Douglas Misener Ed.D

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, and to nonprofit healthcare, medical, and rehabilitation case management organizations. He has been called an expert witness in vocational rehabilitation, clinical, and rehabilitation psychology, and employability issues to the 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 for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Dr. Misener has lectured widely on vocational rehabilitation, stress and pain management, recovery from a sports injury, optimizing performance, adjustment to disability, return to work, and employability issues.