Andria Santos

Occupational Therapist, Vancouver General Hospital, Inpatient Psychiatry: Brief Intervention Unit and Psychiatric Assessment Unit

Andria Santos is currently an Occupational Therapist working in Inpatient Psychiatry: Brief Intervention Unit and Psychiatric Assessment Unit at Vancouver General Hospital.  She has total of seven years combined experience working in the health field (both public and private). In the past, Andria has worked in vocational rehabilitation – including physical rehab programs, brain injury, and chronic pain – as a Registered Kinesiologist. She is experienced in Functional Capacity Evaluations, working with insurance corporations (including WorkSafe BC and ICBC), and as an independent contractor as a Kinesiologist. After graduating in 2003 from Human Kinetics (Health and Fitness Program), Andria went on to work for a private company in vocational rehabilitation for four years. In that time, she worked in a variety of programs including: a work hardening program, chronic pain program, brain injury program, and medical assessment program. Afterwards, she decided to become an Occupational Therapist and began the Master’s program at University of Western Ontario in 2007. Returning to Vancouver in 2009, Andria began working for a private company in vocational rehabilitation. She stayed for six months until getting hired at VCH – VGH where she has worked in a variety of units: orthopedic, medicine, neuro, spinal cord injury, geriatrics, and currently inpatient mental health.

Physical Therapist, Fit to Train Human Performance Systems

Mon Jef is a Certified Exercise Physiologist and Certified Acupuncture Foundation of Canada Institute working as a Physical Therapist with Fit to Train Human Performance Systems. He has past experience working with UBC Changing Aging Program and Canadian Sport Centre Pacific as a lab technician. A graduate of UBC’s School of Kinesiology, Mon Jef went on to obtain a Master’s degree researching recovery strategies from high intensity exercise. His interests include movement, health, and recovery and optimizing all of these.

Professor, Langara College (Faculty of Human Kinetics)
Instructor, University of British Columbia (UBC School of Kinesiology)
Strength & Conditions Coach, Human Motion Strength & Conditioning Inc.
Provincial Director, National Strength & Conditioning Association (N.S.C.A.)

Carmen Bott is a Strength & Conditions Coach at Human Motion Strength & Conditioning Inc., Professor within the Faculty of Human Kinetics at Langara College, and instructor at the University of British Columbia in the Kinesiology Department. Carmen is the founder and president of Human Motions Inc. and has been in the sport performance and fitness training industry for seventeen years. She is considered an expert resource in exercise prescription and strength coaching for the athlete population. Holding a Bachelor’s in Human Kinetics and Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology, Carmen is also the Provincial Director for the National Strength & Conditioning Association (N.S.C.A.). She holds several NCCP certifications and lectures internationally in the field of sport science and performance enhancement. She provides workshops for her peers as well as scientific information on a variety of topics for both media and general public. Carmen is currently on faculty at Langara College and instructs at the University of British Columbia in the Kinesiology Department

Position: Manager, BodyWorks Fitness Centre

Christina is a UBC Alumna of UBC’s School of Kinesiology, certified Clinical Exercise Specialist from the American College of Sports Medicine, and certified Exercise Physiologist by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. She is currently a Masters of Kinesiology student planning on performing analyses of community/broad-based acceptance post-rehabilitation programs. Through the BodyWorks Fitness Centre (an outreach program of the School of Kinesiology where she is the Program Manager) she has brought her expertise in clinical case management to the forefront of mainstream fitness. For almost ten years, Christina and her colleagues have incorporated a unique philosophy into their health and fitness programs by combining principles of athletic conditioning and clinical exercise programming. She has been able to assists the general public – which includes middle to old age adults – to increase their awareness of health and the importance of injury, illness, and disease prevention through the participation of individualized athlete-based and client-centered fitness programming. Christina and her staff of Kinesiology students at the BodyWorks Fitness Centre look forward to helping healthy, aging, and clinical populations reach their full fitness potential regardless of their previous health or fitness background.