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Angela Colantonio, PhD, OT, FCAHS, FACRM 

University of Toronto
Director of the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute @abiresearchlab

Dr. Angela Colantonio is the Director of the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health. She is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN. Dr. Colantonio leads a broad, internationally recognized program of research on acquired brain injury (ABI) that includes a major focus on women and sex/gender analyses.  She has authored over 200 publications and has presented to over 400 research, clinical and lay audiences.

Dr. Colantonio co-leads an international task force on Girls/Women with ABI and serves on the Board of Brain Injury Canada. She is a Fellow of American College of Epidemiology, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2015, she was awarded the Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation.