Marge Coahran

Senior Technical Coordinator
Indoc Research, Toronto, ON

Email: mcoahran [at] dgp [dot] toronto [dot] edu

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Toronto
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Work (past): Sept 2018 - Sept 2020
Research Methods Specialist, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, CAMH and Toronto Dementia Research Alliance
Projects: Dementia Clinical Research Database, Subject Registry (Neuroinformatics Platform)

Aug 2013 - Sept 2018
Research Associate, IATSL Lab, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Projects: Stroke rehabilitation robot, Automatic fall detection, Sensory conflict neuro-rehabilitation

April 2013 - Aug 2013
Software Developer, Dept of Occupational Sciences and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto
Projects: Software for motor learning experiments using a haptic stylus

Aug 1998 - Aug 2002
Software Developer, Office of Health Promotion Research, University of Vermont,
Projects: Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance System

Teaching: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dickinson College (2010-2012)
COMP131: Introduction to Computer Science I (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
COMP132: Introduction to Computer Science II (Spring 2012)
COMP251: Computer Organization and Architecture (Fall 2011)
COMP332: Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2010)
COMP394: Computer Graphics (Spring 2011)

Department of Computer Science, Grinnell College (2006-2010)
CSC105: The Digital Age (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010)
CSC152: Fundamentals of Computer Science II (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
CSC161: Imperative Problem Solving and Data Structures (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
CSC201: Memory Management, Data Representation, Formal Methods (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009)
CSC211: Computer Organization and Architecture (Fall 2007, Fall 2009)
CSC295: Computer Graphics (Spring 2009)
CSC301: Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
MAT/SST115-01: Introduction to Statistics (Spring 2010)

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
CSC180: Introduction to Computer Programming, Fall 2005
CSC180: Introduction to Computer Programming, Fall 2004
Software: BargelloSketcher 1.0: Easy-to-use software for designing Bargello quilts. Free download for Windows. Launched: August 2011.
Publications: Coahran, M., Hillier, L.M., Van Bussel, L., Black, E., Churchyard, R., Gutmanis, I., Iannou, Y., Michael, K., Ross, T., and Mihailidis, A. Automated fall detection technology in inpatient geriatric psychiatry: Nurses' perceptions and lessons learned. Canadian Journal on Aging, 37, 1-16, (2018).

Zariffa, J., Myers, M., Coahran, M., and Wang, R. Smallest real differences for robotic measures of upper extremity function after stroke: implications for tracking recovery. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, (2018).

Dolatabadi, E., Zhi, Y.X., Ye, B., Coahran, M., Lupinacci, G., Mihailidis, A., Wang, R., and Taati, B. The Toronto rehab stroke pose dataset to detect compensation during stroke rehabilitation therapy. Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies fo Healthcare. 375-381, (May 2017).

Richandi, G.E., Keshavarz, B., Coahran, M., Taati, B., and Campos, J. Using the "Rubber Hand Illusion" to characterize multisensory perceptions of body ownership and body location following stroke. International Journal of Stroke, 10, 80-81, (2015).

Computer-Assisted Bargello Quilt Design, M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, September, 2005. Supervised by Eugene Fiume.

Coahran, M. and Fiume, E. Sketch-based design for Bargello quilts, Eurographics Symposium Proceedings: Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, 165-174 (Sept. 2005).

Coahran, M. and Colbourn, C.J. Maximum and average access cost in double erasure RAID disk arrays, Proc. 35th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (April 2004), Congressus Numerantium, 167, 209-219.
Workshops: Coahran, M. and Davis, J. "Circuits and Microcontrollers in Computer Organization Laboratories," ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (March 2012).
Education: M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2005
B.S. Physics (Phi Beta Kappa), University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 1987
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