Professor; Director of Research; Medical Director of Stroke Rehabilitation
Western University Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
London, Ontario
Dr. Robert Teasell is Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, former Chair-Chief and current Research Director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Director of the Stroke Rehabilitation Program, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care London and Clinical Researcher with Lawson Health Research Institute, Parkwood Institute Research.
Dr. Teasell is editor of the internationally acclaimed Stroke Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Review, Acquired Brain Injury Evidence-Based Review and co-editor of Spinal Cord Injury Evidence-Based Review. He is Co-Chair of the Canadian Best Practice Guidelines Committee in Stroke Rehabilitation. Dr. Teasell has authored 335 peer-reviewed articles, 335 published abstracts, 22 book chapters, over 1,500 (including 700 international or national) posters/presentations and over 10,000 citations on SCOPUS. He has been involved in over $19 million in research funding and has won many awards, most recently the 2018 Lawson Health Research Institute Impact Scientist of the Year Award and the 2018 Post-Acute Stroke Award of Excellence from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the National Stroke Association.
Friday, October 23, 2020
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST