Biography:

 

Dr. Isla Shill is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the UVic Concussion Lab (Christie Lab) within the School of Medical Sciences and the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria supervised by Dr. Brian Christie. Her research focuses on the prevention and rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and sport-related concussion (hereafter concussion) within a population health framework, with a specific emphasis on sex- and gender-based differences in injury mechanism, symptomology, and recovery trajectories. Dr. Shill completed her MSc in Kinesiology with a Specialization in Sports Medicine (2020) and her PhD in Kinesiology with a Specialization in Sports Medicine (2024) at the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre (SIPRC) in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. Her graduate research focused on injury and concussion prevention in girls’ high school rugby. Her training spans kinesiology, epidemiology, biostatistics, intervention evaluation, and longitudinal cohort methodologies. This interdisciplinary background has enabled her to integrate multiple perspectives to address concussion-related challenges in adolescents, and, in her Post-Doctoral Fellowship work, to broaden across the lifespan and the spectrum of TBI. Dr. Shill was invited as the methods author for the concussion and head acceleration event prevention and modification risk factor systematic review that informed recommendations for concussion prevention in the 2025 Female, woman and/or girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) Consensus, co-led by Prof Carolyn Emery and Prof Kay Crossley.