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Jodi Steele

Professor, Niagara College

HealthOn TechTO stages since 2017

Jodi Steele is a physiotherapist and Niagara College professor who has taught rehab techniques in oncology since 2007. She founded the not-for-profit Cancer Rehab Inc. in 2005, designed Wellspring's cancer exercise program, and co-created Transforming Fitness, an exercise-prescription course for transgender and gender-diverse people.

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Who is Jodi Steele?

A physiotherapist and professor at Niagara College, where she teaches in the fitness, personal support worker, OT/PT assistant, massage therapy and international nursing programs. She won the college's Educator of the Year award in 2023.

What is Transforming Fitness?

An online exercise-prescription course for transgender and gender-diverse people, presented at HealthTO in 2017. It pairs a client's aesthetic transition goals with exercise parameters shown to improve mental health.

What else has she built?

Cancer Rehab Inc., a not-for-profit she founded in 2005 that was for four years the only clinic in Canada offering specialised cancer rehabilitation, and Wellspring's cancer exercise program, now at five southern Ontario locations.

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