Dr. Erin Mccabe

Biography

Erin McCabe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Alberta, focusing on patient-reported outcome measures, implementation science, and psychometrics within child and adolescent mental health services in rehabilitation contexts. She obtained her PhD in Rehabilitation Science in 2021 from the University of Alberta, where she developed a validated patient-reported experience measure for therapeutic relationships in physiotherapy. Her research emphasizes the significance of measuring health outcomes from the patient perspective to effectively implement patient-reported outcome experience measures in health systems. With a clinical background across various settings, McCabe returned to academia motivated by the desire to improve access to rehabilitation services through evidence-based approaches. She has been awarded the CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship and is actively engaged in training programs aiming to enhance health systems research and patient engagement strategies. McCabe also contributes to the scholarly community through her publications, which focus on systematic reviews and studies in pediatric health. Her work aims to enrich the understanding of effective treatment models, particularly for children and adolescents receiving rehabilitation services, and she advocates for equity in access to these services through her research initiatives.

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