Tania Lam

Dr. Tania Lam is a principal investigator at ICORD and a professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Bachelor of Science in physical therapy at Queen’s University and her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Alberta. Her post-doctoral fellowship was at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr. Lam’s research program explores the application of exercise and rehabilitation strategies to improve functional recovery of spinal cord injury (SCI). Her work spans the fields of neuroscience and physical therapy and includes the use of both applied clinical interventions and neurophysiological mechanistic investigations. For many years, Dr. Lam’s research program focused primarily on recovery of walking and included the development of innovative robotic-based protocols for gait training and assessments of proprioceptive function in people with SCI. More recently, Dr. Lam’s lab has shifted focus to explore the possibilities of using exoskeleton gait training and other exercise-based interventions to target the pelvic floor muscles and improve urogenital function in individuals with SCI. Other current projects include determining the effect of peripheral nerve stimulation on sensorimotor excitability and establishing techniques to quantify pelvic floor muscle function in people with SCI.