Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Region’s Practice Lead Team

Maria Rachevits is a Practice Lead for the Rapid Access Low Back Pain clinic Sunnybrook North Toronto region and an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist in the Hip and Knee Arthritis program at the Holland Center. She holds a Summa cum Laude medical degree from the Kiev Medical University (Ukraine) and a BSc (PT) degree from the University of Toronto (2003). She worked as an emergency physician in Bulgaria and Belgium before immigrating to Canada. She has twice won a grant provided by the European Union for a fellowship training in emergency medicine in Belgium. Currently she provides leadership to two Advanced Practice Providers in the RAC LBP model of care, has co-authored published papers on spine and hip/knee related research and has a few publications and delivered presentations on the topic of low back pain to specialized and general public audiences. She has received a PBR grant as a principle Investigator for “Telemedicine triage and Consultation in the Era of Pandemic” in 2022. Maria participated in the development of the Virtual Spine Assessment Toolkit by Bone and Joint Canada in 2021. She is a clinical instructor status only appointment at the Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine at U of T.