Michel Lacerte MDCM, M.Sc., FRCPC CCRC, DESS, CVRP(D), ICCCP

Dr. Michel Lacerte is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Lacerte graduated in Medicine from McGill University in Montréal in 1983. He did a straight internship in medicine at the Montreal General Hospital before pursuing his PM&R specialty training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. He then completed a two-year research fellowship at the University of Washington which got him interested in industrial ergonomics and vocational rehabilitation. He also staffed the joint PM&R and Neurosurgery Ambulatory Care Clinic at Harbourview Medical Center, the only designated Level 1 adult trauma center in the state of Washington and also known as the hospital that the TV show "Grey's Anatomy" is loosely based on.

Dr. Lacerte joined the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Western Ontario in 1990 as the co-director of the Spinal Cord Injury program at Parkwood Hospital. His primary interest is industrial rehabilitation. In 1990, he spearheaded the development of the Ontario Workers’ Compensation Board’s NonEconomic Loss Evaluation Training Program and was responsible for the training of the Ontario WCB Roster of physicians performing Non-Economic Loss (NEL) medical assessments. In 1992, he authored for the Insurance Bureau of Canda the National Rehabilitation Strategy. In 2012, he was part of the American consultation team to review the WSIB Permanent Impairment internal process.

He is currently an Associate Professor with the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry; and former Associate Director of the Insurance Medicine and Medicolegal Expertise Diploma Program at the Université de Montréal. He is the founder of the Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators. He is the former chair of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pain Rehab Special Interest Group. He is a Canadian certified rehabilitation counsellor (CCRC). I served on the Ontario Protocol for Traffic Injury Management (OPTIMa) Collaboration, Guidelines Expert Panel.

He currently serves as the vice-president of the Canadian Chapter Board of Directors of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals. He is also on the Board of Directors of the College of Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals.

He has a very large active clinical practice in which he diagnoses and medically manages a wide variety of musculoskeletal and neurologic complaints. He is the medical director of EMG London, a community-based electrodiagnostic laboratory.