Marla Beauchamp is a physical therapist and Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, and an Associate Member in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. She is also the Director of the MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre in Toronto. Dr. Beauchamp holds a tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Mobility, Aging and Chronic Disease and an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Colleges and Universities focusing on mobility and technology. She completed her PhD in pulmonary rehabilitation at the University of Toronto and her postdoctoral training in outcomes measurement and geriatric rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
The overarching aim of Dr. Beauchamp’s research is to identify ways to keep older adults healthy and mobile in their homes and communities for as long as possible. She is leading several major interdisciplinary projects on fall risk assessment and prevention, wearable technology for mobility monitoring, and studies on recovery after COVID-19 and respiratory infection. Her ongoing work is funded by CIHR, AGE-WELL, and the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging. Internationally, she is contributing to mobility measurement initiatives for the WHO UN Decade of Healthy Aging and leads the sex and gender working group for the World Falls Guidelines Initiative.
