The Neuro Edition Keynote
David Putrino
PT, PhD
David Putrino
PT, PhD
David is a physical therapist with a PhD in Neuroscience. He studied computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, MIT and NYU. He is currently the Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System, and an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He develops innovative rehabilitation solutions for adults and children in need of better healthcare accessibility. He also works with high performance partners such as Red Bull, the Brooklyn Nets NBA team and the US Olympic team to use evidence-based technologies to improve athletic performance. He is the author of Hacking Health: How to make money and save lives in the HealthTech world. In 2019, he was named "Global Australian of the Year" for his contributions to healthcare.
Dr. Eric Leuthardt
M.D.
Dr. Eric Leuthardt
M.D.
Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D. is a neurosurgeon who is currently a professor in the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also Chief of the Division of Neurotechnology and Director of both the Center for Neuroscience in Innovation and Technology and the Brain Laser Center. His undergraduate degrees are in biology and theology from Saint Louis University. His medical degree is from the University of Pennsylvania. He did his neurosurgical residency here at Washington University in St. Louis and he has a fellowship in epilepsy and spine from the University of Washington in Seattle. Leuthardt is an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and scientist. His research has focused on thought-controlled devices linked to the brain that may restore function to patients with various types of disabilities. His work in the field of neuroprosthetics, neurotechnologies, advanced brain imaging, and neurosurgical devices has yielded him numerous accolades as a pioneer in applied neuroscience. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed publications, Leuthardt has nearly 1900 patents on file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a myriad of medical devices and brain computer interface technologies. He is also the founder of eight startup companies, an Emmy Award winning playwright for BrainWorks, and the author of two fiction novels, Red Devil 4 and Limbo. He has two children, daughter Ellie and son Hunter.
Ryan D’Arcy
BSc, MSc, PhD, Eng.L.
Ryan D’Arcy
BSc, MSc, PhD, Eng.L.
Dr. Ryan C.N. D’Arcy is the Co-Founder of HealthTech Connex. Trained in neuroscience, neurotechnology, and medical imaging, Dr. D’Arcy also holds a BC Leadership Chair in Medical Technology, is a full Professor at Simon Fraser University, and a member of the DM Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia. He has published more than 260 academic works, attracted more than $85 Million in competitive research and innovation funding, and been recognized through numerous awards and distinctions. Dr. D'Arcy is a 3X TEDx speaker, who speaks frequently on brain health innovations around the world.
Dr. D’Arcy received a B.Sc. (with distinction) from the University of Victoria along with both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in neuroscience from Dalhousie University (Killam Scholar). He completed post-doctoral training in medical imaging physics at the National Research Council’s Institute for Biodiagnostics, and holds a professional engineering designation in Neurotechnology (Eng.L.). He spent over a decade leading the development of Atlantic Canada’s biomedical imaging cluster before returning home to BC to catalyze and lead the development of the Health and Technology cluster in Surrey.
Dr. D’Arcy is widely recognized for co-founding the Health Sciences and Innovation initiative at Fraser Health’s Surrey Memorial Hospital, which led to co-founding Innovation Boulevard along with the Health and Technology District (the District). In addition to his role as President and Chief Scientific Officer at HealthTech Connex, he also leads the District’s BrainNET initiative to connect advances in neuroscience research to innovations in brain health.
RTS 2022 Speakers
Lauren Rashford
PT, DPT
Lauren Rashford
PT, DPT
Lauren is currently serving as VP of Product Development for Moterum Technologies. She holds a doctorate in physical therapy and brings substantial experience in the neuro-rehabilitation world, including clinical management and business development roles. With her strong background in both clinical and commercial rehabilitation she offers expertise in clinical strategy and implementation. She has played a direct role in launch strategy including management of a product from concept to launch, as well as data integration, and research development. Lauren has also been responsible for clinical operations, building and leveraging partnerships, and delivering current protocols/education. Lauren is a member on the executive board for the Women's Southeast Life Sciences.
