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2021 SMA Conference Keynote Speaker – Professor Carolyn Emery

Jun 16, 2021

Carolyn Emery PT PhD completed her PhD in Epidemiology (UAlberta 2004), MSc in Epidemiology (UCalgary 1998) and BSc in Physiotherapy (Queen’s U 1988). She is a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Cumming School of Medicine at UCalgary. Carolyn is the Chair of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre at UCalgary.

Carolyn is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1 Concussion), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Christensen Fellow at the University of Oxford, and member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars. Carolyn’s research program focuses on the prevention of concussions and injuries and their consequences, aiming to reduce the public health burden of injuries and their consequences in youth sport and recreation. She leads the pan-Canadian SHRed Concussions Research Program (National Football League Play Safe Play Smart.

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