Lesley Pritchard, PT, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Physical Therapy

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Physical Therapy
Email
lwiart@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-2971
Address
3-60 Corbett (E.A.) Hall
8205 - 114 St NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2G4

Overview

About

Credentials

  • PhD - University of Alberta - 2008
  • MScPT - University of Alberta - 2002
  • BScPT - University of Alberta - 1996



Research

Professional Interests

  • Participation of children with motor disabilities in their schools and communities
  • Families perspectives on rehabilitation service delivery - implications for service delivery and policy
  • Effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions for children with cerebral palsy
  • Pediatric rehabilitation service delivery

Current Research

  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of robotic gait training and gait-focused physical therapy programs for children and youth with cerebral palsy
  • Evaluation of a child-focussed approach to rehabilitation goal setting (The ENGAGE study)

Teaching

Lesley teaches PTHER 563 (Gross Motor Development and Pediatric Physical Therapy) and REHAB 601 (Research Design in Rehabilitation Research)

Courses

REHAB 601 - Research Design in Rehabilitation Science

This course will provide students an overview of methodological approaches in health science and rehabilitation research, including features and issues that impact on research methodology (i.e., design, data collection, and analysis). Students will gain an understanding of the philosophical and theoretical perspectives that underpin quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches in health research.


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Featured Publications

Shanda Duggleby Wenzel, Monique Charest, Lesley Pritchard-Wiart

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 2025 February; 10.1080/17549507.2025.2457408


Elton D. D. Magalhães, Peter Rosenbaum, Marilyn Wright, F. Virginia Wright, Lesley Pritchard, Kennea M. A. Ayupe, Ana Carolina de Campos, Rosane S. Morais, Hercules R. Leite, Paula S. C. Chagas

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 2025 February; 10.1111/dmcn.16042


Valerie Carson, Zhiguang Zhang, Madison Boyd, Lesley Pritchard, Kylie D. Hesketh

Child: Care, Health and Development. 2025 January; 10.1111/cch.70025


Shanda Duggleby Wenzel, Lesley Pritchard-Wiart, Monique Charest

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 2024 December; 10.1080/17549507.2024.2438080


Pegah Firouzeh, Christopher Morris, Lyn K. Sonnenberg, Patricia Manns, Lesley Pritchard

Disability and Rehabilitation. 2024 December; 10.1080/09638288.2024.2435516


Pegah Firouzeh, Christopher Morris, Lyn K. Sonnenberg, Patricia Manns, Lesley Pritchard

Disability and Rehabilitation. 2024 May; 10.1080/09638288.2023.2218651


Danielle Johnston, Lesley Pritchard, Erin Branton, Douglas P. Gross, Sandy Thompson-Hodgetts

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 2023 July; 10.1097/DBP.0000000000001200


Lesley Pritchard, Katherine S. Bright, Catharine M. Walsh, Susan Samuel, Queenie K. W. Li, Krista Wollny, Marinka Twilt, Lianne Tomfohr‐Madsen, Linda Pires, Gina Dimitropoulos

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2023 February; 10.1111/jep.13719


Lesley Pritchard-Wiart, Sandy Thompson-Hodgetts, Ashley B. McKillop, Rhonda Rosychuk, Kelly Mrklas, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Jennifer Zwicker, John Andersen, Gillian King, Pegah Firouzeh

BMC Pediatrics. 2022 December; 10.1186/s12887-022-03381-4


Karen Hurtubise, Isabelle Gaboury, Jade Berbari, Marie-Claude Battista, Tibor Schuster, Michelle Phoenix, Peter Rosenbaum, Olaf Kraus De Camargo, Stacey Lovo, Lesley Pritchard-Wiart, Jill G Zwicker, Audrée Jeanne Beaudoin, Mélanie Morin, Thomas Poder, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Geneviève Roch, Danielle Levac, Michel Tousignant, Heather Colquhoun, Kimberly Miller, Jennifer Churchill, Paula Robeson, Andréa Ruegg, Martine Nault, Chantal Camden

JMIR Research Protocols. 2022 October; 10.2196/40218


Lesley Pritchard

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 2022 September; 10.1111/dmcn.15306


Karen Hurtubise, Isabelle Gaboury, Jade Berbari, Marie-Claude Battista, Tibor Schuster, Michelle Phoenix, Peter Rosenbaum, Olaf Kraus De Camargo, Stacey Lovo, Lesley Pritchard-wiart, Jill Zwicker, Mélanie Morin, Thomas Poder, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Geneviève Roch, Danielle Levac, Michel Tousignant, Heather Colquhoun, Kimberly Miller, Jennifer Churchill, Paula Robeson, Andréa Ruegg, Martine Nault

2022 July; 10.2196/preprints.40218


Lesley Pritchard, Olaf Verschuren, Michelle Roy, Cara Kaup, Dax G. Rumsey

Arthritis Care & Research. 2022 April; 10.1002/acr.24492


Paula S. C. Chagas, Peter Rosenbaum, F. Virginia Wright, Lesley Pritchard, Marilyn Wright, Aline Martins Toledo, Ana Cristina R Camargos, Egmar Longo, Hercules R. Leite

Physiotherapy Canada. 2022 March; 10.3138/ptc-2021-0006


Zhiguang Zhang, Madison Predy, Nicholas Kuzik, Lyndel Hewitt, Kylie D Hesketh, Lesley Pritchard, Anthony D. Okely, Valerie Carson

Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science. 2022 January; 10.1080/1091367X.2021.1941033


Nevin Hammam, Harald Becher, John Andersen, Patricia J. Manns, Jackie L. Whittaker, Lesley Pritchard

Disability and Health Journal. 2021 October; 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101112


Felipe Ganz, Nevin Hammam, Lesley Pritchard

Disability and Rehabilitation. 2021 September; 10.1080/09638288.2020.1723720


Keiko Shikako, Ebele R I Mogo, Valerie Grand-Maison, Robert Simpson, Lesley Pritchard-Wiart, Annette Majnemer

JMIR Formative Research. 2021 September; 10.2196/23877


BMC Pediatrics. 2019 December; 10.1186/s12887-019-1542-3


Disability and Rehabilitation. 2019 June; 10.1080/09638288.2019.1631394


The Physician and Sportsmedicine. 2019 June; 10.1080/00913847.2019.1623995


Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics. 2019 May; 10.1080/01942638.2019.1585403


Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics. 2019 May; 10.1080/01942638.2019.1609151


Clinical Rehabilitation. 2019 May; 10.1177/0269215519846220


Clinical Rehabilitation. 2018 July; 10.1177/0269215518758484


Leadership in Health Services. 2018 May; 10.1108/lhs-08-2017-0046


Health Promotion Perspectives. 2018 April; 10.15171/hpp.2018.19


Pritchard-Wiart, L. Phelan, S.K.

Clinical Rehabilitation. 2018 January; 13 (1):p.954-966


Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2017 October; 10.1080/10401334.2017.1301817


Early Human Development. 2017 October; 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2017.07.006


BMC Neurology. 2016 December; 10.1186/s12883-016-0582-7


Pritchard-Wiart, L., Bragg, E., Hodgetts, S.

Clinical Rehabilitation.


Verschuren, O., Gorter, J.W., Pritchard-Wiart, L.

Early Human Development. 113


Wiart, L., Rosychuk, R.J., Wright.V.

BMC Neurology. 16 (86)


Bragg, E. Pritchard-Wiart, L.

Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics..


Pritchard-Wiart, Thompson-Hodgetts, S., McKillop, A.

Clinical Rehabilitation.


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