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2024

The following awards were presented at the Inaugural School of Health Conference.

Emily Carrese-Chacra

Ed Whitlock Award

Winner: Berkley Petersen

Berkley Petersen is a 4th year PhD candidate in the department of Psychology at Concordia University. Her doctoral research aims to investigate if a home-based online cognitive training intervention can improve older adults’ cognition, mobility, and multitasking abilities. This 6-week attention training program might help offset declining motor and cognitive systems and enable older adults to continue their everyday activities and leisure pursuits more safely and with less effort. Another part of her dissertation is dedicated to qualitative research to gain insights into the lived experiences of older adults who encounter a combination of sensory, motor, and cognitive challenges. Outside of research, Berkley is actively involved in the aging community as an avid curler at the Montreal West Curling Club. Engaging in sports with older adults has allowed her to develop a better understanding about the importance of leisure and active living as one grows older. As Berkley enters her final year of study, she is excited to share her dissertation results with the aging community to promote healthy and active aging.

Student Poster Presentation Awards

Brain Vision Award ($250)

  • Winner: Claire Dyment
    Presentation title: Exploring the Interaction of Age and Presence of Insomnia on Sleep Spindle Density in Females
  • Winner: Vanessa Raspa
    Presentation title: Corticomuscular Representation in Motor Sequence Learning

engAGE Award ($500)

  • Winner: Julia Bissessar
    Presentation title: The Use of Rhythmic Speech Cuing® and Vocal Intonation Therapy® for Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson's Disease: A Case Study

Fédération des kinésiologues du Québec (FKQ) Award ($250)

  • Winner: Chanelle Montpetit
    Presentation title: Making Waves: Exploring The Effects of Aquatic Therapy on Muscle Strength in Chronic Low Back Pain

Patricia Dudar Award ($250)

  • Winner: Vanessa Pereira
    Presentation title: Genetic Network Rewiring Between Distantly Related Eukaryotic Species
  • Winner: John Neufeld
    Presentation title: Narrative Futurity in Later Life: Rethinking life story work to address loneliness
  • Winner: Malcolm Dunson-Todd
    Presentation title: Towards standard testing to evaluate exoskeleton efficacy for construction workers
  • Winner: Jullie Coupal
    Presentation title: Feasibility of a Fully Virtual Graded Exertion Test in Children with Concussion

Réseau de recherche en santé cardiométabolique, diabète et obésité (CMDO) Award ($500)

  • Winner: Anjalee I. Wanasinghe
    Poster presentation: Effects of animal vs plant-based protein in a hypocaloric ketogenic diet on regional subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) T cells in individuals with obesity.
  • Winner: Lyne Al-Nabelsi
    Poster presentation: The relationship of dietary protein to energy metabolism, body composition, and muscle function in individuals undergoing bariatric surgery

2023

The following awards were presented at the Student Health Research Event that took place on May 11.

Emily Carrese-Chacra

Ed Whitlock Award

Winner: Emma Hsiaowen Chen

Emma Hsiaowen is a master's student in the Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology. A former pre-professional dancer, she is interested in how dance can be used to improve the fitness and balance of older adults. Through her work she has received master’s training scholarships from both the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé and the Canadian Institute for Health Research, and she will be continuing to a PhD fellowship at Concordia in September.

Patricia Dudar Award ($500)

  • Winner: Mathieu Johnson
    Presentation title: Behavioural impact of connectome-wide differences in white matter myelination
  • Winner: Paria Asadi
    Presentation title: Vitamin B5, a coenzyme A precursor, rescues TANGO2 deficiency disease-associated defects in Drosophila and human cells

Réseau de recherche en santé cardiométabolique, diabète et obésité (CMDO) Award ($500)

  • Winner: Brandon Kosik
    Poster presentation: Implications of Actovegin on aerobic exercise performance and cardiac mitochondrial respiration in trained and untrained mice
  • Winner: Emma Hsiaowen Chen
    Poster presentation: Online dance classes as fall prevention programming for women aged 65+
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