Scientific Associate II
University Health Network, Canada
My name is Dr. Lisa Cotie. I am a Scientific Associate II at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (University Health Network) in Toronto. I have a PhD in Kinesiology and I am a Registered Kinesiologist. I am a Clinical Exercise Physiologist: High Performance Specialist with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. I completed a post doctoral fellowship in women's heart health at the Canadian Women's Heart Health Centre at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. My areas of research interest include 1.) knowledge, awareness and lifestyle interventions after complications of pregnancy (i.e., hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, gestational diabetes, pre-term birth, etc.), 2.) women's cardiac rehabilitation participation and 3.) the use of eHealth technologies (i.e., wearables, Smartphone apps, e-learning, virtual care, etc.) in the cardiac rehabilitation environment.