Our Team

Executive Committee

Andrew Baker, MD, FRCPC

CONNECT Director, Chief of the Departments of Critical Care and of
Anesthesia, and the Medical Director of the Surgery and Critical Care
Program at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. Cara Phelan Chair of Critical Care Medicine and a Professor and the Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto

Carmela Tartaglia, MD, FRCPC

CONNECT Co-Director, Cognitive/behavioral neurologist at the University Health Network Toronto, Memory Clinic, Scientist at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Mark Bayley, MD, FRCPC

CONNECT Co-Director, Physiatrist-in-Chief & Program Medical Director, University Health Network- Toronto Rehab Institute, Ontario

Matthew Burke, MD, FRCPC

Cognitive Neurologist and Clinician Investigator at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto

Vicki Kristman, PhD

Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario Research Chair in Injury & Disability Prevention. Professor, Department of Health Sciences.
Director & Senior Scientist, EPID@Work (Enhancing the Prevention of Injury & Disability @ Work) Research Institute. CIHR University Delegate and UDEC Member, Lakehead University, Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Work & Health

Karl Zabjek, PhD

Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Affiliate Scientist, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network

Flora Matheson, PhD

Scientist and Lead, Justice & Equity Lab at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. Sociologist with expertise in gender, health and social-structural inequities

Ruth Wilcock

Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Brain Injury Association, St. Catherines Ontario

Billie-Jo Hardie, PhD

Indigenous Lead Assistant Professor at the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto


Platform Leads

Michael Cusimano, MD, FRCSC, DABNS, FACS, PhD, MHPE

Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor of Neurosurgery, Education and Public Health, University of Toronto

Shawn Marshall, MD, FRCPC

Clinical Investigator, Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Carmela Tartaglia, MD, FRCPC

Cognitive/behavioral neurologist at the University Health Network Toronto, Memory Clinic, Scientist at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Robin Green, PhD

Senior Scientist; Research Division Head, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Toronto

Thomas Hoshizaki, PhD

Professor, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa

James Hutchison, MD, FRCPC

Research Director, Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children
Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health, Research Institute
Professor, Departments of Critical Care and Paediatrics, University of Toronto

Tom Schweizer, PhD

Director, Neuroscience Research Program,  St. Michael’s Hospital
Scientist, Keenan Research Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine (Neurosurgery), University of Toronto

Karl Zabjek, PhD

Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Affiliate Scientist, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network

Michael Hutchison, PhD

Director, Concussion Program, MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto


Management Team

Cindy Hunt, Dr. PH, RN

Senior Research Associate, Head Injury Clinic Trauma and Neurosurgery Program, St. Michael’s Hospital, Assistant Professor Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Justina Zych, BSc

Central Research Coordinator, CONNECT Program

David Murty, BSc

Knowledge Translation Lead

Research Assistant & Clinical Delegate, Trauma and Neurosurgery Program, St. Michael’s Hospital

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