Dr. Joy MacDermid is a Professor at the School of Physical Therapy at Western University, Canada. She holds a CIHR Chair in Gender, Work and Health, and the Dr. James Roth Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Measurement and Knowledge Translation.
Dr. MacDermid is a hand therapist/physical therapist/epidemiologist and has published >380 peer-reviewed papers on measuring and predicting musculoskeletal disability. She has developed outcome measures that are used internationally including self-report measures like The Patient Rated Wrist/Hand Evaluation.
Dr. MacDermid is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Hand Therapy and the Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy.