Eyes High Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Calgary
Michèle is an avid volunteer as the Founder and Chair of Buds in Bloom, connecting children with varying abilities and families to community, and member of several other Committees, including on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Suicide Prevention. With over 26 years as a clinical paediatric occupational therapist, today, Michèle contributes to local, provincial and national research initiatives at the University of Calgary, as an Eyes High Postdoctoral Scholar, co-creating pathways to access care for children, youth and families. Michèle has held appointments at the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, in teaching and counselling undergraduate and graduate students. Michèle is recognized as a family-centred mixed methods researcher with strong qualitative experience, and quantitative training from epidemiologists and rehabilitation scientists – cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, focus groups, interviews, to name a few. People say that Michèle contributes a community perspective from big picture thinking, and an understanding of system complexity, with an eye for detail. Her commitment is to children and youth with neurodisability and their families’ wellness and wellbeing, through system, community and family capacity-building.
