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Graduate Student
University of Toronto, Canada
Melissa Biscardi, RN, BScn, MSc, is a Registered Nurse and Research Trainee at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto. Her clinical practice and research interests include rehabilitation for adults suffering with persistent post-concussion symptoms with a focus on those related to the visual system, sex and gender in the context of concussion and brain injury and the novel use of techology in concussion management. Melissa has been trained by the Carrick Institute and uses applied neurology and an evidence-based approach to support the best outcomes in clinic. She has a strong interest in rehabilitation-based interventions to help individuals with persistent symptoms recover and regain their quality of life. She is also interested in sex-based differences in concussion risk, subtype, rehabilitation strategies and outcomes. Her Master of Science, under the supervision of Dr. Colantonio, looked at persistent symptoms in women and explored the novel hormone Anti-Mullerian Hormone.’ Recently Melissa was awarded the Women and Brain Health scholarship in partnership with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Mitacs Accelerate in collaboration with NeuroFlex Inc. for her PhD work which examines oculomotor reehabilitation in adults after concussion.