Physical Therapist and Researcher, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Episodic Disability and Rehabilitation
Joined August 2014
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
May 27
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Keith Fowke @umanitoba as the next Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity.
Welcome, Dr. Fowke!
Learn more: canada.ca/en/institutes-heal…
ALT Welcome! Dr. Keith Fowke - Incoming Scientific Director: CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
May 19
Registration is now open for OSSU Research Day 2026.
Join us on September 23, 2026, in Toronto or virtually for a free event exploring patient-oriented research in action across Ontario.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/ossu2026
#OSSUResearchDay2026 #ResearchInAction
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Abstract submission for the 2026 Amsterdam ISLC-PAIS Conference is entering its final week! Submit your abstracts before 15 May.
islc-pais.org/
The conference (26–29 Aug in Amsterdam) brings together interational PAIS experts, with a summer School and network events.
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Hey everyone. I was invited to write about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and our inclusion into much needed clinical trials.
Please read, like and share? 💙
ctontario.ca/welcoming-myalg…
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
🔔 New in @PLOSONE today
journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Our world-first research shows the Episodic #Disability Questionnaire (EDQ) is a valid and reliable patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) among women living with #HIV, and disability is widely experienced
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 29
For anyone needing to show doubting healthcare professionals what C0VID can do to the body, here is a useful summary publication about the mechanisms behind and pathophysiology of the disease from a team of international experts and lived experience representatives.
Apr 29
After a slight delay.. our new article:
Current status and future perspectives on the mechanistic and pathophysiological understanding of long COVID
Is here: nature.com/articles/s43856-0…
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 21
The long and costly shadow of COVID-19 continues to haunt us. The pandemic will have an impact on our economic and personal health for years to come, by @picardonhealth theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc… via @GlobeDebate
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
Shlomit Rottenberg talking at the #COVIDRehab forum about the type of activity people engage in explains more variation in how activities are
experienced than symptoms or environmental conditions alone
@UofTCOVIDRehab
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Thank you to everyone who attended the #COVIDRehab forum. It was a great day of collaboration.
Have questions or want to learn more? Join us at our Fireside Chat on May 6, 2026 for further discussion. rehabcovidnetwork.med.utoron…
ALT Fireside chat: Burning questions from the 2026 International Forum on COVID Rehabilitation Research - a free online event May 6, 2026.
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Last in the session, Hannah Cowan discusses Navigating fragmented care: How young people with Long Covid build and maintain alternative networks of care. #COVIDrehab
ALT Image of a clinic in the background with many hands holding a web.
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
S. Rottenberg talking at the #COVIDRehab forum about experiences of daily activities like energy restoration,social connection,pleasure,interest,productivity and competence,fluctuate across the day in people with #longCOVID,with
the greatest variability seen in energy restoration
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Monica Busse-Morris shares research on Delivering the LISTEN trial of self-management support across the UK: Methodological challenges and lessons for the future. #COVIDrehab
ALT An image of journal articles with faces embedded within them.
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
Hannah Cowan at the #COVIDRehab forum:
� How young people living with #LongCOVID actively build,navigate and maintain alternative networks of care in response to struggles in accessing fragmented formal care infrastructures in health,education,work and social welfare settings
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
@RobWust speaking at the #COVIDForum
� Exercise intolerance and post-exertional malaise in long COVID and ME/CFS reflect intrinsic
biological dysfunction, not simple deconditioning.
� Skeletal muscle and autonomic dysfunction are central drivers of PEM
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
Lisa Caldana from the #COVIDRehab forum talking about gaps in knowledge translation appear to exist with respect to #LongCOVID and infection-association chronic conditions across all three rehabilitation professions (PT, OT, and SLP)
@UofTCOVIDRehab
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
@RobWust speaking at the #COVIDForum :
📌 Exercise intolerance and post-exertional malaise in #longCOVID and ME/CFS reflect intrinsic biological dysfunction, not simple deconditioning.
📌 Skeletal muscle and autonomic dysfunction are central drivers of PEM
@UofTCOVIDRehab
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
Meera Premnazeer from the #COVIDRehab forum talking about how BrooksCleator et al. (2018)’s model of cultural safety should guide the development of rehabilitation interventions for Indigenous adults with #LongCOVID
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Apr 17
Tim Rhodes talking at the #COVIDRehab forum about a qualitative longitud study among young people navigating #LongCOVID in the UK to explore how young people’s biographies of self and future as well as social worlds alter in relation to experiences of LongCOVID
@UofTCOVIDRehab
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
Lisa Caldana opens up Research Evidence Session 2: Rehabilitation across COVID Care Contexts. She speaks about work on Long COVID and Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions Curricula within Entry-to-Practice Rehabilitation (OT, PT, SLP) Programs in Canada: An Environmental Scan
ALT Photo of a book with the word IACC written on it symbolizing that OT, PT, and SLP curriculum guidelines need to be developed.
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Kelly O'Brien retweeted
📌 Experiences of daily activities, such as energy restoration, social connection, pleasure, interest, productivity and competence, fluctuate across the day in people with long COVID, with the greatest variability seen in energy restoration.
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