Molly Verrier

Professor Molly Verrier trained as a physical and occupational therapist at the University of Toronto. Following graduation she practiced neurological physical therapy at the Toronto Western Hospital. Upon graduation from her graduate studies in Clinical Neurophysiology and Health Science at McMaster University, she joined the physical therapy teaching faculty at the University of Toronto and was the Lead of the U of T Human Neuromotor Control Laboratory at the Playfair Neuroscience Unit situated at TWH. Between 1988 and 1994 she was the Director of the then Division of Physical Therapy in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Prof. Verrier became the Chair of the first Department of Physical and the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science at the University of Toronto in 1994 and over the next decade, along with a group of talented PT faculty, implemented a BSc PT Evidence Based Curriculum, a Professional Master’s Program in Physical Therapy, and MSc and PhD Program in Rehabilitation Science. Currently, Prof. Verrier is a Professor Emerita at the Univeristy of Toronto, Department of Physical Therapy, where she has supervised physical therapy PhD students and is a member of the Board of Directors at West Park Healthcare Centre.