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  • Rehab Med alumnus receives Malaysian teaching award

    Here at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine we boast impressive alumni, every graduate an ambassador for rehabilitation and improving quality of life for Albertans and beyond. International alumnus Ai Choo Lee is focusing on the beyond. After graduating from the University of Alberta with a PhD in Rehabilitation Science in 2007, Lee returned to Malaysia and founded the country’s first and only Bachelor of Sports Rehabilitation program.

  • Music in Motion 2011 raises more than $500,000 for bone and joint health in Alberta

    The event raised more than $500,000 for bone and joint related research in Alberta, with $172,000 to support bone and joint-related clinical research fellowships at the U of A.

  • Rehab Med Students are Heroes for Health

    Six Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine students are taking home silver in the 2011 Heroes for Health challenge after developing a mental health website to help students experiencing depression, stress, burnout, and financial worry. Arnold Wong, Brea Chouinard, Jiajie Wu, Junichi Tajino, Liliana Alvarez Jaramillo and Martha Funabashi are part of a 17-person interdisciplinary team that worked on the project.

  • Sex is for everyone, including people with disabilities

    Can people in wheelchairs have sex? Rudy and Donna Cornet say yes. Donna has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair to get around. Her husband has brain damage after getting hit by a van in 1988. “You think that because you’re in a wheelchair or you’re disabled that your sex life’s over - not true,” says Rudy. The couple is featured on SexAbility, a one-hour documentary that Shaniff Esmail, a University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, helped put together alongside Kelly Falardeau, burn survivor and best-selling author.

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