Heather Lambert
Assistant Professor [Professional]
BSc (OT); PhD (Rehabilitation Sciences); Postdoctoral studies (Queen's, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research)
OCC1-548: Holistic Approaches in OT
OCC1-612: Qualitative research modules of Advanced Research Methods
OCC1-627: Advanced Topics in Dysphagia
POTH-616, 617, 619: Seminars in Rehabilitation Science
Supervisor, Professional MSc research projects
Instructor for Interprofessional Educational activities
Prof. Lambert's research and clinical interests revolve around feeding and swallowing disorders and other difficulties that arise at the end of life. Prof. Lambert's doctorate focused on developing a quantitative screening tool for adults with feeding and swallowing disorders. The McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment (2006) was published in English and French by the CAOT, and has since been translated into Dutch, Italian and Danish; the second edition will be published soon. Her postdoctoral work looked at the quality of care, policies and procedures surrounding end of life decisions for care from the perspectives of care recipients, their families, health professionals, and institutions, using qualitative and policy analysis research techniques. In honour of her research on the interaction between law, institutional policy and the individual, she has been made the only fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies who has not been called to the Bar. Her current research is primarily through the professional masters’ projects and includes test development, quality assurance, feeding and swallowing, and knowledge translation.
Prof. Lambert is not accepting PhD students at this time.
Lambert, H.C. (2012) The allied health professional’s role assisting medical decisions at the end of life.Topics in Language Disorders 32(2), 119-136 (invited paper).
Hansen T., Lambert H.C., Faber J. (2012) Reliability of the Danish version of the McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment for observation-based measures during meals. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 19(6) 488-496.
Hansen T., Lambert H.C., Faber J. (2012) Validation of the Danish version of the McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment using classical test theory and the Rasch model. Disability and Rehabilitation
34(10) 859-868.Hansen T, Faber J and Lambert HC. (2011). Content validation of a Danish version of "The McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment" for dysphagia management. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 18(4):282-93.
Co-author, Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT) position statement on eating, feeding and swallowing care by occupational therapists, 2010.
Contributor, Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT) hOTopic on Dysphagia, 2009.
Lambert HC, Gisel EG, Groher ME, Abrahamowicz M and Wood-Dauphinee S. (2006). The McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment: Test Manual and Evaluation Forms. Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists: Ottawa, ON.
Lambert HC, Gisel EG, Groher ME, Abrahamowicz M and Wood-Dauphinee S. (2006). L'évaluation des capacités d'ingestion McGill. Instructions et formulaires. Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists: Ottawa, ON.
Lambert HC, Gisel EG, Groher ME, Abrahamowicz M and Wood-Dauphinee S. (2006). Psychometric testing of the McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60(4): 409-419.
Lambert HC, McColl MA, Gilbert J, Wong J, Murray G and Shortt SED. (2005). Factors affecting long-term-care residents' decision-making processes as they formulate advance directives. The Gerontologist, 45(5): 626-633.
Lambert HC, Abrahamowicz M, Gisel EG, Wood-Dauphinee S and Groher ME. (2005). The McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment predicts time to death in an elderly population with neurogenic dysphagia: Preliminary evidence. Dysphagia, 20(2): 123-132.
Lambert HC, Gisel EG, Groher ME and Wood-Dauphinee S. (2003). The development and initial field testing of the McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment: An evaluation of functional ingestive skills of elderly persons. Dysphagia, 18(2): 101-113.
