Dr. Cathy Craven, BA, MD, FRCPC. MSc, FASIA, FCAHS
Board Member
Dr. Craven is the University of Toronto/University Health Network (UHN), Cope Family Chair in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Rehabilitation Health Systems Innovations, Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program, Executive Lead of the Pride in Patient Engagement in Research (PiPER) portfolio at UHN, and Senior Scientist/Neural Engineering and Therapeutics Team Co-Lead at KITE Research Institute. Dr. Craven is a Professor and Clinician Scientist in the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. Her clinical and research expertise is in health services & systems and the medical rehabilitation of sublesional osteoporosis to avoid fractures. Dr. Craven is also the Quality Leader of the SCI Implementation and Evaluation Quality Care Consortium. Outside of work, Dr. Craven chairs the Canadian Spinal Cord Injury – Rehabilitation Association and serves on the Ontario SPOR (Strategy for Patient Oriented Research) SUPPORT Unit Board of Directors.
Dr. Craven has been the recipient of the SCI Ontario Community Builder of the Year Award (2022), fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2021) and American Spinal Injury Association (2019), UofT Division of PM&R Mentor of the Year (2019), ISCD Clinician of the year (2018), and the Canadian Association of PM&R Award of Merit (2017).
Dr. Craven’s publication record includes 260+ peer-reviewed articles, 14 podcasts, 11 online resources, 3 consensus papers, 2 SCI guidelines, and 1 atlas. Her work has earned an h-index of 56, i-10 index of 170, with over 11,500 citations. She has secured over $32M in PI research funding from various organizations including the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Craig H Nielsen Foundation, Ontario Ministry of Health, Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, and the UHN Foundation. For more information about her research, visit her lab website: www.cravenlab.ca
For full publication list see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/beverley.craven.1/bibliography/public
email: cathy.craven@uhn.ca