Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis holds the Reichwald Family Chair in Preventive Medicine at University of British Columbia’s Southern Medical Program and is the Director of the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Managementt. She is also a UBC Distinguished University Scholar, Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), Professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences, and an ICORD Principal Investigator. Dr. Martin Ginis has received over $12 million in research funding and has published over 300 peer-reviewed research articles. Her research program focuses on physical activity behaviour change, and the psychosocial consequences of physical activity participation, particularly among people living with spinal cord injury.