Let’s Talk Vestibular - A Live Series for Healthcare Professionals

Sonia Vovan is a registered physiotherapist and vestibular therapist with over a decade of clinical expertise in concussion management and vestibular rehabilitation. She is currently pursuing her PhD at York University, focusing on sex differences in post-concussion recovery.

Sonia is passionate about education and mentorship, regularly teaching and training healthcare professionals in vestibular rehabilitation and concussion care. She serves as Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto's Department of Physical Therapy, where she teaches in the neurological unit and vestibular selective. She has delivered keynote presentations internationally and serves as an Executive Member of the Neurosciences Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. Her expertise has been featured in CBC interviews and professional publications.

Kregg has been a registered physical therapist since 1995. Over the years, his caseload has evolved from exclusively orthopedic care to a blend of orthopedic and vestibular rehabilitation. With this background, he has established a strong reputation in concussion management, having treated athletes in the NFL, CFL, collegiate ranks, WHL, high school athletics, and the dedicated weekend warrior.

In 1998, he completed his first course in vestibular rehabilitation. In 2008, he fulfilled all requirements of the Vestibular Rehabilitation: A Competency-Based Course at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Since then, he has pursued extensive continuing education throughout North America in orthopedics, traumatic brain injury, and vestibular therapy. In 2025, he earned the designation of Advanced Vestibular Physical Therapist (AVPT) through the University of Pittsburgh.

Given his commitment to ongoing education and evidence-based practice, Kregg has been invited to teach weekend courses and present at conferences throughout North America and Europe. He looks forward to sharing what he has learned over the years to help other clinicians achieve better outcomes in less time.

In 2010, Kregg founded North 49 Physical Therapy and the North 49 Balance & Dizziness Centre in his hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. What began as a single-clinician practice has grown to a team of six physical therapists, with more than half of the clinic’s caseload consisting of patients with dizziness and balance disorders. The clinic collaborates closely with a trusted network of consultants, including specialists in otolaryngology, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, audiology, occupational therapy, psychology, and neuropsychology.

Too many people live with dizziness unnecessarily, and Kregg’s goal is to help change that.

A Registered Massage Therapist since 2000, Jules Poulin has spent the last 12 years taking courses throughout North America as well as studying, researching and writing her own courses on TMJ Rehabilitation.

In 2018, she opened From the Neck Up: North America’s first and only massage clinic dedicated to the rehabilitation of the jaw, head, neck, voice, tongue and ears. With the advent of Covid and having a practice which consists of mostly intra-oral massage, Jules led her team through innovative ways to treat the tissues of the mouth while using PPE, all the while following Public Health and Ministry of Health recommendations ensuring both that patients and practitioners were safe during intra-oral treatments without compromising the integrity and efficacy of the treatments.

Carolyn is the co-owner of Reframe Rehab, a teaching company engaged in breaking down the barriers internationally between pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science. Carolyn has practiced in orthopaedics and pelvic health for the past 37 years. She is a McKenzie Credentialled physiotherapist (1999), certified in acupuncture (2002), and obtained a certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in 2017.

Carolyn received the YWCA Women of Distinction award (2004) and the distinguished Education Award from the OPA (2015). Carolyn was recently awarded the Medal of Distinction from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association in 2021 for her work in pelvic health and pain science.

Carolyn has been heavily involved in post-graduate pelvic health education, research in lumbopelvic pain, speaking at numerous international conferences and writing books and chapters for the past twenty years in pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science.