Diana Zidarov, PhD
Diana Zidarov is a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. She is an associate member of the School of Physical and Occupational therapy at McGill University and project co-director of Edith Strauss Rehabilitation Research Projects. She has worked as a physical therapist for more than 15 year while completing a M.Sc. in Rehabilitation Science in 2008 and a PhD in 2015 at the School of Public Health at University of Montreal, Canada. As an experienced clinician, Diana has an extensive background in assessing and treating individuals with musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. Diana has conducted research in outcome measurement in rehabilitation settings and implementation of innovations and knowledge translation strategies. Her current research focuses on the development and implementation of quality indicators for the management of chronic pain and the implementation of web-based patient reported outcomes (PROs) for persons with spinal cord injury.
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Ms. Zidarov has developed expertise and interests in the field of knowledge translation strategies, organization of rehabilitation care and services, and implementation of best practices.
As an institutional researcher at theInstitut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM) of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (CCSMTL), she will develop a scientific program that not only aligns with the IURDPM and CRIR research program, but that also meets the priorities and clinical needs of the institute. More concretely, she will coordinate the design and implementation of research projects, dissemination of the research findings, and optimization of the results among different partners and target audiences. She will also contribute to university education.
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