Keynote Speakers
Monica Maly
Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
Monica Maly is a Physiotherapist, Professor and University Research Chair in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Monica’s research program integrates biomechanics, advanced imaging and clinical measurement to advance strategies to promote physical activity among older adults with osteoarthritis. This work is supported by The Arthritis Society, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation among others.
James Wakeling
Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
Associate Member, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
James Wakeling has over 30 years of expertise in experimental and theoretical studies of muscle biomechanics. An overarching focus of this research has been the force and power output from whole muscles during realistic movements, and understanding how whole muscle forces differ from the forces of the constituent fibres within the muscle. This work has included studies on the effect of fibre-type recruitment, muscle mass, stiffness of the muscle tissue, intramuscular fat and has encompassed comparative and human studies.