PERFORM Centre on track
The PERFORM Centre – an acronym for Prevention, Evaluation, Rehabilitation and Formation – is in the latter stages of construction, and on schedule.
Under construction since fall 2009, the nearly 8 000 sq.m. facility will become the new hub in health research and education at Concordia. The facility will be equipped and ready for the fall term in September 2011.
The teaching and research centre will bring together researchers from the Department of Exercise Science specializing in behavioural science, biomechanics, athletic therapy and exercise physiology.
A first step in the transition will be to relocate research projects underway in various locations to PERFORM’s six specialized labs.
Coming from their current locations in the Richard J. Renaud Science Pavilion (SP) will be the research of professor Geoff Dover to the Athletic Therapy and Pain Lab and professor Nancy St-Onge to the Posture and Movement Laboratory.
Professor Simon Bacon will also move from the SP to the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, and Professor Véronique Pepin will shift from the SP to the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Lab.
Exercise Science chair Robert Kilgour will bring his work from his office at McGill University Health Centre to the Cachexia Assessment and Rehabilitation Lab.
Sylvia Santosa, a new hire who will join Concordia in January, will move from the not-for-profit medical practice Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to the Nutrition, Obesity and Metabolism Research Lab.
“The thing that will make PERFORM unique compared to other institutions and research centres is the fact that everything will be located under one roof,” says Dover. “What it will do for Concordia is generate excellent multidisciplinary research.
Related links:
• PERFORM Centre
• Concordia Department of Exercise Science