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 ...

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, 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, 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 ...

Ellen Rukholm is currently the Director of the School of Nursing, Laurentian University. She was the innovator of graduate programs there in Nursing, Health Services and Policy and of a cardiovascular nursing graduate training program. She is principal or co-investigator for CIHR, Health Canada, Ontario Heart and Stroke and Ontario Ministry of Health research grants on cardiovascular health, hospital restructuring, nursing, interventional tele-health and inter-professional education in rural and northern contexts and has over 100 related peer reviewed publications. She chaired the committee ...

Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia

Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, and, since 2017, Director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She also founded and heads the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, a multidisciplinary internationally recognized research centre. For more than 25 years, Dr. Saewyc’s research and public health nursing practice has focused on health equity for marginalized youth, especially for Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/non-binary, and queer (2SLGBTQ+) adolescents and young adults. Dr. Saewyc has ...

Professor, UVIC Nursing, University of Victoria

Dr. Bernie Pauly is a Professor in the University of Victoria's School of Nursing, Associate Director and Scientist of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, and the Island Health Scholar in Residence. A highly engaged community-based researcher, Dr. Pauly is a global leader in substance use, harm reduction and the promotion of health equity for people who use substances at the intersection of poverty and homelessness. She is especially skilled in strategies for engaging and working with people with lived experience and in promoting the adoption of cultural safety and harm ...

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Dr. Sioban Nelson is a nurse historian and an internationally known ‘thought leader’ in Nursing. Professor and Dean of Nursing at the University of Toronto since 2005, she was recruited from the University of Melbourne where she was Head of the School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing Policy and Professional Issues. Known for her groundbreaking scholarship that demonstrated how nursing emerged as a prototype of a new 19th century phenomenon, a female profession, she has author many books, book chapters and articles, and edited the international journal, Nursing Inquiry since 1998. She ...

Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah

Janice Morse is theThe Ida May "Dotty" Barnes, RN, & D. Keith Barnes, MD, Presidential Endowed Chair, College Of Nursing, University of Utah. She holds PhDs in both nursing and anthropology and uses anthropological research methods to explore the illness experience, suffering and the attainment of comfort. Dr. Morse is an authority in qualitative research methods, serves as founding editor for the journal Qualitative Health Research. She has published more than 300 articles and 14 books, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, American Anthropological Association, and the ...