Dr. Ben Mortenson Research

Join @canadabadminton at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club on Thursday, July 25 from 3-5 pm to try out this fun and inclusive sport! For more info go to badminton.ca/page/40825/Par…

Exploring the social determinants of health from the perspective of people with #SCI: new #Disability studies paper co-authored by @AlfiyaBatta @HailsThomasFord @hchaudhu Ben Mortenson and more! Published in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

We are so proud of Dr. Ben! 🎉

📕Living through the #Pandemic with a #Disability: A Longitudinal #QualitativeStudy New paper published in Disabilities, ✍️by @_janice_c @Somayyyeh @ElhamEsfandiari @jy_schmidt @mortensonlab @bcmiller1961 Free full-text👉mdpi.com/2673-7272/3/3/… @UBCOSOT @GFStrongRRP @ICORD_SCI

Celebrating Dr. Ben Mortenson and all of this year's @UBCmedicine 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award recipients! 🥳

Proud of our PI @jy_schmidt and Nanaimo #Brain #Injury Society (NBIS) in receiving one of these awards: Extending the Collaboration of Brain Injury Community Associations and Researchers

@jonvhernandez @InclusiveMAP @CBCStephenQuinn We will reach out via email!

@mortensonlab @InclusiveMAP @CBCStephenQuinn Thanks for letting us know. Are you able to touch base over e-mail? I'm at jon.hernandez@cbc.ca

At @InclusiveMAP we're traveling w/ disabled people as they use cycle lanes (w/ wheeled mobility devices & cycles) in metro Van. They tell us interactions w/cyclists are a concern in several ways. @jonvhernandez/@CBCStephenQuinn we'd love to talk to you about what we're learning!

Interested in helping make #parks more #accessible to visitors with disabilities? The PARCOURS project is looking for volunteers to identify and rank potential standards for natural parks by completing a series of online #surveys. parkaccessforall.ca @mortensonlab

OSOT trainees & faculty @NiloufarBenam, @bcmiller1961, @RehabTao, @mortensonlab & @jy_schmidt published in @Disabil_MDPI on loneliness among older adults and those w/ disabilities after COVID-19 restrictions mdpi.com/2673-7272/3/1/1 @GFStrongRRP @VCHResearch @CEDAR_BrainLab #OT365

OSOT Associate Professor @mortensonlab, postdoctoral fellow @NolwennLapierre et al. published on the provision of services to persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Health & Social Care in the Community onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hs… @InclusiveMAP @GFStrongRRP #OT365

Meet this year's ICORD Trainee Committee (ITC), as well as our feature of two past ITC members who are now postdoctoral fellows: Drs. Diana Hunter and Raza Malik both spent multiple years as ITC executives while completing their PhDs at ICORD. #ITC" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">icord.org/icordian-late-…

Congrats to the Granville Lab for receiving an award from the CIHR Institute of Aging given to the institute's highest-ranked grant application! 👏 This grant and award will fund their studies on the role of Granzyme B in triggering aging-related itch. #dr-granville" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">icord.org/icordian-late-…

“Perception of #autonomy among people who use wheeled #mobility assistive devices: Dependence on the type of wheeled #AssistiveTechnology” by Mahsa Khalili, Chelsea Jonathan, Nicole Hocking, @hfmvdl, @mortensonlab & Jaimie F. Borisoff. @ubcmech tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Latest paper from our lab in collaboration with @AbilitiesCentre & @CanDisParPro in Disabilities | Special Issue : Disability and COVID-19 edited by @bcmiller1961 & @mortensonlab mdpi.com/journal/disabi… 👏 @CameronMGee @FHoekstra_Groot @UbedaColomer

An international team including OSOT faculty Dr. Laura Nimmon (@ubcMedCHES), @ot_michael, and Dr. Tal Jarus (@UBC_RBT), @mortensonlab postdoc @AlfiyaBatta, UBC Accessibility Advisor @LYBOT, and @terry_krupa (@QueensSRT) published in @advhlthsciedu link.springer.com/article/10.100… #OT365

Check out these calming, gentle, plot-free videos created to engage people with dementia & other conditions that may make typical media content overwhelming. @UBC_IDEALab is studying the videos' feasibility to promote health for their target audiences! zinniatv.com

We love working with Farinaz on our PARCOURS and @InclusiveMAP Cycle Lane projects!

To keep your privacy and confidentiality, please do not comment on this post. Instead, DM us or email us at mortenson.lab@ubc.ca to learn more about our exciting study! Interacting with this post (e.g., like or comment) may connect you with the study.

If you are: a person with a disability, 19 years of age or older, a cyclist and/or a wheeled mobility device user, and live in Metro Vancouver, please contact us to learn more! You can also find more details at inclusivemap.ca/our-projects/.

Interested in improving the cycle lane experience of wheeled mobility device users & disabled cyclists? We are looking for disabled participants in Metro Vancouver who use a mobility device and/or a regular/adapted cycles for an interview and/or cycle lane trip.