Rachel Proffitt
OTD, OTR/L
Rachel Proffitt
OTD, OTR/L
(she/her/hers)
Dr. Rachel Proffitt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on developing, testing, and implementing virtual reality-based interventions for adults and older adults post-stroke. Dr. Proffitt has extensive experience working in an interdisciplinary setting with computer scientists and engineers and was previously the Director of the Game Based Rehab Lab at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California (USC). She has completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship with an emphasis in rehabilitation clinical trials as well as a KL2 Career Development Award. She is currently translating effective interventions, such as LSVT®BIG, for use with the stroke population and pairing telehealth applications for remote delivery in rural areas. Dr. Proffitt is PI of an NIH R21 to develop a new algorithm for activity recognition and assessment in the natural home environment for individuals post-stroke and the PI of an NIH R01 to evaluate a sensor system in the homes of rural community-dwelling older adults.
Brendon Hale
PhD
Brendon Hale
PhD
Brendon Hale, Ph.D. is the Vice President, Health and Market Outcomes Research for Penumbra Inc. In his current role he is responsible for ensuring that clinical and market research support strategic immersive healthcare product development. He does this by partnering with academic and industry leaders to ensure the evidence generated with digital technologies and therapies support full spectrum healthcare. Previously he led the Digital Therapeutics (DTx) research team at OptumLabs where he was responsible for developing research and product roadmaps which supported optimizing use of DTx technologies and devices in healthcare. His academic background is in Human Performance and Neuroscience. He has applied this expertise to lead the development of national health and wellness programs, to design science-based behavior change approaches for use in DTx, and to develop patented personalization algorithms for use in immersive healthcare. All of his efforts are directed to ensuring that DTx technologies are adopted in healthcare and that these technologies provide value to patients, caregivers, providers, hospital systems, and learning organizations.
Meredith Mayton
MOT, OTR/L
Meredith Mayton
MOT, OTR/L
Meredith Mayton currently serves as the Multi-Specialty Program Manager at the new state-of-the-science Sheltering Arms Institute in Richmond, VA. Until the opening of this facility, she served as the Occupational Therapy Team Lead for inpatient and outpatient therapy services at the parent Sheltering Arms Hospital. She was the leader of the iREACH Clinical Program which focused on upper extremity neurological recovery through advanced technologies. She has also served in a Knowledge Broker role which sought to bridge the gap between current evidence and its application into clinical practice. She has 14 years of experience as an occupational therapist with the adult neurological population and now works to lead the therapy team at the Institute.
Giri Srinivasan
PT, BPT, PGBDT, PGDG, CAFCI, CGIMS, ITPT
Giri Srinivasan
PT, BPT, PGBDT, PGDG, CAFCI, CGIMS, ITPT
Giri Srinivasan is a Registered Physical Therapist in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with over 24 years of Clinical experience with Neurology focus. He has done his Post graduate Diploma in Basic Developmental therapy for Children with neurological disabilities and in Gerontology & Geriatrics. He is also a Clinical instructor for European School of Physiotherapy, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Brunel University, London. He is a Certified Bioness Clinician using Functional Electrical Stimulation in his outpatient Neurological Physiotherapy for the last 12 years. He is also a Certified PoNS trainer from 2021.
Giri likes to advocate for the necessity of physical health and movement literacy in our community through his passion project called “Ask Giri, the Physio Show” (www, physioshow.ca). It’s a video blog show to educate and empower people to optimize their brain, body and movement. He enjoys playing cricket in the league, hiking, skiing and camping with friends and family.
Caitlin Wright
MOT, OTR/L, CBIS
Caitlin Wright
MOT, OTR/L, CBIS
Caitlin Wright is currently the Occupational Therapy Advisor in the Clinical Science Department at Sheltering Arms Institute in Richmond, VA. Her background includes primarily inpatient services at Sheltering Arms Hospital, one of the parent organizations of Sheltering Arms Institute. Her primary duties as part of the clinical science department includes knowledge translation across the hospital and ensuring the standardization of best practice across the occupational therapy department.
Betsey Jansen
I have been working at Tyromotion GmbH, located in Graz Austria since March 2013. Taking on the role as Key Account Manager Asia and during the end of 2013 including Middle East as well, I developed our market in these regions. Starting in 2020 I shifted to focus solely on Business Development, heading the new department within Tyromotion. In March 2020, I was nominated to head the Health Economics working group at IISART. Part of this role included a series of webinars based on the reimbursement landscape as well as a US based project.
