ICDR-Executive
ICDR Executive Team provides support and guidance to the ICDR Groups and ICDR partners on operational and strategic matters.
ICDR Co-Directors
Andrea Duncan, BScOT, MBA, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont)
Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
International Entrepreneurship Special Advisor, Office of the Vice President
Co-Director and Director of Education, International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation
Dr. Andrea Duncan is an occupational therapist with an MBA who has worked in a variety of public and private health care settings. Andrea has maintained a core faculty position within the Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy program at the University of Toronto since 2001. Andrea is responsible for teaching MScOT students program development and program evaluation. She has also championed the unique and exciting role emerging fieldwork opportunities for students. Andrea’s research is focused on strategic business development for health care, health care market analysis, disability management, workplace wellness and knowledge translation in role emerging learning environments.
Tim Bressmann, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto
Cross-Appointed, Department of Dentistry, University of Toronto
Co-Director and Director of Research, International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation
Dr. Tim Bressmann is a faculty member of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology as well as the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests focus on structurally related speech and voice disorders. He is particularly interested in speech disorders related to craniofacial syndromes such as cleft palate.
ICDR Website Editor and Admin
Cindy Nguyen, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Student, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
Cindy Nguyen is a student at the University of Toronto, pursuing her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences with a collaborative specialization in Women’s Health. She holds a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Sciences and a Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering. Her interdisciplinary training bridges neural engineering and clinical research, with past work spanning deep brain stimulation to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
Her current doctoral research investigates sex-stratified patterns in depression-related service utilization following traumatic brain injury (TBI), with an emphasis on sex and gender. Cindy served in multiple institutional initiatives advocating for equity, diversity, inclusion, Indigeneity, and accessibility (EDIIA) such as co-lead the READII Committee at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Project Lead at the Toronto Council on Aging, among others, where she organized speaker series, co-developed educational toolkits, and coordinated workshops focused on inclusive health research and practice.