Marie Westby
Dr. Westby is a physiotherapist with more than 35 years of experience treating individuals with arthritis and total joint replacements. Her early research focused on identifying and addressing gaps in rehabilitation services both before and after joint replacement surgery through identifying best practices for physiotherapy interventions. In her postdoctoral work, she developed and tested quality indicators to establish a minimum standard of rehabilitation care that all patients should expect to receive along the hip or knee replacement journey. Her work is now looking at how best to move these quality indicators into clinical practice. Marie is funded through a Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional Investigator award.
Cheryl Koehn
Cheryl has lived with rheumatoid arthritis for 35 years and had total knee replacement in 2019. She has become a national patient community leader, educator, patient research partner and published author. Ms. Koehn has dedicated her life to helping others living with arthritis. She is the Founder and President of Arthritis Consumer Experts (ACE), Canada’s first and largest national patient-led organization that provides science-based information and education programs in both official languages. In her leadership role at Arthritis Consumer Experts, Ms. Koehn has led the development of numerous information and education innovations to the arthritis community and been a key member of our team.
Claire Barber
Dr. Barber is an associate professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and also a Research Scientist with Arthritis Research Canada. Her research interests include the development, testing and implementation of quality metrics for healthcare systems. Claire is a co-investigator for both our Canada-wide patient quality indicator questionnaire and QI toolkit implementation study in BC.
Deborah Marshall
Dr. Marshall is a health economist and health services researcher leading a programme of applied research using patient preferences, patient engagement and simulation modelling methods. She is a member of the McCaig Institute of Bone and Joint Health, O’Brien Institute of Public Health, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research institute (ACHRI), and a Senior Scientist at Arthritis Research Canada. Deborah is a co-investigator on our quality indicators toolkit implementation study in BC and co-authored a paper on development of these rehabilitation QIs.
Stirling Bryan
Dr. Bryan is a health economist with extensive experience in health policy and decision-making. He is the Chief Scientific Officer for Health Research BC. Stirling has been collaborating in our research for 10 years and has related research interests in persistent pain after TKR and development and testing of a TKR community-based physical activity program for adults of south Asian descent. Stirling is a co-investigator on our quality indicators toolkit implementation study in BC.
Kendall Ho
Dr. Ho is the head of digital emergency medicine at Vancouver General Hospital and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, UBC. He brings his experience in eHealth and that of his team in pragmatic and complex clinical trials to support our efforts to implement web-based resources and improve digital health literacy of patients and health professionals. Kendall is a co-investigator on our quality indicators toolkit implementation study in BC.
Hubert Wong
Dr. Wong is a biostatistician and Associate Professor, School of Public and Population Health, UBC. He and his team at Advancing Health Solutions are addressing the statistical needs for the implementation feasibility study and advising on future trials. Hubert is a co-investigator on our quality indicators toolkit implementation study in BC.
Catherine Backman
Dr. Backman, Professor Emerita, Dept. of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, UBC is an experienced qualitative researcher. She has been the longest and most patient supporter of this work since becoming Dr. Westby’s PhD supervisor in 2004. Catherine has co-authored papers and contributed to 2 Cochrane systematic reviews that formed the basis of this project. Catherine is a co-investigator on our quality indicators toolkit implementation study in BC.
Sheila Kerr, BPT
Sheila, a former physiotherapist, was a caregiver to her mother who underwent total hip replacement surgery and subsequent complications. Sheila is living with osteoarthritis in her own hips and knees and hoping to avoid surgery. She stays very active with long e-bike trips, travelling the world and spending quality time with her grandchildren. Sheila’s background in healthcare and personal experience with osteoarthritis, as well as her experience in developing plain language resources through Arthritis Research Canada’s Arthritis Patient Advisory Board make her an ideal patient partner and we are so appreciative of her contributions over the past 15 years.
Laurie Grant, LLB
aurie had a total hip replacement (THR) in 2015 and experienced first-hand how important timely and high quality rehabilitation was in her recovery after surgery. Laurie continues to enjoy cycling, skiing, kayaking and travel as aspects of her active lifestyle. She has been a valued patient partner on this project since 2016. Laurie brings her legal background with close attention to detail and English as a second language teaching experience to our work to ensure the resources we develop are clear and easy to understand by people with diverse backgrounds.
Mourad Guirguis
Mourad joined the team in August 2022 in role of lead research assistant. He practiced as a GP in Cairo, Egypt before coming to Canada in 2013. Mourad enthusiastically helps to coordinate all aspects of the project. His research interests include translating research findings into practical solutions that directly benefit real- world individuals or communities.
Tina Ko
Tina joined the team in June 2022 as a research assistant and is currently a student in the Masters of Physical Therapy program at UBC. Tina is a co-author on a Cochrane systematic review on physiotherapy interventions after TKR.
Victoria Mah
Victoria joined the team in September 2023 as a research assistant and is currently a student in the Masters of Physical Therapy program at UBC. Victoria is contributing to the Cochrane systematic review of physiotherapy interventions after TKR.
