Meet our Faculty
Brenna Bath
Brenna Bath joined the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Physical Therapy faculty in September 2011. Brenna completed her BScPT at the U of S in 1998, her MSc in 2006 and has just successfully defended her PhD. She obtained her Diploma of Advanced Manipulative Physiotherapy in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapists. She has prior clinical experience in public and private outpatient orthopaedic settings. Brenna has been a clinical faculty member at the School since 2007 and has taught in musculoskeletal, research methods and professional practice courses. She is coordinating/ teaching Musculoskeletal IV and Professional Practice IV in the MPT program.
In her doctoral research, funded by a CIHR fellowship, Brenna is using a biopsychosocial framework to evaluate multidimensional participant and primary care provider outcomes as well as predictors of success associated with a spinal triage assessment program delivered by physiotherapists in collaboration with orthopaedic surgeons. In this project Brenna is also examining the concordance between physiotherapists and surgeons with respect to diagnosis and management recommendations. Outside of her PhD work Brenna is exploring patterns of primary health care utilization and equity of care access among people with chronic back conditions in Canada. Her planned program of research will focus on neuromusculoskeletal conditions and encompass the following inter-related themes: differential diagnosis, interprofessional collaborative models of care, access to health services (related to wait times and rural residence) and knowledge translation.
Her teaching areas at the school are beginning with Musculoskeletal 4 and Professional Practice 4.
Stephanie Madil
Stéphanie J. Madill
Ph.D. (Queen’s University), M.Sc. (Queen’s University), B.Sc. (PT) (UniversityofAlberta)
Stéphanie Madill joined the faculty of the School in July 2011, coming from Montreal where she recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship under the direction of Dr. Chantale Dumoulin at the University of Montreal. She defended her Ph.D. in September 2009. The topic of research was to describe the biomechanical differences in pelvic floor closure between women with and without stress urinary incontinence, and the effects of pelvic floor rehabilitation on pelvic floor muscle function in older women with stress incontinence. In addition to pelvic floor biomechanics, her research interests include incontinence in special populations and wound care.
Stéphanie has worked in long-term care, inpatient rehab, home health, prisons and schools in Lloydminster, Alberta, Lawton, Oklahoma and Farmington, Missouri before moving to Kingston, Ontario to pursue graduate studies. At Queen’s University she taught burn and wound care, electrotherapy, amputations, pelvic floor rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS in the School of Physical Therapy.
She began teaching Lifespan II in October and is taking on Electrophysical Agents in 2012.
Sandra Webber
Sandra Webber joined the School of Physical Therapy at the University of Saskatchewan in July 2010 after completing her PhD earlier that year at the University of Manitoba. Prior to undertaking her PhD, she taught for a number of years in the School of Medical Rehabilitation (Department of Physical Therapy) at the University of Manitoba. Sandra was fully funded by a CIHR fellowship during her doctoral degree which focused on mobility issues in older adults and the importance of strength/ power for function. Her current research interests include measuring physical activity levels in patients before and after knee-joint replacement and investigating how physical activity measures relate to functional mobility, self-reported symptoms/function, and objective biomechanical parameters. She taught Evidence-Based Practice II in the spring of 2011 and began Evidence-Based Practice I, Lifespan I, and Foundations II in September of 2011. Sandra ended her first year at the School by being awarded the SHRF 2011-2012 New Investigator Establishment Grant.