Marisa Mackenzie
Marisa Mackenzie is a specialist Neuro Occupational Therapist with over a decade of experience specializing in rehabilitation both in Switzerland and in the United Kingdom. During her time working in rehabilitation, she enthusiastically researched new treatment methods and implemented them into her therapy. After qualifing in the United Kingdom, Marisa went on to to recieve a Sensory Integration Continuing Education (CE) Certificate from University of Southern California. The driving force of her work has been the desire to improve the quality of life for patients, this passion pushed her to pursue a career with MindMaze where she could impact change and develop innovative new treatments methods to help solve the gap in rehabilitation. Currently at MindMaze she is leading the Clinical Success Team.
Jennifer Stoskus
PT, DPT, NCS
Jennifer Stoskus
PT, DPT, NCS
(she/her/hers)
Jennifer Stoskus, is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy (PT, DPT, NCS). She is currently the Executive Director of Clinical Affairs for Virtualis, a rehabilitation technology company centered on therapeutic immersive virtual reality and force plate technologies. Her clinical practice focuses on the management of adults with vestibular, concussion, and balance disorders. Dr. Stoskus is an active member of the APTA’s Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy including the Vestibular SIG, Vestibular EDGE outcome measure task force, and APTAnj’s Vestibular Special Interest Group (Co-Chair). In addition to her full-time work, Dr. Stoskus is an adjunct faculty member in the Seton Hall DPT program (NJ) teaching content in adult neurology, postural control assessment using technology, vestibular rehabilitation, and professional development and leadership seminar. She has previously taught clinical neuroscience in the DPT program at Touro College’s Bay Shore campus (NY).
Natasha Campbell
MSc, ACRP-CP
Natasha Campbell
MSc, ACRP-CP
Natasha Campbell, MSc, ARCP-CP is the Clinical Trials Manager at the Centre for Neurology (CNS) where she and the CNS team operationalize the research of ground-breaking health interventions, with a primary focus in neurorehabilitation. Natasha holds an MSc in Neuroscience from McGill University, certification from the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, and was trained at the Montreal Neurological Institute’s Clinical Research Unit. Her mission is to connect patients to the latest advances in healthcare by facilitating clinical research in neuroscience, neuroplasticity and brain health.
The CNS is a private clinical research site that administers clinical trials and consulting services, specializing in neuroscience. Clinically embedded at the Surrey Neuroplasticity Clinic, a neurorehabilitation clinic located within the Health and Technology District ecosystem, CNS offers high-quality evaluation and delivery of neuro innovations while integrating scientific evidence and real-world clinical practices.
Tanja Yardley
Tanja has 30 years experience as a Physiotherapist and healthcare leader, working for the past several years in the neuroscience and health technology innovation world. Tanja has been passionate about brain health and optimization throughout her colourful career. She was recognized in 2020 with a Canadian Physiotherapy Association Centennial Medal, recognizing thought leaders and innovators that made a difference and advanced the profession over the last 100 years.
Tanja is a leadership and innovation coach, a brain health clinician, an educator and a research collaborator. All of these interests joyfully collide in her current role as the Brain Health Integration Lead at Healthtech Connex.
Lindsay Watson
Lindsay Watson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Augment Therapy, Inc. a telehealth-enabled software that uses augmented reality experiences to engage children in physical and occupational therapy. Her passion to drive change in the pediatric healthcare industry is due in part to her 20 years working as a physical therapist specializing in pediatrics. As a tech founder, she was named one of Cleveland’s Notable Women of Technology, and Cleveland.com’s HomeGrown Hero in the category of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Her company has won many awards including GCP’s “Most Promising Startup,” in 2020, participated in multiple tech accelerators nationwide, and recently was mentioned in Forbes magazine. Lindsay resides in Chagrin Falls, Ohio with her husband and 3 children.
Visar Berisha
PhD
Visar Berisha
PhD
Visar Berisha is co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer at Aural Analytics and Associate Professor at Arizona State University. His main interests include speech analytics for clinical applications, artificial intelligence, and information theory. His work is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Department of Defense. Berisha's work has been featured in the Science section of the New York Times, on ESPN, National Public Radio, Wired magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and a number of other international media outlets.
