Congratulations to Stefanie Bradley

Congratulations to CPIN student member Stefanie Bradley (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Tom Chau) on completing the CPIN requirements and graduating from her PhD program. Stefanie completed her doctorate in biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto, conducting her research at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Tom Chau and in close collaboration with Dr. Virginia Wright. Stefanie led an interdisciplinary study evaluating the clinical feasibility of using a lower-limb exoskeleton in outpatient and school-based physiotherapy for children with cerebral palsy. Stefanie’s research has been featured on Canadian news outlets such as CP24 and CBC News, CBC Radio One, and the Globe and Mail. Stefanie has spoken at international conferences that include the European Academy of Childhood-Onset Disability, the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, and been a concurrent session speaker at Empowered Kids Ontario symposium. During her time with CPIN, Stefanie has received significant funding from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation and several pediatric rehabilitation scholarships from Bloorview Research Institute. She has also received numerous awards from the University of Toronto, including a University-Wide PhD Health Science Award and a Pediatric Neuroscience award from the Faculty of Medicine. Stefanie has co-authored a book chapter advocating for brain-computer interface research for children with disabilities and has multiple publications in progress on body-wide outcomes of robotic gait therapy for children with neuromotor disorders.