Carolina Bottari

Professor Carolina Bottari is an occupational therapist who specializes in cognitive impairments following a traumatic brain injury. She is a full professor in the School of Rehabilitation of the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal and leader of the Participation, social inclusion and rehabilitation services research axis at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal.

Professor Bottari completed a PhD in rehabilitation sciences at Université de Montréal and a CIHR-funded postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at McGill University. She began her academic career after 10 years of clinical work with people with TBI. She is an internationally recognized and widely published researcher, with 100 published scientific articles and 300 abstracts. She has attracted extensive external grant funding and recently received the award of excellence for her outstanding career from the Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec.

She has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Rehabilitation Program for the development of standards for TBI rehabilitation services. She has also contributed to capacity-building initiatives in the Global South through the training of occupational therapists at the University of Rwanda.

Professor Bottari is currently leading several largely funded intersectoral grants seeking to put into place an ecosystem of care around women victims of intimate partner violence at risk of having sustained a TBI. She is also one of the lead investigators on externally funded research aimed at developing and evaluating innovative rehabilitation services for vulnerably housed individuals who have sustained a TBI.