{"id":32030,"date":"2026-09-10T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/une-semaine-dechanges-internationaux-au-crir-la-visite-de-la-delegation-de-luniversidade-federal-do-rio-grande-do-norte-ufrn-bresil-ouvre-la-voie-a-de-nouvelles-collaborations\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:53:41","slug":"une-semaine-dechanges-internationaux-au-crir-la-visite-de-la-delegation-de-luniversidade-federal-do-rio-grande-do-norte-ufrn-bresil-ouvre-la-voie-a-de-nouvelles-collaborations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/une-semaine-dechanges-internationaux-au-crir-la-visite-de-la-delegation-de-luniversidade-federal-do-rio-grande-do-norte-ufrn-bresil-ouvre-la-voie-a-de-nouvelles-collaborations\/","title":{"rendered":"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!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

<\/h1>\n

The start of the academic year was highlighted by the visit of Karla Mendonca<\/a>, Rodrigo Pegado, PT, PhD<\/a>, and Thayla Amorim S.<\/a> 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.<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

logos et photos<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n
\n

Check out the schedule for this networking week, carefully organized by Claudia Bojanowski<\/strong>, CRIR\u2019s Coordinator of Partnerships and Knowledge Mobilization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tuesday, September 8, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n

\ud83d\udccdThe delegation was welcomed at IURDPM – Institut univ. r\u00e9adaptation en d\u00e9ficience physique de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>\u2014for a day of tours, highlighted by a lecture by Rodrigo Pegado, PT, PhD<\/a> (UFRN) on pain neuromodulation.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcf8 Photo 1: Meeting with CRIR\u2019s scientific direction, Claudine Auger<\/a> and Philippe Archambault<\/a>.
\n\ud83d\udcf8 Photos 2\u20133\u20134: With the wonderful team from the CIME\u2013Living Lab<\/a> program (Intensification and Neuromodulation Clinic for People with Spinal Cord Injuries). Thank you to Pauline Sabalette<\/a> and Nicolas Hoang Quang<\/a> for the demonstration and for coordinating the presentation.
\n\ud83d\udcf8 Photo 5: With Johanne Higgins<\/a> (CRIR-IURDPM), whose work also focuses on pain neuromodulation.
\n\ud83d\udcf8 Photo 6: Demonstration of the hand exoskeleton by Katherine Samuel<\/a>, a doctoral student (advisors: Marika Demers<\/a> and Johanne Higgins<\/a>).
\n\ud83d\udcf8 Photo 7: Demonstration of the smart bike by Professor Emerita Sylvie Nadeau<\/a> (CRIR-IURDPM).
\n\ud83d\udcf8 Photo 8: With Karla Soares Menezes<\/a>, who presented the ENSEMBLE program alongside Dahlia Kairy<\/a> (CRIR-IURDPM).<\/p>\n

Thanks also to Cyril Duclos<\/a> (CRIR-IURDPM) for the presentation of the dual-belt treadmill used for proprioception-focused interventions. A special thank you to Licia Pazzoto Cacciari<\/a>, clinical research coordinator, for her help in organizing the day\u2019s events.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Wednesday, September 9, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\ud83d\udccdVisit to Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Boudrias\u2019s<\/a> (CRIR-HJR) laboratory at McGill University<\/a> with the two visiting professors, Rukiye Karakis<\/a> and Kali Gurkahraman<\/a>, from the Department of Software Engineering at Sivas Cumhuriyet University<\/a> in Turkey. (\ud83d\udcf8 Photo 9)
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
\n

Thursday, September 10, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
\ud83d\udccdTour of the <\/span>Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Center (LLMRC)<\/strong>, followed by a presentation by <\/span>KARLA MENDONCA<\/a>, <\/span>Thayla Amorim S.<\/a>, <\/span>Beatriz New York<\/a>, and <\/span>Tito Hugo<\/a> on examples of digital health interventions in Brazil for asthma management and the monitoring of cardiology patients (\ud83d\udcf8 Photos 10 and 11).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

\ud83d\udcf8 Photo 12: Tour of the sensory exploration corridors at the CRLLM\u2019s MAB site. Thank you to Manager Andr\u00e9a Faust<\/a> and her team for coordinating the day\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
<\/div>\n
\n

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

\n

___________________________<\/p>\n

CRIR | September 10, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…
Read more about 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!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":32026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32036,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030\/revisions\/32036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}