engagement; Peer Support; Psychosocial Recovery; Qualitative Methods; Transitions In Care; Trauma

$100,000

A Psychosocial Transitional Group to Improve Adaptation, Coping and Mental Health Outcomes Following Trauma

Nominated PICIHR2019Catalyst: Address.Musculoskeletal Cond./Arthritis in Cnd- Musculoskeletal trauma

Principal investigators: Robinson, Lawrence; Lawlor, Andrew; Steinberg, Rosalie J

Keywords: Coping; Feasibility Randomized Control Trial; Group Therapy; Musculoskeletal; Psychosocial; Qualitative; Quality Of Life; Rehabilitation; Self-Efficacy; Trauma

$99,986

Developing a Patient-Oriented Rehabilitation Research Agenda

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grants

Principal investigators: Hitzig, Sander L; Saporta, Adam; Torrie, Mary Jane

Keywords: Consensus Building; Delphi Method; Disability; Health Promotion; Knowledge Transfer And Exchange; Patient Oriented Research; Qualitative Methods; Quality Of Life; Rehabilitation

$20,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Lawrence Robinson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

AAOS 2024 CTS Guidelines-Comments by Members of AANEM CTS Severity Scale Workgroup.

Coping with stressful life disruptions due to long COVID: A qualitative study.

Choosing Wisely in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Identifying deficiencies in palpation of lumbopelvic structures with ultrasound in PM&R residents.

Serial electrodiagnostic testing: Utility and indications in adult neurological disorders.

The experiences of patients, family caregivers, healthcare providers, and health service leaders with compassionate care following hospitalization with COVID-19: a qualitative study.

Providing rehabilitation to patients recovering from COVID-19: A scoping review.

Lower Motor Neuron Abnormality in Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Implications for Nerve Transfer Surgery.

Impact of mandatory online learning module for healthcare workers intending to decline influenza immunization: Implications for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Do Milestone Ratings Predict Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Certification Examination Scores?

Evaluating the Feasibility of Training and Deploying Peer Champions to Support Healthcare Workers Psychosocial Needs Utilizing the STEADY Wellness Program Framework

Co-Designing a Cross-Continuum Peer Support Program for Trauma Survivors

Co-Creating a Rehabilitation Strategy to Support the Psychosocial Recovery of Individuals with Long COVID

Long COVID and Episodic Disability: Advancing the Conceptualization, Measurement and Knowledge of Episodic Disability with people living with Long COVID

CANCOV2.0: 2-year follow up of the Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study

Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)

Co-Designing a Cross-Continuum Peer Support Program for Trauma Patients

A Psychosocial Transitional Group to Improve Adaptation, Coping and Mental Health Outcomes Following Trauma

Developing a Patient-Oriented Rehabilitation Research Agenda

Frequent collaborators

Robert Simpson

Marcus Ng

Steven Baker

Chester Ho

Jaylyn Leighton

Christine Sheppard

Rosalie Steinberg

Nimish Mittal

Susie Goulding

Dinesh A Kumbhare

Ramona Neferu

Nick Daneman

Mark Bayley

Chester Ho