PRINTGabrielle van der Velde
Gabrielle van der Velde, DC, PhD, is a post-doctorate and research associate at THETA, and an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Work and Health. She is a member of the Scientific Secretariat of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders, an international group of clinician-scientists and methodologists who undertook a best-evidence synthesis of the neck pain literature and developed clinical practice recommendations for neck pain and whiplash-associated disorders.
Dr. van der Velde's research focuses on the assessment of health technologies, using systematic review and meta-analysis, decision-analytic modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Her research also focuses on the measurement of health-related quality-of-life using preference-based measures and the evaluation of health status instruments' measurement properties using modern test theory (item-response theory) approaches including Rasch analysis.
Originally trained as a chiropractor, Dr. van der Velde completed a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto in 2008. She currently holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Post-doctoral Fellowship through the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research and a CIHR Bisby Fellowship.
Email Address: gabrielle.vandervelde@theta.utoronto.ca