Alison Bean
Alison is a Specialist Neurological and Research Physiotherapist with over 10 years of clinical experience, the majority within specialist neurological services. Based in the UK, Alison has worked both in the NHS and Independent Sector, now working at Hobbs Rehabilitation in a split clinical and research role. This includes leading MiNT, an innovative neurotechnology platform combining clinical education and product development.
Alison also has teaching experience at multiple UK academic institutions, holding a Post-Graduate Certificate in Medical Education. Working as the Lead Clinician on multiple research projects within Hobbs Rehabilitation, Alison is passionate about driving forward the use of neurotechnology in clinical practice to optimize opportunities and outcomes for patients.
Helen Hobbs
Helen is a specialist neurological physiotherapist with over 25 years of specialist clinical experience and extensive clinical skills including advanced Bobath training. She has a special interest in clinical education, training and research. She held post graduate clinical training roles at both Kings College NHS Hospital London Neuroscience Centre and Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust before establishing Hobbs Rehabilitation.
Her teaching and leadership skills resulted in international scholarships and fellowships taking her to the USA and South Africa. She has presented both nationally and internationally. Helen has close links with several academic institutions including Southampton, Imperial College, Loughborough , Portsmouth and Winchester Universities to provide clinical leadership for the design of future healthcare technologies and research projects. Her publications have included the effects of robotic assisted gait training on vascular health in strokes and spinal cord injured patients and the European rehabilitation guidelines for MS patients post stem cell transplant.
Lizzie Williams
Lizzie is a Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist working at Hobbs Rehabilitation since May 2020. She also has a background in orthopaedics, frailty and inpatient rehabilitation. Lizzie jumped at the opportunity to be involved in MiNT to combine her interest in technology and love for providing high quality rehabilitation for patients. Lizzie brings the perspective of a physiotherapist who routinely utilises neurotechnology with patients as well as teaching and supporting other clinicians in embedding it into practice.
George Collier
PhD
George Collier
PhD
George H. Collier Ph.D. is a Senior Data Scientist for Shepherd Center, a leading Rehabilitation Hospital. His passion is to improve patient care through applying cutting-edge advances in big data and data science.
Dr. Collier received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from Princeton and started working as a Research Scientist at Telcordia, a spin-out from Bell Labs. At Telcordia, he worked in both research and as a technical lead of multiple commercial products. Subsequently, as Principal Data Scientist at Ericsson, Dr. Collier led teams that delivered groundbreaking enterprise big data projects. Separately he developed new rehabilitation applications used in multiple research projects. At Shepherd he is laying the groundwork of a cloud-based big data system to support predictive analytics.
In his spare time, Dr. Collier likes to cook, spend time with his family and ride bicycles in the mountains and wild and beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.
Uyen Nguyen
B.A, BScPT, AFCI, CPMA
Uyen Nguyen
B.A, BScPT, AFCI, CPMA
Being a white space thinker, Uyen is driven by opportunities to impact change. In 2012, she co-founded Synaptic: Spinal Cord Injury and Neuro Rehabilitation Centre in response to a critical need for community-based care for people living with neurological conditions. She remains committed to the vision that innovative thought followed by compassionate actions can lead to profound opportunities for people to become empowered in their own health journey.
Ali Jafferjee
PT, MSc. PT, BSc
Ali Jafferjee
PT, MSc. PT, BSc
Ali’s career in Neurological Rehabilitation began during his undergraduate volunteership at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute where he helped explore various research topics studying the role of exercise in stroke rehabilitation. This experience, working with stroke patients, eventually led him to Scotland, UK where he pursued a master’s degree in Physical Therapy.
Ali has had the opportunity to work in The UK’s National Health Service for 3 years across Scotland and England where he gained invaluable experience rehabilitating patients post neuro and orthopedic surgeries. This expertise has led to successful post-surgical results for patients in his current practice.
