Dr. Amanda Kleisinger BKIN, MD, FRCPC, CSCN Diplomate (EMG)
Assistant Professor Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; UGME Regina Clinical Skills Lead & Clerkship Electives Director

Education

• Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Saskatchewan, 2017
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 2017
• Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists EMG Diplomate, 2017
• MD, University of Saskatchewan - 2012
• B Kinesiology and Health Study (High Honors), University of Regina - 2008

Biography
Dr. Kleisinger grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan. She received a Bachelor's of Kinesiology and Health Studies with High Honors from the University of Regina in 2008. She volunteered in the recreation and veterans program at the Wascana Rehabilitation Centre throughout her undergraduate degree and found an interest in rehabilitation, persons with disabilities, and recreation therapy. She then graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in 2012. Dr. Kleisinger completed a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and graduated as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 2017. She achieved an additional designation for electrodiagnostics with the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists (CSCN) for the diagnosis and management of neuromuscular disease.

Dr. Kleisinger is the Regina site lead for the University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME) year 2 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) program Skills Day, and the UGME year 3 and 4 student elective and selective rotations in PM&R.

• Dance, Musical, Performance and Sports Medicine
• Neuromuscular Medicine and Electrodiagnostics
• Musculoskeletal Medicine and Ultrasound Guided Intervention
• Pediatric Rehabilitation and Adolescent Transition to Adult Care
• Focal Spasticity and Dystonia Assessment and Management
• Technology in Medicine

• Linassi G, Kennedy R, Kleisinger A. Atypical cause for neuropathic pain in a person with a chronic traumatic spinal cord injury. Poster presented at the 64th CAPM&R Annual Scientific Meeting, London ON, May 2016.  Received an honourable mention in the case reports category.  Abstract to be published in J Rehabil Med.
• Kleisinger A, Karreman E, Fink M. Are the Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) blood pressure treatment targets achieved during admission for stroke rehabilitation? Poster presented at the 63rd CAPM&R Annual Scientific Meeting, Vancouver, May 2015. J Rehabil Med. 2016;48(1):99.
• Candow DG, Kleisinger AK, Grenier S, Dorsch KD. 2009. Effect of sugar-free Red Bull energy drink on high-intensity run time-to-exhaustion in young adults. J Strength Cond Res. 23(4): 1271-5.