Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport Conference

TISS Funded Project Index

Cutting Edge TISS-Funded Research Currently Underway – Part 1

T01 Sleep apnea in Paralympic Ontario-Resident aThletes with Spinal cord injury (SPORTS) Study
Abrity Gomes
T02 Athlete Concussion Surveillance in Special Olympics Sports
Kelly Arbour-Nicitopoulos
T03 Assessing the Implementation of Mental Health Champions in Elite Youth Sport Organization
Abimbola Eke
T04 Recombinant Human Growth Hormone for Patellofemoral Pain in Active Patients: A Pilot, Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial
Ajay Shah
T05 Gymnast Wrist Injury Prevention Program (G-WIPP)
Andrea Chan
T06 Evaluating Neuroinflammation in Athletes With Concussion
Carmela Tartaglia
T07 The Chronic ACL Deficient Knee: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative to Keep These Athletes in the Game
David Wasserstein
T08 The Effectiveness of an Early Muscular Strength Rehabilitation Program Prior to Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction on Subjective and Objective Measures of Knee Function: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial
Tim Burkhart
T09 Optimizing Exercise Training Intensity Using Wearable Technology – a Feasibility Study
Robert Bentley
T10 Influence of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Metabolic and Performance Adaptations to Sprint Interval Training
Jenna Gillen
T11 Establishing a Multidisciplinary Preventative Elite Athlete Wellbeing Strategy: Managing Body Image Interference and Mitigating the Effects of Performance Deficits and Injury Risk
Delaney Thibodeau
T12 Development of Convolutional Neural Network for Motion Artifact Mitigation in Wearable PPG Devices
Daniel Franklin

Cutting Edge TISS-Funded Research Currently Underway – Part 2

T13 Exploring the Role of the dlPFC in Motor Imagery With tDCS
Molly Brillinger
T14 Athlete Negotiations of a Concussion Risk Threshold in Canadian Amateur Rugby
Michael Jorgensen
T15 A New Perspective on Concussion Assessment and Management: A Novel Multimodal Exertional Test
Kyla Pyndiura
T16 PRehab tO PreparE Living Liver Donors for Enhanced Recovery (PROPELLER): A Randomized Feasibility Study
Daniel Sibley
T17 Developing a Cell-Based Model to Investigate the Influence of Novel Nutraceuticals on Muscle Metabolism
Cassidy Tinline-Goodfellow
T18 Investigating MiRNA Expression in Athletes With Sport-Related Concussion
Genevieve Ammendolia Tome
T19 Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning on 2-km Rowing Ergometer Performance in Males and Females
Vanessa Lin
T20 The Effects of Online vs. Offline Application of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in an Endurance Context
Sydney Winokur
T21 Advancing Knee Osteoarthrosis (OA) Subject-Specific Modeling: AI-Enhanced Finite Element Methodology
Mahziyar Darvishi
T22 Individualizing Athlete Training Through Strategic Implementation of Wearable Technology
Adam Di Salvo
T23 Non-invasive Estimation of the Anabolic Sensitivity of Dietary Leucine After Resistance Exercise and at Rest in Oral Contraceptive Users and Males
Nicki Pourhashemi