Phone: (905) 525-9140 ext: 27811
Fax: (905) 524-0069
Office: Rm.443, IAHS
Email: jrichard@mcmaster.ca
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Julie Richardson is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University and teaches in the MSc(PT) program. She has a Masters degree in Psychology (Otago, NZ) and a PhD in Public Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from the University of Toronto.

She is presently Unit Chair V (Community Health/Community Practice) and co-coordinator in the Neurology Unit. Her areas of expertise in teaching are: Community Health, chronic illness, aging, and neurology.

Her research interests include measurement and intervention issues to promote mobility and lower-extremity functioning in older adults as well as risk factor assessment for decline of mobility and functioning with aging and the health transitions that older persons undergo in the process of disablement. She is interested in these issues at a clinical and population level.

Her research has involved a randomized clinical trial of persons from a Day Hospital setting to receive rehabilitation in a simulated or traditional environment, measurement studies of identified fallers, and assessment of risk factors for preclinical disability in community dwelling older persons.

She is also works in the area of chronic illness prevention and management.

She has recently completed several projects around primary care – one a randomized controlled trial which examined the effect of a rehabilitation intervention including chronic disease self management for persons with chronic illness on health status and health service utilization and the other a research synthesis, Rehabilitation in Primary Care: National and International Examples and Training Requirements.

Finally she is also interested in secondary data analysis to answer population based research questions – her PhD thesis was Predictors of Functional Transitions and Disability-Free Life Expectancy with Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease using the Established Populations of the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly and she recently completed a project looking at the unmet needs for devices and supports for adults with disabilities using the PALS data.

Taking Graduate Students

Currently taking new graduate students.

Lab/Research Institute

Member of the MAP research group

Courses Taught

MSc PT, McMaster University

2002-present
Unit Chair - Unit V Community Health/Community Practice Course Coordinator
Tutor – Problem-Based Tutorials – CHS721
Course Coordinator – CHS 712

2008-present
Research and Evidence-Based Practice PT713

Rehabilitation Science Graduate Program

2008 – present
Research Methods in Rehabilitation Science RS707

Recent Research

Funding Agency: Ontario Research Coalition of Research Institutes/ Centres of Health and Aging
Funding Amount: $15,000
Funding Period: Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Project Title: Maintaining autonomy as we age: Investigating the application of a strategy training approach for ameliorating the effects of age-related executive dysfunction.
Investigators: Dawson, D., Richardson, J.

Funding Agency: Hamilton Health Sciences New Investigator Fund
Funding Amount: $8,700
Funding Period: Jan 2009 – Jan 2020
Project Title: Home after hospital occupational Therapy
Investigators: Douglas, A., Zagrodski, D., Letts, L., Richardson, J., Eva, K., & Patterson, C.

Funding Agency: CIHR
Funding Amount: $242, 800
Funding Period: 2009-2012
Project Title: Identification of Risk Activity Transition Following a Distal Radius Fracture.
Investigators: MacDermid J., Crewal, R., MacIntyre, N., Richardson, J.

Funding Agency: Ontario Stroke Strategy
Funding Amount: $142, 800
Funding Period: 2009-2010
Project Title: Rehabilitation in the home environment: A knowledge transfer project to implement best practice and ensure continuity of care with stroke..
Investigators: Richardson, J., De Paul, Letts, L., Bosch, J. Wishart, L., Wilkins, S., Jack, S., Moreland, J.

Funding Agency: Ontario Neurotrauma for Ontario Rehabilitation Research Advisory Network (ORRAN)
Funding Amount: $80,000
Funding Period: 2008-2009
Project Title: I Am Able: Population Based Rehabilitation in a Family Health Team.
Investigators: Richardson J, Letts, L, Chan, D., Wojkowski, S., Moore, A., McCarthy, L., Price, D., Kinzie, S., Oliver, D.

Funding Agency: Health Force Canada
Funding Amount: $158,208
Funding Period: 2008-2009
Project Title: Development of a Community Scholar program: an Interprofessional Initiative
Investigators: Richardson J, Letts, L, Semogaz, D., Guenter, D., Price, D., Childs, A., Johnson, P., Smith, B., Taylor, M.

Funding Agency: Ontario Neurotrauma for Ontario Rehabilitation Research Advisory Network (ORRAN)
Funding Amount: $6,000
Funding Period: 2008-2009
Project Title: Physiotherapy in primary care for adults with Chronic Illness – a policy analysis about equity,
access to services and health status.
Investigators: Wojkowski, S., Richardson J.