Evidence-Based Rehabilitation - A Guide to Practice - Grand Format

Mary Law, PhD, OT Reg (Ont), FCAHS is a professor at the School of Rehabilitation Science and CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University, Canada. She holds the John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research. Mary, an occupational therapist by training, is cofounder of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, a multidisciplinary research centre at McMaster University.
Mary's research centers on the development and validation of client-centered outcome measures, evaluation of occupational therapy interventions with children, the effect of environmental factors on the participation of children with disabilities in day-to-day activities, and transfer of research knowledge into practice. In her educational activities, Mary is involved in teaching the theoretical basis of occupational therapy practice and evidence-based occupational therapy practice in the occupational therapy program as well as supervising graduate students.
Mary is the lead author of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, a client-centered outcome measure for occupational therapy, and has written books on client-centered occupational therapy and measurement of occupational performance. Joy C. MacDermid, PhD, PT Reg (Ont), FCAHS is a physical therapist, hand therapist, and clinical epidemiologist. She is a professor at the School of Rehabilitation Science and Assistant Dean of Rehabilitation Science Graduate Programs at McMaster University.
Joy is also codirector of the Hand and Upper Limb Centre (HULC) Clinical Research Lab. She is cross-appointed into Health Research Methodology at McMaster University and the Departments of Surgery at both McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario. Her teaching and research emphasizes evidence-based practice, clinical measurement, and knowledge translation. Joy's research focuses on developing and transferring into practice the best evidence for prevention, assessment, and management of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders including musculoskeletal health (upper extremity/neck) ; rehabilitative and surgical interventions for bone, joint, nerve, muscle, and tendon disorders ; design and conduct of randomized clinical trials and cohort studies ; clinical measurement of pain and disability (performance and self-report) ; and work-related risks, interventions, and work disability.