Angela Colantonio

Dr. Angela Colantonio, PhD, OT Reg.(Ont.), FCAHS, FACRM is the Director of the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. She holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Traumatic Brain Injury in Underserved Populations and was the recipient of the Saunderson Family Chair in Acquired Brain Injury and a CIHR Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health. She has authored over 300 publications and has received numerous distinctions including the JJ Berry Davis Doctoral Supervision Award for outstanding graduate student supervision. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the American College of Epidemiology and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Areas of Research / Educational Scholarship

Dr. Colantonio leads the internationally recognized Acquired Brain Injury Research Lab at the University of Toronto and the KITE Research Institute-University Health Network which benefits from the contributions of outstanding trainees/scientists and community based partners. Her research aims to address traumatic brain injury, a leading cause in death and disability, in underserved populations such as persons who have experienced homelessness, the justice system and brain injury through violence including intimate partner violence with a sex and gender lens.