Profile

Dr. Doug Misener is a licensed psychologist, with practice specialization over the past 29 years in rehabilitation, clinical and sports psychology, vocational rehabilitation, and employability issues. Areas of special interest include rehabilitation of accident and trauma conditions, sports’ injury rehab, medical psychology, and elite athlete performance. Dr. Misener has as well been engaged as a Kinesiologist, addressing in years past clinical and functional mobility issues arising from traumatic conditions, chronic pain-related disorders, and psychogenic factors affecting physical rehabilitation and optimal recovery. Major appointments past and present included Senior Clinical Psychologist, and Consulting Psychologist to North York General Hospital, Women’s College Hospital; Sport C.A.R.E. Musculoskeletal Program (Centre for Advanced Research & Education); Clinical Doctoral Internship Supervisor, University of Toronto, York University, and the Adler School of Professional Psychology; Diagnostician and treating clinician to the University of Waterloo Office for Persons With Disabilities, and to UW Health/Medical Services; Consultant to Humber College, Durham College, WSIB, CNIB, Canadian Hearing Society, Goodwill Services (Rehabilitation Division), Human Resources Development Canada, Ontario Brain Injury Association, Ontario Vocational Rehabilitation Services Branch/ Ontario Disability Support Program, Peterborough Youth Services, Cochrane District Social Services Administrative Board-Employment Services, Porcupine Children’s Aid Society, Disability Assessment Specialist to York Central Hospital, Clinical Coordinator for vocational rehabilitation planning and case management of Vocational Rehabilitation Associates, and in a like capacity to Templeton Training & Development. Over many years Dr. Misener has acted as consulting rehabilitation specialist to a large number of major motor vehicle and long-term disability insurers in Canada, to law firms across Canada specializing in personal injury law, to nonprofit healthcare, medical, and rehabilitation case management organizations. He has been called as an expert witness in vocational rehabilitation, clinical, and rehabilitation psychology, and employability issues to Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) arbitration and tribunals, and to the Superior Court of Justice Ontario. He is affiliated with the Read Clinic, a multidisciplinary rehabilitation, psychological, physical and vocational rehabilitation clinic, The National Ballet of Canada and National Ballet Orchestra, the Canadian Sport Institute of Ontario, The Toronto Marathon, and the Ontario Hockey League (OHL); in the latter capacity, Dr. Misener provides performance/rehabilitation services to elite athletes and dancers, including Canadian Olympic and Paralympic team members. He was as well the Lead Medical/Mental Health Treatment Coordinator to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Dr. Misener has lectured widely on vocational rehabilitation, stress and pain management, recovery from sport’s injury, optimizing performance, adjustment to disability, return to work and employability issues.

Credentials

Regulated Health Care professional in good standing.

Has been practicing since 1991

Language(s)

English

Treatments

I treat the following age groups: Minor (under 18), Adult (18-64), Senior (65+)

I treat the following injuries: Amputation, Brain Injury, Chronic Pain, Emotional Trauma, Fatality, Orthopaedic, Paraplegia, Psychiatric Trauma, Quadriplegia, Soft Tissue, Spinal Cord, Neurosis

Region(s) of service

Greater Toronto Area, Bruce Peninsula, Southern Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, Haliburton Highlands to the Ottawa Valley, Hamilton, Halton and Brant, HPW: Huron, Perth, Waterloo and Wellington, Kawartha and Northumberland, Muskoka, Parry Sound and Algonquin Park, Niagara Falls and Wine Country, Northern Ontario Tourism Region – North East, Northern Ontario Tourism Region – North Central, Northern Ontario Tourism Region – North West, Ottawa and Countryside, South Eastern Ontario, Southwest Ontario, York, Durham and Hills of Headwaters

I have worked with the following lawyers:

Robert Ben, Michael Bennett, Ian Furlong, Deanna Gilbert, Sloan Mandel, Darcy Merkur, Stacey Stevens