Listen as Dr. Cassidy and I discuss his career in chiropractic,
research, and hear his thoughts on a variety of important issues
including the powerful role of psychosocial factors on health. Dr.
Cassidy is a Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy at the Dalla
Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is also an
Adjunct Globalization Professor at the Faculty of Health at the
University of Southern Denmark. He began his career as a chiropractor
(CMCC 1975) and later obtained graduate degrees in Surgery (MSc
University of Saskatchewan), Pathology (PhD University of Saskatchewan)
and Injury Epidemiology (DrMedSc Karolinska Institute, Sweden). His past
appointments include Assistant Professor of Surgery and Rehabilitation
Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan (1994-1999), Associate
Professor of Public Health and Medicine at the University of Alberta
(2000-2003), Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Hospital Research
Institute (2003-2017) and Professor of Sport Science and Clinical
Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark (2011-2016).
His research focus is injury epidemiology, neurotrauma,
musculoskeletal disorders and evidence-based health care and policy. He
has published over 300 research papers and chapters in textbooks over
his career, including papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, the
British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA Psychiatry
and the Archives of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine to name a few.
He is particularly interested in the psychosocial determinants of injury
recovery and long-term consequences of injury.
View Dr. Cassidy’s research at researchgate.net.
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