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Jodie is a PhD Student in the UBC’s Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences (WACH) Program under the co-supervision of Dr. Brotto (UBC SHR) and Dr McLean (UOttawa MFM). She has been a practicing physiotherapist in Vancouver since 2012, working in multidisciplinary care in maternal and pelvic health and persistent pain. Jodie is in the Clinical Faculty in the UBC Physiotherapy Department and a regular Guest Lecturer in the UBC Midwifery Department. She serves as the Chair of the Physiotherapy Association’s Scope of Practice Committee, is the Western Allied Health Director At Large for the Canadian Society for Pelvic Medicine and is on the Quality Assurance and Standards of Practice Committees for the College of Health and Care Professionals of British Columbia. Jodie has supported the VIVID and SHAPE projects as a clinical expert and knowledge user.
Jodie is excited to re-enter academia as a CIHR Doctoral Award recipient seeking to BRIDGE the gap between research and clinical practice as she explores physiotherapy practices for persistent pelvic pain – including multimodal physiotherapy treatments, sexual health education and clinician enablers and barriers to implementation.