Profile
Julie Richardson is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University and teaches in the MSc(PT) program. She has a Masters degree in Psychology (Otago, NZ) and a PhD in Public Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from the University of Toronto.
She is presently Unit Chair V (Community Health/Community Practice) and co-coordinator in the Neurology Unit. Her areas of expertise in teaching are: Community Health, chronic illness, aging, and neurology.
Her research interests include measurement and intervention issues to promote mobility and lower-extremity functioning in older adults as well as risk factor assessment for decline of mobility and functioning with aging and the health transitions that older persons undergo in the process of disablement. She is interested in these issues at a clinical and population level.
Her research has involved a randomized clinical trial of persons from a Day Hospital setting to receive rehabilitation in a simulated or traditional environment, measurement studies of identified fallers, and assessment of risk factors for preclinical disability in community dwelling older persons.
She is also works in the area of chronic illness prevention and management.
She has recently completed several projects around primary care – one a randomized controlled trial which examined the effect of a rehabilitation intervention including chronic disease self management for persons with chronic illness on health status and health service utilization and the other a research synthesis, Rehabilitation in Primary Care: National and International Examples and Training Requirements. Finally she is also interested in secondary data analysis to answer population based research questions – her PhD thesis was Predictors of Functional Transitions and Disability-Free Life Expectancy with Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease using the Established Populations of the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly and she recently completed a project looking at the Unmet needs for devices and supports for adults with disabilities using the PALS data.
Taking Graduate Students
Currently taking new graduate students.
Lab/Research Institute
Member of the MAP research group
Courses Taught
MSc PT, McMaster University
2003/2004
Unit Chair Unit V Community Health/Community Practice
Course Coordinator & Tutor- Problem-Based Tutorials- CHS721
Course Co-Coordinator -CHS712
2002/2003
Unit Chair Unit V Community Health/Community Practice
Course Coordinator & Tutor- Problem-Based Tutorials- CHS721
Course Co-Coordinator -CHS712
Recent Research
Funding Agency: Ontario Neurotrauma for Ontario Rehabilitation Research Advisory Network (ORRAN)
Funding Amount: $80,000
Funding Period: 2008-2009
Project Title: I Am Able: Population Based Rehabilitation in a Family Health Team.
Investigators: Richardson J, Letts, L, Chan, D., Wojkowski, S., Moore, A., McCarthy, L., Price, D., Kinzie, S., Oliver, D.
Funding Agency: Health Force Canada
Funding Amount: $158,208
Funding Period: 2008-2009
Project Title: Development of a Community Scholar program: an Interprofessional Initiative
Investigators: Richardson J, Letts, L, Semogaz, D., Guenter, D., Price, D., Childs, A., Johnson, P., Smith, B., Taylor, M.
Funding Agency: Ontario Neurotrauma for Ontario Rehabilitation Research Advisory Network (ORRAN)
Funding Amount: $6,000
Funding Period: 2008-2009
Project Title: Development of a Community Scholar program: an Interprofessional Initiative
Investigators: Wojkowski, S., Richardson J.
Funding Agency: Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Funding Amount: $21,360
Funding Period: 2007
Project Title: Requirements and Unmet Needs for Aids, Devices and Supports for People with Agility/Mobility Impairments
Investigators: Richardson J, Letts, L, Wilton R, Stewart, D, Law, M.
Funding Agency: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care-Stroke Strategy
Funding Amount: $147,850
Funding Period: 2006 -2008
Project Title: A Motor Learning Walking Program versus Body weight supported Training in Community Dwelling Adults within Six Months of Stroke Onset: A randomised controlled Trial Investigators: De Paul, V., Wishart L, Richardson J., Lee, T., Moreland, J.
Funding Agency: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Funding Amount: $75,000
Funding Period: 2005 - 2006
Project Title: Rehabilitation in Primary Care: National and International Experiences and Training Requirements
Investigators: Richardson J, Letts, L, Wishart L, Stewart D, Law M.
Funding Agency: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Funding Amount: $669,901
Funding Period: 2004 - 2006
Project Title: Rehabilitation in Primary Care -A Project to Maximise the Health Status of Adults with Chronic Illness
Investigators: Letts, L, Richardson J, (co principle Investigators), Baptiste S, Edwards M, Coman, L. Price D. Hilts, L. Stratford, P. Law M. |