Janine Farragher, an assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, has been recognized with Canada’s highest research honour – a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Life Participation and Kidney Disease.

Over the next five years, Farragher and her research team will explore how complications of kidney disease, like fatigue and cognitive impairment, affect everyday living, and whether approaches like cognitive rehabilitation and energy management training could improve their life participation and well-being.

Farragher hopes her research will lead to improved rehabilitative programs and services for people with kidney disease, which affects one in nine people worldwide.

Established in 2000, Canada Research Chairs are part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world’s top countries in research. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.