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William McIlroy

ResearcherKinesiologyUniversity of Waterloo

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William McIlroy

Researcher

Kinesiology

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (5 NSERC, 3 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervisor on 8 trainee awards (8 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Research

balance gait nervous system quantative posturography electroencephalography vision perturbations cognition

Latest papers

Establishing global standards on wearable technology for measuring mobility in ageing populations: an international consensus exercise
Age and Ageing · 2026
Subcortical white matter hyperintensities and motor function in parkinson's disease: findings from the ONDRI study.
GeroScience · 2026
A Novel Approach to Characterizing Patterns of Real-World Upper-Extremity Use During Walking and Activities of Daily Living in People with Subacute Stroke.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026

All 11 publications

Latest funding

SARS-CoV2 infection as a model to understand the long-term impact of respiratory infections on the health and functioning of older adults: the Aging, Infection and Mobility (AIM) Project
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$508,725
Digital Mobility Monitoring in Older Adults: Development of an Open-Source Data Analytics Platform and Behavioral Feedback Reports
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$100,000
Neural Control of Balance in Humans
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$46,000

All 25 grants and awards

11 publications.

Establishing global standards on wearable technology for measuring mobility in ageing populations: an international consensus exercise

Beauchamp MK, D'Amore C, Raina P, McIlroy W, Adesina N, Ahmadi M, Alcock L, Becker C, Doherty A, Donnelly A

Age and Ageing20267 citations

DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afaf376

Subcortical white matter hyperintensities and motor function in parkinson's disease: findings from the ONDRI study.

de Abreu DCC, Pieruccini-Faria F, Lang AE, Cornish B, McIlroy W, Jog M, Masellis M, Ramirez J, Scott C, Symons S, Black SE, Arnott SR, Binns M, Beaton D, Tan B, Marras C, Kwan D, Grimes D, Bartha R, Montero-Odasso M

GeroScience2026

DOI: 10.1007/s11357-025-01727-1 PMID: 40481924

A Novel Approach to Characterizing Patterns of Real-World Upper-Extremity Use During Walking and Activities of Daily Living in People with Subacute Stroke.

Shenoy A, Beyer KB, McIlroy W, Van Ooteghem K, Weber KS, Eng JJ, Yao J, Dukelow SP, Leung G, Hill MD, Teasell R, Quigley A, Mackay-Lyons M, Mountain A, Liem N, Ritsma BR, Bayley MT, Pollock CL

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

DOI: 10.3390/s26154881 PMID: 42590657

Association between vascular risk factors burden and neurodegenerative diseases: results from ONDRI.

Montero-Odasso M, Pieruccini-Faria F, Black SE, Binns MA, Freedman M, Grimes DA, Hegele RA, Haddad SH, Lang AE, Masellis M, Mandzia J, Beaton D, Ramirez J, Roberts AC, McIlroy W, Pasternak SH, Zinman L, Abrahao A, Swartz RH, Symons S, Tan B, Tartaglia C, Son S, Sakurai R, Dilliott A, Cornish BF, Hezam A, Strong MJ, ONDRI Investigators, Bartha R

Journal of neurology2025

DOI: 10.1007/s00415-025-13152-7 PMID: 40413670

Link among apolipoprotein E E4, gait, and cognition in neurodegenerative diseases: ONDRI study.

Sakurai R, Pieruccini-Faria F, Cornish B, Fraser J, Binns MA, Beaton D, Dilliott AA, Kwan D, Ramirez J, Tan B, Scott CJM, Sunderland KM, Tartaglia C, Finger E, Zinman L, Freedman M, McLaughlin PM, Swartz RH, Symons S, Lang AE, Bartha R, Black SE, Masellis M, Hegele RA, McIlroy W, ONDRI Investigators, Montero-Odasso M

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2024

DOI: 10.1002/alz.13740 PMID: 38470007

Characteristics of the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative cohort

Sunderland KM, Beaton D, Arnott SR, Kleinstiver P, Kwan D, Lawrence‐Dewar JM, Ramirez J, Tan B, Bartha R, Black SE

Alzheimer's and Dementia202332 citations

DOI: 10.1002/alz.12632

Association of Dual-Task Gait Cost and White Matter Hyperintensity Burden Poststroke: Results From the ONDRI

Pieruccini-Faria F, Cornish B, Binns M, Fraser J, Haddad SMH, Sunderland K, Ramirez J, Beaton D, Kwan D, Dilliott AA

Journal of Neurologic Rehabilitation20239 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/15459683231177606 PMID: W4379197089

White matter hyperintensity burden predicts cognitive but not motor decline in Parkinson's disease: results from the Ontario Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Initiative.

