Prof. Dr. Bernadette Murphy graduated from Queens University in 1985 and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1989 before moving to New Zealand where she completed her MSc (1992) and PhD (1998) in Human Neurophysiology at the University of Auckland. She was a full-time faculty member in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science from 1999 to 2007, where she established an MSc in Exercise Rehabilitation. In January 2008, she returned to Canada and took on the role of Head of Kinesiology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).
She is the Director of the Human Neurophysiology and Rehabilitation Laboratory. The overall theme of her research is neural adaptation in humans and the role of physical interventions such as spinal manipulation and exercise in aiding the re-establishment of appropriate neuromuscular connections. She has previously been awarded the World Federation of Chiropractic Best Scientific Paper award (1995) and 3rd prize in 2007; the New Zealand Chiropractor of the Year (2004) and the 2010 Ontario Chiropractic Association award for most significant research contributions. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association and ISRN Rehabilitation and serves on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Biological Systems and Functions Evaluation committee which peer reviews research grants for the Canadian government.
