RSI Director, Dr. Angela Colantonio Highlights Sex and Gender in Rehabilitation Research
Dr. Colantonio is currently being featured in the latest issue of The Toronto Star column, Doctor's Notes.
In an article entitled, Why We Need to Pay More Attention to Women’s Head Injuries, she draws attention to the sex and gender knowledge gap that still exists in brain injury research today and emphasizes how important it is to understand the differences at play when it comes to sex and gender and traumatic brain injuries.
To read the full article, click here.
We don’t fully know the differences of how women and men experience brain injury, and that has consequences for how women are diagnosed and treated. - Dr. Colantonio
She is also currently featured on the UHN website, in honour of International Women’s Day, where she talks about what drives her interest in addressing sex and gender differences in rehabilitation research, what her research has uncovered so far, and how she hopes gender and sex-specific research will improve prevention and treatment of TBI for men and women.
To read the full article, click here.
Last month, Dr. Colantonio also presented at the first scientific conference to focus on female concussions: The PINK concussions International Summit on Female Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Georgetown University Medical Center co-hosted the summit with support from the NCAA Sports Science Institute and US Lacrosse, on Saturday, February 27th, 2016 at Georgetown University.
The summit explored the gender differences in brain injury, symptoms treatment and recovery to develop a better model of care for females. International experts reviewed and discussed brain injury across the female life cycle from pediatrics to geriatrics, sports injuries, domestic violence and military service injuries.
Dr. Colantonio was also a guest editor of a special issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, which focused on sex, gender and traumatic brain injury (TBI) to address the gaps in research and practice related to TBI.
In another issue, Dr. Colantonio co-authored two papers entitled Determinants of admission to inpatient rehabilitation among acute-care survivors of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury: a prospective population-wide cohort study and Sex-specific predictors of inpatient rehabilitation outcomes after traumatic brain injury.
Today on March 8, as we celebrate International Women’s Day we once again congratulate Dr. Colantonio and all those involved in women’s research on all their accomplishments in the field!