Award of Distinction
Congratulations to Margaret Martin! This award recognizes the significant contributions and achievements of a physiotherapist through excellence in practice and the broader community.Margaret is an entrepreneur physiotherapist currently practising in the Ottawa region. Over her career and in addition to her practice she has developed numerous health related education programs for individuals and groups. Most notably, she has developed MelioGuide, a website and training program dedicated to the prevention and management of osteoporosis through exercise. She is also the author of two complementary books – “Building Better Bones” and “Exercise for Better Bones”.
Award for Research Advancing Quality Care
Congratulations to Lisa Carlesso! This award recognizes the importance of evidence based practice in physiotherapy to safe quality service delivery to Ontarians. It is focussed on clinicians involved in research with an intent to disseminate results to a broader audience.Lisa’s work is centered on the safety of orthopaedic manual physiotherapy with particular attention to the cervical spine. She has conducted a group of studies addressing issues such as informed consent, standardization of the use of adverse event terminology and definitions, studying the patient perspective, and considering profession specific data on the occurrence of adverse events related to cervical manipulation. She is the principal investigator and looks forward to continuing to publish her results and present her work at relevant national and international conferences.
