Easing the Strain of Movement Disorders: From Translational and Clinical Science to Rehabilitation Strategies

Abstract

Quincy Almeida is the Director of the Sun Life Financial Movement Disorders Research and Rehabilitation Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University (ON, Canada), one the world’s leading authorities on movement science and rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease (PD). His research has been featured in the Toronto Star, the Globe & Mail, on CBC and CTV national news as well as features in Maclean’s magazine. He has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and by a multimillion dollar grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and his innovative research on PD has won several awards, including the Franklin Henry Young Scientist Award for motor control in Canada, and the Parkinson’s Society of Canada Young Investigator’s Award. More recently, he received the Polanyi Prize for Physiology and Medicine, the Queen Elizabeth’s II Diamond Jubilee medal in January 2013, and in June 2013 Almeida gave a keynote when he was honored with a North American Award, the Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award from the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity organization at a conference in New Orleans (LA, USA). Almeida has spoken about his novel approach to understanding PD across the world, including in France, Italy, Brazil, Ireland, Norway, Australia and The Netherlands.