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A Week of International Exchange at CRIR: The Visit by the Delegation from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN, Brazil) Paves the Way for New Collaborations!

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The start of the academic year was highlighted by the visit of Karla Mendonca, Rodrigo Pegado, PT, PhD, and Thayla Amorim S. from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN, Brazil). Their visit to the CRIR made for an inspiring and engaging week, rich in scientific exchange, learning opportunities, and meaningful discoveries.

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Check out the schedule for this networking week, carefully organized by Claudia Bojanowski, CRIR’s Coordinator of Partnerships and Knowledge Mobilization.

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

📍The delegation was welcomed at IURDPM – Institut univ. réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal—for a day of tours, highlighted by a lecture by Rodrigo Pegado, PT, PhD (UFRN) on pain neuromodulation.

📸 Photo 1: Meeting with CRIR’s scientific direction, Claudine Auger and Philippe Archambault.
📸 Photos 2–3–4: With the wonderful team from the CIME–Living Lab program (Intensification and Neuromodulation Clinic for People with Spinal Cord Injuries). Thank you to Pauline Sabalette and Nicolas Hoang Quang for the demonstration and for coordinating the presentation.
📸 Photo 5: With Johanne Higgins (CRIR-IURDPM), whose work also focuses on pain neuromodulation.
📸 Photo 6: Demonstration of the hand exoskeleton by Katherine Samuel, a doctoral student (advisors: Marika Demers and Johanne Higgins).
📸 Photo 7: Demonstration of the smart bike by Professor Emerita Sylvie Nadeau (CRIR-IURDPM).
📸 Photo 8: With Karla Soares Menezes, who presented the ENSEMBLE program alongside Dahlia Kairy (CRIR-IURDPM).

Thanks also to Cyril Duclos (CRIR-IURDPM) for the presentation of the dual-belt treadmill used for proprioception-focused interventions. A special thank you to Licia Pazzoto Cacciari, clinical research coordinator, for her help in organizing the day’s events.

 

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

📍Visit to Marie-Hélène Boudrias’s (CRIR-HJR) laboratory at McGill University with the two visiting professors, Rukiye Karakis and Kali Gurkahraman, from the Department of Software Engineering at Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey. (📸 Photo 9)

Thursday, September 10, 2026

📍Tour of the Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Center (LLMRC), followed by a presentation by KARLA MENDONCA, Thayla Amorim S., Beatriz New York, and Tito Hugo on examples of digital health interventions in Brazil for asthma management and the monitoring of cardiology patients (📸 Photos 10 and 11).

📸 Photo 12: Tour of the sensory exploration corridors at the CRLLM’s MAB site. Thank you to Manager Andréa Faust and her team for coordinating the day’s events.

These activities are part of an initiative led by Sara Ahmed (CRIR-CRLLM) and the BRILLIANT Learning Community aimed at strengthening ties between CRIR and UFRN, two institutions that have been collaborating for over a decade!

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CRIR | September 10, 2026

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