Kate Hayward, PhD, PT

Kate
Hayward,
PhD, PT
University of
British Columbia
Vancouver Canada
and
Florey Institute of Neuroscience
and Mental Health Melbourne Australia

Postdoctoral Fellow

Getting to know Dr. Hayward...

Q: What factors influenced your career choice?
A: A love of working with people, a passion to enable an individual to achieve their best outcome, supportive sister who made me believe anything was possible, and an amazing mentor who was an enthusiologist ++

Q: What do you do to keep fit?
A: Growing up in the tropics of northern Australia I love to be outdoors. These days that means running in the forest on campus, hiking the beautiful mountains of Vancouver and road cycling to a beach/lake/river!

Q: If you could have dinner with anyone, living or not, who would that be?
A: Why choose one when you can have three! Pat Rafter (Australian tennis player - childhood sporting hero), Brene Brown and Simon Sinek

Q: What's your favorite holiday?
A: Lighthouse Beach in Australia – for my entire life this has been my families holiday beach destination!

Q: What are the favorite things about your career?
A: Mentoring junior scientists; learning constantly from my patients, students and colleagues; thinking with brilliant people that are scattered around the world (so travel comes in here too!) … to name a few.

Dr. Kate Hayward's research focuses on understanding ‘right dose, right person, right time’ as it relates to upper limb training and recovery post-stroke, and with a particular focus on people with more severe impairment. The overall goal of her program of research is to advance individualised patient treatment post-stroke to optimise motor recovery and return to functioning in real world environments.