Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis holds the Reichwald Family Chair in Preventive Medicine at University of British Columbia’s Southern Medical Program and is the Director of the UBC Faculty of Medicine Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management. She is a UBC Distinguished University Scholar, Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) and School of Health and Exercise Sciences, an ICORD Principal Investigator, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology, an is an International Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology. Dr. Martin Ginis has received over $20 million in research funding and has published over 400 scientific papers. Her research program focuses on physical activity behaviour change, and the psychosocial consequences of physical activity participation, particularly among people living with spinal cord injury.

Kimberley Monden, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor, Licensed Psychologist, Vice Chair of Research, and Director of the Division of Research & Innovation in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School with experience in spinal cord injury clinical care and research. Dr. Monden’s research focuses on psychosocial adaptation to injury, including resilience and injustice appraisals. She is interested in improving quality of life and long-term psychosocial outcomes after SCI. Dr. Monden also has expertise in dissemination and implementation science. She is the founder and director of the Spinal Cord Injury Psychosocial Outcomes and Wellbeing Research (SCIPOWeR) laboratory. Dr. Monden is the Project Director of the inaugural Minnesota Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System. She has funding from NIDILRR, DoD, and the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation. Dr. Monden is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.