Dr. Jacquie van Ierssel is a CAMPT physiotherapist and postdoctoral fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Her ongoing research focuses on improving how to measure balance and functional outcomes following concussion to aid clinical decision-making regarding recovery and return to sport. Her research has been published in high-impact peer reviewed journals. In her doctoral research she developed the Concussion Recovery Questionnaire (CORE-Q), a concussion-specific measure of the functional capacity that measures how long a person can perform a task before the onset or worsening of symptoms. She is the founder of R2P™ Concussion Management and has instructed over 1000 healthcare professionals globally. She is an expert panelist for the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation living pediatric concussion guidelines, and has contributed to the WSIB mTBI program of care guidelines. She has been a clinical instructor at the University of Toronto and is past chair of Sport Physiotherapy Canada, Ontario Section. As an invited speaker at many professional conferences, Jacquie has spoken about the evidence-based management of concussion across the country. She is a nationally accredited sports physiotherapist with over 20 years of clinical and field care experience treating non-athletes, recreational athletes, and Olympics athletes with concussion across the continuum of care from baseline testing, on-field assessment, management of acute and persistent symptoms, and helping patients return to school, work, and sport. She has clinical expertise in manual therapy, treating the spine, as well as vestibular rehabilitation, treating balance and dizziness problems.