Lisa Boivin

Prof. Boivin is a member of the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation in Denendeh (Northwest Territories). She completed her PhD at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute in Temerty Medicine at the University of Toronto.

She has authored and illustrated chapters in several medical, arts and humanities textbooks. Her work aims to humanize clinical medicine as she situates her art in the Indigenous continuum of passing knowledge through images. Her visual and written work has been featured in Theresa Tam’s final public health report, Working Together to Thrive: Well-Being and Public Health.

Through the March of Dimes Canada Paul J.J. Martin Early Career Professorship, Prof. Boivin will use arts-based research to reimagine rehabilitation science education, with a focus on occupational therapy, from an Indigenous perspective. Her priority is to continue developing culturally safe curricula that is accessible to everyone, but most importantly, community members, clients and patients.