Contact
Professor, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Physical Therapy
- lwiart@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-2971
- Address
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3-60 Corbett (E.A.) Hall
8205 - 114 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 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.
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
Reproducibility of the Six‐Minute Walk Test in Children and Youth With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
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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