• Pediatrician
• Neonatologist
• Research Scientist: special interest in brain development and response to injury
• Protocol developer
  • Brain Ultrasound Scanning
  • Threshold Electrical Stimulation
  • EMG Biofeedback
  • SEMG Triggered Stim
• Invited Speaker and Workshop Presenter
• Medical Director of TASC Network
• Author
  • Extensively published in peer reviewed publications and invited articles, chapters and books
  • Recent Publication: Pape, K.E., Chipman, M.L.: Electrotherapy in Rehabilitation. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice, J.A. Delisa, B.M. Gans, N.E. Walsh, et al eds. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD. 2004.

Karen Pape Career Path

• 2006 - Launched the TASC Network Resource Library. For More Information... (click here)
• 2000 - Launched the TASC Network Program. Conferences were developed to teach her unique approach to achieving Personal Best. It is her belief that therapy interventions, surgery, and technologies must be linked to the developmental age of the child. The program, for both professionals and families, teaches how to use the right techniques at the right "brain age" to achieve the right results. This approach is now available to members of the TASC Network in the TASC Network Resource Library.
• 1994 - Launched the TES Protocol Training Program to train therapists and physicians from around the world. These trained practitioners were the founding members of the TASC Network. 
• 1985 - 1993 Breakthrough Development: Threshold Electrical Stimulation (TES)
  Developed this innovative approach to the treatment of disuse muscle atrophy in children with childhood neurologic disorders. The protocols for children and adults with neurological disabilities such as cerebral palsy, brachial plexus injury, brain injury, spina bifida and spinal cord injuries were tested at the Magee Clinic and with independent collaborating researchers. It became evident during these clinical trials that this program needed to be integrated into a comprehensive management program of strengthening and re-education.
• 1979 - 1988: Neonatologist - The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
  Director Neonatal Follow-up Clinic, Associate Director Division of Biomedical Engineering, President of Medical Staff (1982-1984)
  Research focus: Diagnosis and management of neonatal brain injury and the correlation between neonatal brain damage and later child development.

Academic Appointments - University of Toronto - Associate Professor
Pediatrics - Institute of Biomedical Engineering - Exercise Sciences

Short Biography

BSc in Experimental Psychology and Neurophysiology - McGill University
Medical Degree - University of Toronto
Postgraduate Training - Pediatrics
Specialty - Neonatology (Newborn Intensive Care)

Awarded a Duncan L. Gordon Travelling Fellowship - The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

Year One - Hammersmith Hospital in London, England
Studied neonatal pathology under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Wigglesworth.
Co-authored "Haemorrhage, Ischaemia and the Perinatal Brain", published in 1979.

Year Two - University College Hospital in London
Developed a new technique to detect brain damage in preterm infants. Her publication in Lancet, in 1979, was the first publication of the use of ultrasound brain scans, a technique that is now standard of care in NICU's worldwide.