Joy MacDermid
Position: Distinguished University ProfessorDegree: BScPT, MSc, PhD
Office: St. Joseph's Health Care, Room DB-222
University office: Room 1440, Elborn College, Western
Phone: 519.646.6100 x 64636 (Hospital)
Phone: 519.661.2111 x 88912 (University)
Fax: 519.646.6049 (Hospital)
E-mail: jmacderm@uwo.ca or joy.macdermid@sjhc.london.on.ca
Joy MacDermid's Google scholar Page, lab website, and PubMed publication list
Research Interests:
-Clinical Measurement: Development and evaluation outcome measurers
-Evidence Syntheses
-Prognostic Profiles and Personalized Surgery and rehabilitation -Clinical, Sex/gender, occupational, personal or environmental factors
-Co-design of face-to-face, online, remote and wearable interventions
-Sex and gender in musculoskeletal disability
-Injured Workers and High demand jobs (e.g. firefighters)
-Knowledge Translation: practice analysis, knowledge interventions, practice guidelines, predictors of knowledge uptake
Joy MacDermid is a physical therapist, hand therapist, epidemiologist and holds a CIHR New Investigator Award. She is Co-director of the Clinical Research Lab within the Roth | McFarlane Hand & Upper Limb Centre (HULC) and also an Associate Professor (School of Rehabilitation Science) at McMaster University. She is cross-appointed to Departments of Surgery and Epidemiology at both McMaster University and Western University. Her research projects address clinical questions related to enhancing prevention, assessment and management of musculoskeletal disorders and related work disability. Specific research interests include: understanding factors that contribute to upper extremity disability surgery and rehabilitation intervention effectiveness, randomized clinical trials/trial methodology, cohort outcomes studies, psychometrics of clinical measurement (performance or self-report, measures of pain/disability/quality-of-life), clinical epidemiology, clinical practice guidelines, and knowledge transfer. Courses developed and taught include upper extremity clinical skills research and evidence-based practice, quality-of-life (measurement/research), knowledge exchange, and transfer.