His strong interest in working with clients with various neurological conditions as well as complex orthopedic injuries has led him to further his education. He has a range of post-graduate treatment skills that include:
• Canadian Bobath Instructors Association – Understanding Locomotion
• Complete Concussion Management Inc – Concussion Management Practitioner
• Advanced Vestibular Rehabilitation through the Dizziness and Balance Rehabilitation Clinic
• Myndmove Functional Electrical Stimulation for upper extremity dysfunction post-neurological injury
• Keeogo Exo-Skeleton system for lower limb facilitation in gait re-training
• PoNS Neuromodulation Stimulator
Ali looks forward to furthering his education within the Orthopedic Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. He also participates and presents at the ECHO Project where he interacts with experts in the area of Traumatic Brain Injuries to ensure his practice is based on the most recent and relevant literature. In addition to his clinical practice, he has helped his patients participate in clinical trials at the University of Toronto as well as Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
When he’s not at the clinic, Ali enjoys a good game of pick up soccer and
outdoor activities such as camping, trekking and rock climbing. Additionally, Ali is an avid swimmer and grew up competing in swim meets and water polo events all over Kenya. He loves to explore new and remote places and travels as much as he can.
Ali is registered with the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario and is a member of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association.
Carolyn Brown
OTD, OTR/L, CLT
Carolyn Brown
OTD, OTR/L, CLT
Carolyn Brown is the executive director of StrokeOT, Inc. a nonprofit social service organization whose mission is to provide virtual health, exercise, and lifestyle support to community stroke and brain injury survivors. Health insurance plans continue to reduce the number of therapy visits and high insurance deductibles and copays cause many clients to feel financial pressure. StrokeOT, Inc. stemmed from a desire to address a gap in services for people who are experiencing these inequalities by providing free, long-term support for the self-management of a stroke or brain injury.
Dr. Brown has been an occupational therapist for over 25 years working in adult neurological rehabilitation and is a part-time professor at Quinnipiac University specializing in neurorehabilitation coursework. Her research investigates the adaptation of in-person interventions (Lifestyle Redesign®, occupational performance coaching, and cardiovascular exercise interventions) into the telehealth platform. Dr. Brown is also a certified lymphedema therapist and low vision specialist.
Lise Pape
Founder, Walk With Path
Lise Pape
Founder, Walk With Path
Lise Pape is the Founder of Walk With Path and in charge of business development, strategy and partnership. Lise holds a BSc in Human Biology from King’s College London and a double masters MA/MSc in Innovation Design Engineering from Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. In addition, Lise has worked in finance for J.P. Morgan, where she held roles in Product Management, Network Management, and was responsible for client and stakeholder relationships internally and externally. She has also worked in advertising for AOL’s Advertising.com, where she was a Delivery Manager responsible for the Nordic region. Additionally, Lise has worked as Investment Manager at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark at the Royal Danish Embassy in London, where she was responsible for job creation intoDenmark within life sciences and clean technologies. Lise founded Walk With Path in 2014, based on her developments during Innovation Design Engineering, and her personal experience with Parkinson’s suffered by her father. The company launched its first product in 2017; Path Finder, a visual cueing shoe attachment to help those with Parkinson’s. The second product, a haptic feedback insole to improve balance; Path Feel, is in development.
Marina Borukhovich
Marina is a serial entrepreneur, cancer survivor, passionate health coach and transformative tech CEO who's made it her mission to kickstart the Health Coaching Revolution. She's the founder and CEO of the premier home for all things health and wellness coaching, YourCoach.Health.
Tracy Milner
MClSc(OT), PhD Student
Tracy Milner
MClSc(OT), PhD Student
Tracy Milner is the co-creator of the BrainFx neurofunctional assessments, author on the Canadian Model of Cognitive Skills (submitted for publication) and co-creator on the new Cognitive Behavioural Sensory Job Demands Analysis (CoBS-JDA). Her mission is to measure and understand the effects of mild to moderate brain and mental health disorders on real world function. Her academic interest for her PhD with the University of Alberta is related to leveraging big data into practical and useful clinical decision support tools.
She is an occupational therapist who has practiced extensively in neurorehabilitation with adults and children for more than twenty years. Over the course of her career, she has led rehabilitation organizations as part of two national health organizations and co-founder of a provincial practice for complex injuries and neurological disorders. Being an early adopter of the use of technology therapeutically, she has been prominent in delivering seminars to thousands of health professionals on how to leverage digital health and smart devices in clinical practice. Tracy has significant experience in advocacy roles through government, association, and committee roles. She has presented at many brain injury, neurodegenerative and health conferences (by invitation, via peer reviewed submission) in Canada, including provincial conferences, and the US, most notably the Washington TBI Conference and HIMSS, as well as directly hospitals and community rehabilitation centers.
