Susan Hunter, PT PhD

Associate Professor
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Dr. Susan Hunter PT PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She is a Physical Therapist with 34 years of clinical experience and has a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Hunter’s research interests are the rehabilitation of geriatric patients, particularly the cognitively-impaired older adult, and their experience of falls, frailty and mobility decline. She has interests in fall prevention among patient populations of lower extremity amputees, joint arthroplasty and Alzheimer’s disease.

Poster(s):

• ‘Picturing’ accessibility for people with lower limb loss in Canada: a mixed-methods approach to describe the relationship between environmental barriers and quality of life