University of Calgary

Carolyn Emery

  • Professor
  • Full Time Faculty

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Dr. Carolyn Emery is a physiotherapist and epidemiologist. She completed her BSc in Physiotherapy at Queens University in 1988 and after several years of practice in pediatric rehabilitation and sport medicine, Dr. Emery completed her MSc in Epidemiology (Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Calgary in 1999 and obtained her PhD in Epidemiology (Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine) from the University of Alberta in 2004. She was recruited to the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary in 2004. Dr. Emery is a Professor (with tenure) in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. She holds joint appointments in Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Emery is a member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, O’Brien Institute of Public Health, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the McCaig Institute of Bone and Joint Health.

The focus of Dr. Emery’s research program is in injury prevention in youth sport and recreation, concussion, and pediatric rehabilitation; aimed to reduce the public health burden of injury including long-term consequences (e.g. overweight/obesity, post-traumatic osteoarthritis, post-concussion syndrome). She holds a Chair in Pediatric Rehabilitation (Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute) and is Chair of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre (1 of 10 International Olympic Committee Research Centres in Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport) at the University of Calgary. She leads "SHRed Injuries: Preventing Injuries and their Consequences in Youth Sport and Recreation" (CIHR) and "SHRed Concussions-Surveillance in High Schools to Reduce the Risk of Concussions and their Concequences: (NFL Scientific Advisor Board). Dr. Emery was inducted as a Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow and she is a Royal Society of Canada New Scholar.

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