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Breiffni Leavy

Breiffni Leavy

Assistant Senior Lecturer | Docent
Telephone: +46852488814
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels Allé 23, 14183 Huddinge
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 Fysioterapi, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • My research is focused primarily on physical activity and home exercise for older people in general and more specifically, people with Parkinsons
    disease. I am especially interested in investigating how to bridge the gaps between research knowledge and standard primary care rehabilitation, where the vast marjority of older adults with progressive disease receive care.  I am also employed at Stockholms sjukhem where I am focusing on developing home exercise interventions Parkinsons disease using mobile health technology.  

     

    Investigating rehabilitation for complex health conditions requires the application of a variety of methods, and my experience spans  
    methodologies from qualitative, to epidemiology and intervention and implementation approaches. I completed my PhD in 2015 at Uppsala university, where my dissertation investigated fall-related hip fracture using a varied methodological 
    perspectives. I then wished to focus on the group of people at highest risk for falling - people with Parkinson's disease. 
    I graduated as a physiotherapist from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 2000. I completed my masters at Uppsala University in 2007, and my PhD at
    Uppsala in 2015. Since then I have completed courses in intervention and implementation science as well as pedagogy at university level.

Teaching

  • I teach at graduate and post-graduate level at the physiotherapy program at 
    Karolinska institutet. I also supervise Post-doctoral researchers, PhD and Masters students.

    I am course coordinator the Physiotherapy for Children and Older adults.

Articles

  • Article: PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2025;:pzaf034
    Johansson H; Rennie L; Grooten WJA; Leavy B
  • Article: NEUROREHABILITATION AND NEURAL REPAIR. 2025;39(2):114-125
    Longhurst JK; Hooyman A; Landers MR; Mancini M; Franzen E; Leavy B; Johansson H; Peterson D
  • Article: GAIT & POSTURE. 2025;115:14-20
    Johansson H; Peterson DS; Sedhed J; Leavy B
  • Article: CLINICAL REHABILITATION. 2024;39(2):268-278
    Sedhed J; Johansson H; Akesson E; Franzen E; Leavy B
  • Article: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE. 2024;23(1):251
    Leavy B; Akesson E; Lokk J; Schultz T; Strang P; Franzen E
  • Article: BMC NEUROLOGY. 2024;24(1):114
    Sedhed J; Johansson H; Andersson N; Akesson E; Kalbe E; Franzen E; Leavy B
  • Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGIC PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2024;48(2):75-82
    Conradsson DM; Leavy B; Hagstromer M; Franzen E
  • Article: AGING & MENTAL HEALTH. 2023;27(12):2430-2437
    Johnsson C; Malinowsky C; Leavy B
  • Article: BMC NEUROLOGY. 2023;23(1):356
    Leavy B; Sedhed J; Kalbe E; Akesson E; Franzen E; Johansson H
  • Article: JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE. 2023;55:jrm9427
    Joseph C; Johansson H; Leavy B; Franzen E
  • Article: NPJ PARKINSONS DISEASE. 2022;8(1):12
    Freidle M; Johansson H; Ekman U; Lebedev AV; Schalling E; Thompson WH; Svenningsson P; Lovden M; Abney A; Albrecht F; Steurer H; Leavy B; Holmin S; Hagstromer M; Franzen E
  • Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGIC PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2021;45(4):266-272
    Leavy B; Hagstromer M; Conradsson DM; Franzen E
  • Article: PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2021;101(10):pzab180
    Godi M; Arcolin I; Leavy B; Giardini M; Corna S; Franzen E
  • Article: NEUROREHABILITATION AND NEURAL REPAIR. 2021;35(4):356-366
    Johansson H; Ekman U; Rennie L; Peterson DS; Leavy B; Franzen E
  • Article: BMC NEUROLOGY. 2021;21(1):71
    von Rosen P; Hagstromer M; Franzen E; Leavy B
  • Article: BMC GERIATRICS. 2021;21(1):96
    Leavy B; Joseph C; Kwak L; Franzen E
  • Journal article: ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA. 2020;16(S10)
    Thunborg C; Ã…kesson E; Leavy B; HÃ¥kansson K; Sindi S; Solomon A; Levak N; Kivipelto M
  • Article: CLINICAL REHABILITATION. 2020;34(6):837-844
    Joseph C; Leavy B; Franzen E
  • Article: PARKINSONS DISEASE. 2020;2020:2410863-12
    Johansson H; Freidle M; Ekman U; Schalling E; Leavy B; Svenningsson P; Hagstromer M; Franzen E
  • Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGIC PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2020;44(1):15-22
    Leavy B; Joseph C; Lofgren N; Johansson H; Hagstromer M; Franzen E
  • Article: PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2019;99(11):1501-1510
    Johansson H; Franzen E; Roaldsen KS; Hagstromer M; Leavy B
  • Article: DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION. 2019;41(8):934-940
    Leavy B; Berntsson J; Franzen E; Roaldsen KS
  • Article: CLINICAL REHABILITATION. 2019;33(2):222-232
    Joseph C; Brodin N; Leavy B; Hagstromer M; Lofgren N; Franzen E
  • Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGIC PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2019;43(1):42-49
    Lofgren N; Conradsson D; Joseph C; Leavy B; Hagstromer M; Franzen E
  • Article: BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR. 2018;8(9):e01081
    Leavy B; Loefgren N; Nilsson M; Franzen E
  • Article: BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR. 2018;8(8):e01021
    Joseph C; Leavy B; Mattsson S; Falk L; Franzen E
  • Article: MOVEMENT DISORDERS CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2017;4(6):843-851
    Conradsson D; Leavy B; Hagstroemer M; Nilsson MH; Franzen E
  • Article: BMC NEUROLOGY. 2017;17(1):27
    leavy B; Kwak L; Hagstromer M; Franzen E
  • Article: CALCIFIED TISSUE INTERNATIONAL. 2017;100(1):1-12
    Leavy B; Michaelsson K; Aberg AC; Melhus H; Byberg L
  • Article: PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2017;97(1):81-89
    Leavy B; Roaldsen KS; Nylund K; Hagstromer M; Franzen E
  • Article: BMC GERIATRICS. 2015;15:40
    Leavy B; Byberg L; Michaelsson K; Melhus H; Aberg AC
  • Article: OSTEOPOROSIS INTERNATIONAL. 2013;24(9):2387-2396
    Leavy B; Aberg AC; Melhus H; Mallmin H; Michaelsson K; Byberg L
  • Journal article: BONE ABSTRACTS. 2013
    Leavy B; AEberg AC; Melhus H; Mallmin H; Michaelsson K; Byberg L
  • Article: JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. 2010;18(2):219-236
    Leavy B; Aberg AC
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All other publications

  • Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2023
    Sedhed J; Johansson H; Andersson N; Åkesson E; Kalbe E; Franzén E; Leavy B
  • Review: JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY. 2023;270(6):2890-2907
    Johansson H; Folkerts A-K; Hammarstrom I; Kalbe E; Leavy B
  • Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2021
    Leavy B; Joseph C; Kwak L; Franzén E
  • Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2020
    Leavy B; Joseph C; Kwak L; Franzén E
  • Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2020
    Leavy B; Joseph C; Kwak L; Franzén E
  • Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2020
    Leavy B; Joseph C; Kwak L; Franzén E

Grants

  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 July 2023 - 30 June 2026
  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 July 2019 - 30 June 2022

Employments

  • Assistant Senior Lecturer, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2024-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2022

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