Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Sarah Munce, MSc, PhD
Implementation Scientist, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Bloorview Research Institute
Assistant Professor (status), Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI), University of Toronto
Affiliate Scientist, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network
Graduate Coordinator, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto
Dr. Munce’s program of research relates to the co-development, implementation, and evaluation of transitional care interventions (eg, peer support, self-management, peer navigation) for youth with complex needs and their family members. She uses mixed methods, implementation science, co-design, and integrated knowledge translation/patient engagement approaches to carry out this research program. Dr. Munce has served as an Academic Editor and Guest Editor at two other journals before she joined JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies as the Editor-in-Chief. She looks forward to working with the Editorial Board members and the JMIR team to promote the visibility of JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies and ensure the publication of highly relevant and rigorous research.
Dr. Munce is a health services research and implementation scientist at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Bloorview Research Institute. She is also an Assistant Professor (status) at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto with a cross-appointment at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI). Dr. Munce is the former Membership Chair for the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA). She completed her PhD in Health Services Research-Outcomes and Evaluation with a Knowledge Translation specialization designation from the IHPME at the University of Toronto in 2014. She completed her post-doctoral training at the KITE Research Institute, specializing in mixed methods research and implementation science in the rehabilitation context.
Rajitha Sivakumaran, BSc (Hons), MA, Managing Editor
Editorial Board Members
Associate Editors
Brooke Allemang, PhD
Research Fellow, SickKids Research Institute, Canada
Dr. Allemang is a registered social worker and holds a PhD in Social Work focused on the pediatric-adult transition readiness of youth with co-occurring chronic health and mental health conditions. She is a recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Patient-Oriented Research Transition to Leadership Fellowship with expertise in qualitative methods, patient-oriented research, mixed methods research, arts-based methods, including digital storytelling, and clinical social work with youth and their families in hospital and community-based settings.
Alessandro Scano, PhD
Researcher, Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing - National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Dr. Scano is a bioengineer who graduated from Politecnico di Milano and has been working since 2011 for the Italian National Research Council as a researcher in the biomedical field. His main area of expertise concerns the study of motor control and the design of novel algorithms based on the synergistic approach, with applications especially in the field of rehabilitation, including robots and assistive technologies. He has authored approximately 60 indexed contributions (with 40+ in journals with impact factors) and has participated in many national and international projects.
Kristina Kokorelias, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Kokorelias works as the Senior Academic Program Coordinator for the Department of Medicine’s Healthy Ageing and Geriatrics Program at Sinai Health and the University Health Network. In her role, Dr. Kokorelias helps to oversee the academic outcomes of the program by contributing to the operations, teaching, leadership, quality improvement, and health services research to help improve the quality of care for older adults and their caregivers. Kristina also has status appointments as Associate Scientist (Sinai Health) and Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto. Her program of research aims to understand the experiences and needs of family caregivers and older adults with complex care needs with the aim of using this information to develop, evaluate, and implement timely family-centered care programs and services. Her other research interests include advancing models of integrated care, sex and gender-based differences in family caregiving, and health care utilization patterns amongst diverse patient populations. Kristina aims to work closely with the end users of her research so that the programs that are developed through research are in line with the goals and objectives of existing health and social care service delivery models.
Boris Schmitz, PhD
Chief Scientist, Chair of Rehabilitation Sciences, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Dr. Schmitz research interests and experience focus on cardiac rehabilitation and prevention using telemedicine and eHealth solutions. He also investigates the medical rehabilitation of patients with Post/Long-COVID-19. He is the initiator of the Horizon2020 project TIMELY (https://www.timely-project.com) and scientific advisor to BIOTRONIK for eHealth solutions. Dr. Schmitz is a designated member of the Faculty of Health Research Board at Witten/Herdecke University.
Alfonso Mastropietro, PhD
Researcher, Institute for Biomedical Technologies (ITB) – CNR, Italy
Dr. Mastropietro has been a bioengineer and researcher at the Italian National Research Council since 2017. He has a PhD in Bioengineering from the Polytechnic of Milan and has experience in preclinical and clinical studies using MRI and EEG techniques. His main research interests include MRI quantitative medical imaging, biomedical image analysis, diffusion MRI, advanced MRI techniques, preclinical MRI, molecular imaging, biomedical signal analysis, EEG, central nervous system, stroke, skeletal muscle, rehabilitation, and cognitive load.
Urvashy Gopaul, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Canada
Dr. Gopaul's research interests and experience focus on upper limb rehabilitation of motor and sensory functions using clinical approaches combined with rehabilitation technologies in neurological populations.
Jack Zhang, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Dr. Zhang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at PolyU. His research focuses on the utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation, multimodal neurophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques to uncover recovery mechanisms in neurological and psychiatric conditions, aiming to optimize rehabilitation outcomes. He is passionate about applying innovative neural technologies, including closed-loop brain-computer interfaces, in experimental translational rehabilitation research.
Past Editorial Board Members
Maurice Mulvenna, BSc, MPhil, PhD, Professor, Ulster University, United Kingdom