Dr. Kelly O’Brien Wins OPA Innovation and Advancement Award

The Innovation and Advancement Award recognizes a member who has been a trailblazer within physiotherapy and advances the science of the profession through innovating approaches in clinical practice, research, technology and education.

Nominated by 5 of her OPA peers, Dr. O’Brien contributions include, among others, the development of the Episodic Disability Framework among adults living with HIV, the development of the HIV Disability Questionnaire, the systematic review of aerobic and progressive resistive exercise training in PLWH, the e-module for evidence-informed rehabilitation, and a community-based exercise intervention to improve the health of adults living with HIV.

Dr. O’Brien will be presented with her award at the InterACTION Conference which is being held in Toronto on April 8-9, 2016.