Aliki Thomas is an Associate Professor at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy and research scientist at the Institute for Health Sciences Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After several years practicing as an occupational therapist, Aliki went on to complete a master’s in education followed by a PhD in Educational Psychology, with a major in Instructional Psychology and a minor in Applied Cognitive Science. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship on knowledge translation (KT) for evidence-based practice (EBP). Aliki holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Education Practice and Policy for Evidence based Healthcare. The goal of her research is to bring key stakeholders from education, practice, and health policy to synergistically co-develop, implement, and test innovative strategies that will address the longstanding challenge of the underutilization of scientific findings in practice. One important focus of her internationally recognized research program is ensuring that educational programs in rehabilitation are evidence-informed and clinically meaningful, such that, under their influence, graduates become scholarly practitioners and agents of change. Aliki is recognized as a leader in the areas of health profession education, KT, mixed methods research, and methodological approaches to knowledge synthesis. She has served on the editorial boards of several occupational therapy journals and health professions education journals.
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