Professeure titulaire, Faculté des sciences infirmières, University of Montreal

Dr. Bilkis Vissandjée is a Full Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Montreal. She is a researcherat the SHERPA frontline research Centre, the Montreal Centre for International Studies, and the Centre for Public Health Research funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS). Alongside national and international partners, her research work's focus is to address the challenges associated with providing accessible, equitable, and quality care within a diversified socio-cultural context while taking into account the complex intersection of gender, migration ...

Professor, University of British Columbia

Dr. Wong is a Professor in the School of Nursing and the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia. Dr. Wong’s contributions as a scholar and leader in primary care research are widely recognized, nationally and internationally. She serves as the co-chair for the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network, playing a central role in the development of a primary care federated clinical electronic medical record repository that can be used for research, disease surveillance and quality improvement. She has a long-standing commitment to health and ...

VP Research, Innovation & Discovery & Chief Nurse Executive, Nova Scotia Health

Dr. Tomblin Murphy is an experienced health leader and an internationally recognized expert in population needs-based approaches to health systems and workforce planning, evaluation and research. She is the Vice President of Research, Innovation and Discovery, and Chief Nurse Executive at Nova Scotia Health. She currently serves on the National COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Leadership Group, as well as directs the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research at Dalhousie University. An active researcher and champion of research and innovation in healthcare, she leads ...

Prof. Medicine, James McGill Chair & Medical Scientist, McGill University

Robyn Tamblyn has been an international leader in education. Following her PhD at McGill University, she continued her work at McGill on performance assessment but crucially began to analyze data about patient safety and public protection. Over two decades, she clarified the validity of medical licensing examinations; used health insurance data to clarify the reasons behind poor prescribing practices; and pioneered two integrated health data systems, IRIS-Quebec and Medical Office of the 21? Century (MOXXI), to improve prescribing practices and the quality and safety of health care for ...

Professor, University of British Columbia

Renowned Canadian leader and advocate on women's health promotion with an emphasis on violence against women, and the promotion of ethical, socially just health care. She has made substantial inroads in our understanding of the health consequences of violence, including health care policy and practice in response to violence. She has informed the measurement of discrimination and the advancement of the concept of cultural safety in health care in Canada. Author of over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and books, she presents provincially, nationally and internationally to diverse ...

Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia

Sally Thorne is Professor Emeritus at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her research emphasis is the human experience of chronic illness and cancer, especially as it intersects with the structural and ideological underpinnings of our health care delivery system. She also maintains an active program of research in end-of-life care and the evolving implications of medical assistance in dying. She maintains active community involvements, bridging the theoretical enterprise to social action and policy processes. She is an expert in the application of ...

Professor, School of Nursing, University of Victoria

Dr. Kelli Stajduhar, RN, PhD, FCAHS, professor in the School of Nursing and Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria, and research scientist with Fraser Health. She has worked in oncology, palliative care, and gerontology for almost 30 years as a practicing nurse, educator, and researcher. Her clinical practice and research has focused on health service needs for those at the end-of-life and their families, and on the needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations. Dr. Stajduhar has 300+ academic publications and presentations. She is currently the lead ...

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Bonnie Stevens is Professor at the University of Toronto and Signy Hildur Eaton Chair at the Hospital for Sick Children. She has developed an outstanding nationally funded research program focusing on (i) pain assessment and management in infants and children; (ii) the evaluation of models of health care delivery to children with chronic disease; and (iii) the exploration of the determinants of research utilization in nursing practice. She is the recipient of several research awards, including the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Canadian Pain Society New Investigator Award, and ...

Professor, CRC, Acting Vice Dean, University of Alberta

Dr. Shannon Scott is an internationally recognized nurse, scientist, educator and knowledge translation leader. As the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation for Children's Health, Dr. Scott has improved health outcomes for children through her interdisciplinary research that merges research and the arts to develop national award winning mHealth tools for Canadian families. She is a founding co-Director of Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) a national initiative that is game changing for children's emergency care. She has successfully trained multiple scientists and ...

Full Professor, University of Ottawa

Dawn Stacey is an internationally renowned researcher enabling impact on practice and policy through advancing the science of supporting patients' involvement in making healthcare decisions. She leads national and international initiatives to synthesize evidence and develop standards for translating scientific knowledge into patient decision-aids, and has created innovative implementation resources including decision coaching protocols and online training programs. Her evidence-based knowledge tools and learning activities are publicly available, used in clinical practice and for continuing ...