She has a BA with Honors in Kinesiology and Masters in Occupational Therapy from Western University. Tracy Milner’s work at a Masters level went on to be published in the Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy International. She teaches the assessment module for the post-graduate Health Coaching for Chronic Disease at York University. Tracy is passionate about neurofunctional assessment and intervention and views her executive role at Highmark Interactive, which recently started publicly trading on the TSXV as HMRK) as her opportunity to combine her love of research, technology and clinical practice to positively impact not only her own clients, but adults and children globally.
Dr. Clayton Cowl
MD, MS
Dr. Clayton Cowl
MD, MS
Dr. Clayton Cowl (pronounced “COLE”) is the immediate past Chair of the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota with a joint appointment in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. He a Past President of the American College of Chest Physicians (2018-19) as well as prior President of the Civil Aviation Medical Association.
His research interests have focused on projects involving respiratory physiology and environmental aspects of pulmonary disease, including care of individuals within Transportation Medicine dealing with COVID-19 infection and post-COVID syndrome issues. Dr. Cowl has also studied a variety of occupational and environmental illnesses, including toxic inhalations and occupational asthma, and he has published epidemiological research on multiple topics.
Angela Smalley
PhD, BOCPD, COF, CES
Angela Smalley
PhD, BOCPD, COF, CES
Angela leads the Commercialization Services arm of Simbex, a medical device and consumer health product design and development firm in Lebanon, NH. Her role involves providing guidance and strategic consulting to medtech innovators who are in the process of bringing their product to market. She specializes in assessing the product viability from the perspective of care pathway, clinical workflow, and reimbursement considerations. She also provides expertise in literature review and market assessment to understand the opportunity landscape in the context of the larger medical ecosystem. Her work at Simbex has included involvement in the NIH-funded DRIVEN Accelerator Hub and the NIH-funded Center for Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT). Her background includes a PhD in Rehabilitation Science with research emphasis on the impact of orthoses on the biomechanics of gait, posture, and balance. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Board of Certification/Accreditation International. Her past career includes clinical experience in a variety of settings including sports medicine, orthopedics, and orthotics and prosthetics.
Jane Connely
OTR/L, MA, NDT, PAMS
Jane Connely
OTR/L, MA, NDT, PAMS
Heal the Brain Founder, Jane Connely is an Occupational Therapist and neuro specialist in San Luis Obispo, CA. She received her MA in Occupational Therapy from the University of Southern California, as well as a BA in English Literature from Loyola Marymount University. She is also NDT Certified (Neurodevelopmental Training). In 2018, she launched Heal The Brain With Jane, an online platform where she and others offered tips and resources for brain injury survivors. This evolved into the global survivor and clinician-centered non-profit we now know as Heal the Brain. Today, Jane hosts a podcast called No-Brainer and continues daily work with Heal the Brain. She is a practicing in-person occupational therapist in Downtown San Luis Obispo and the mother of three darling children.
Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn
MD, MPH
Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn
MD, MPH
Dr. Van is an occupational and aerospace medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic. He is the medical director for Mayo’s first program for COVID long haulers, the Covid Activity Rehabilitation Program. Dr. Van graduated from Cornell University and then pursued his doctorate at Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed residency first in family medicine with VCU and then in occupational medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He also obtained a Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to his work at Mayo, he practiced in northwest Montana for nearly a decade, helping injured workers recover their function and lives. Outside of medicine, he is an avid fly fisherman, an Ironman triathlete, and a private pilot.
Stacey Woods
OTD, OTR/L, OT Reg. Ont
Stacey Woods
OTD, OTR/L, OT Reg. Ont
Stacey Woods is an Occupational Therapist and clinical educator working for NeuroCatch. She has worked in a variety of hospital and community settings providing Occupational Therapy services to clients with neurological and musculoskeletal impairments. She has held several program development, management and clinical education positions. She has a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Boston University, as well as Bachelors degrees in Kinesiology degree and Occupational Therapy from McMaster University. She is licensed and registered to practice in both Canada and the United States. Her experience has focused on neurological, physical and cognitive rehabilitation and he has presented at peer-reviewed conferences nationally and internationally.