Congratulations to Jill Zwicker, one of our PhD graduates, who has won the Pursuit Award in Childhood Disability Health Research sponsored by the Bloorview Research Institute!
Each university in Canada could only nominate one recent PhD graduate so Jill already has the distinction of being the UBC nominee. Dr. Susan Harris and Dr. Lara Boyd, her co-supervisors wrote her letter of support and the OSOT was the nominating department. Jill’s doctoral thesis examined neural and behavioural correlates of motor performance in children with developmental coordination disorder. Jill is presently a Canadian Child Health Clinician Scholars doing a post-doctoral fellowship with Ruth Grunau and Steven Miller at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.