Keynote speakers: Community integration: Relevance for robotics

Dr. Angela Colantonio is a Senior Research Scientist at Toronto Rehab, where she holds the Saunderson Family Chair in Acquired Brain Injury Research. She is also a Professor of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canadian Institute for Health Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health. She leads an internationally recognized program of research on acquired brain injury (ABI) that includes examination of ABI in the population for both injury prevention and post acute care purposes, with a special focus on vulnerable populations. Other areas of Dr. Colantonio's research program include long term outcomes, sex- and genderrelated issues, and innovative approaches to intervention, such as the use of theatre as a knowledge mobilization strategy. She has over 160 publications and has received funding from numerous agencies in both the United States and Canada.