Carvalho de Abreu DC, Pieruccini-Faria F, Sarquis-Adamson Y, Black A, Fraser J, Van Ooteghem K, Cornish B, Grimes D, Jog M, Masellis M, Steeves T, Nanayakkara N, Ramirez J, Scott C, Holmes M, Ozzoude M, Berezuk C, Symons S, Mohammad Hassan Haddad S, Arnott SR, Binns M, Strother S, Beaton D, Sunderland K, Theyers A, Tan B, Zamyadi M, Levine B, Orange JB, Roberts AC, Lou W, Sujanthan S, Breen DP, Marras C, Kwan D, Adamo S, Peltsch A, Troyer AK, Black SE, McLaughlin PM, Lang AE, McIlroy W, Bartha R, ONDRI Investigators, Montero-Odasso M

European journal of neurology2023

DOI: 10.1111/ene.15692 PMID: 36692250

Consensus on Shared Measures of Mobility and Cognition: From the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).

Montero-Odasso M, Almeida QJ, Bherer L, Burhan AM, Camicioli R, Doyon J, Fraser S, Muir-Hunter S, Li KZH, Liu-Ambrose T, McIlroy W, Middleton L, Morais JA, Sakurai R, Speechley M, Vasudev A, Beauchet O, Hausdorff JM, Rosano C, Studenski S, Verghese J, Canadian Gait and Cognition Network

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2019

DOI: 10.1093/gerona/gly148 PMID: 30101279

Guidelines for Gait Assessments in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).

Cullen S, Montero-Odasso M, Bherer L, Almeida Q, Fraser S, Muir-Hunter S, Li K, Liu-Ambrose T, McGibbon CA, McIlroy W, Middleton LE, Sarquis-Adamson Y, Beauchet O, McFadyen BJ, Morais JA, Camicioli R, Canadian Gait and Cognition Network

Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ2018

DOI: 10.5770/cgj.21.298 PMID: 29977431

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William McIlroy

Research

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Latest funding

Establishing global standards on wearable technology for measuring mobility in ageing populations: an international consensus exercise

Subcortical white matter hyperintensities and motor function in parkinson's disease: findings from the ONDRI study.

A Novel Approach to Characterizing Patterns of Real-World Upper-Extremity Use During Walking and Activities of Daily Living in People with Subacute Stroke.

Association between vascular risk factors burden and neurodegenerative diseases: results from ONDRI.

Link among apolipoprotein E E4, gait, and cognition in neurodegenerative diseases: ONDRI study.

Characteristics of the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative cohort

Association of Dual-Task Gait Cost and White Matter Hyperintensity Burden Poststroke: Results From the ONDRI

White matter hyperintensity burden predicts cognitive but not motor decline in Parkinson's disease: results from the Ontario Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Initiative.

Consensus on Shared Measures of Mobility and Cognition: From the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).

Guidelines for Gait Assessments in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).

SARS-CoV2 infection as a model to understand the long-term impact of respiratory infections on the health and functioning of older adults: the Aging, Infection and Mobility (AIM) Project

Digital Mobility Monitoring in Older Adults: Development of an Open-Source Data Analytics Platform and Behavioral Feedback Reports

Neural Control of Balance in Humans

SMARTMOVE: Validating real-world mobility outcomes derived from wearable technology in older Canadians

SMARTMOVE: Validating clinically relevant mobility measures derived from wearable technology in older Canadians

Aging, Infection and Mobility (AIM): Using wearable technology to understand the long-term functional impact of COVID-19 in community-living older people

Improving disease characterization, symptom management and clinical care in Parkinson's disease: a multi-sensor wearable technology approach

Improving disease characterization, symptom management and clinical care in Parkinson's disease: a multi-sensor wearable technology approach

Central Nervous System Control of Dynamic Stability

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation System

Frequent collaborators

Manuel Montero Odasso

Robert Bartha

Mario Masellis

Connie Marras

Elizabeth Finger

Malcolm Binns

Wendy Lou

Sarah Fraser

Demetrios Sahlas

Gustavo Saposnik

Ekaterina Rogaeva

Stephen Strother

Melissa Holmes

Teresa Liu-Ambrose

Christopher Hudson

Brian Levine

Dar Dowlatshahi

David Grimes

Sali Farhan

Daniel Fuller