Distnguished Professor Emerita, Western University

Helene Berman, RN, PhD, is a Distinguished University Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. Her program of research, funded by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Status of Women Canada, has focused on the subtle and explicit forms of violence in the lives of girls and young women. In recent years, she has extended that work to include boys and young men and led a CIHR Team Grant, Promoting Health through Collaborative Engagement ...

Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan

Joan Bottorff is one of Canada’s leading scientists in the field of health behavior. She is currently Professor and Director of the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, and has been the recipient of a UBC Distinguished University Scholar Award and a CIHR Investigator Award. She has developed active research programs in tobacco control, cancer screening and health promotion. In the field of gender and health, Dr. Bottorff is also collaborating on projects to examine gender-related influences on women and men's ...

Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia

Annette Browne is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing. A renowned Canadian leader and advocate for quality care for Indigenous and non Indigenous peoples, her research is transforming care for people most impacted by health inequities, including racism, discrimination and stigma. Partnerships with Indigenous leaders and healthcare agencies are foundational to her research program, resulting in the development of ground-breaking strategies that are directly impacting initiatives and policies to improve healthcare and health ...

Dr. Alex Clark is Professor and Associate Dean, Research in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. In this role, he also provides leadership for the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. His research relates to prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, drawing on complex theory and other innovative methods to understand outcomes in populations with coronary heart disease. His work has directly contributed to healthcare practice, policy and guidelines nationally an internationally. He is currently Vice-President of the International Network for Doctoral ...

Interim College Dean & Vice Provost, HS, University of Alberta

Greta G. Cummings is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta; New Investigator, CIHR; Population Health Investigator, AHFMR, and an international leader in healthcare leadership science. She is principal investigator of the CLEAR Outcomes (Connecting Leadership, Education, & Research) Research Program. Her contributions to knowledge development about leadership practices and their impact on outcomes for nurses and patients have been acknowledged by the Canadian Nurses Association, from which she received the 2010 Order of Merit for Research. She has also received awards of ...

School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

Vice Dean-Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Founder of an innovative Nursing Best Practice Research Centre. Her awards include: the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Practice/Academe Innovative Collaborative award; Health Services Research Career Scientist; Ontario Premier's Research Excellence; and Distinguished Alumni University of Toronto. Her internationally recognized leadership and research has brought research results into health services to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes. Notably, she has built widely-used sustainability and spread ...

Professor & Canada Research Chair, University of Alberta

Carole Estabrooks holds a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and is recognized internationally as a leader in knowledge translation science. A past member and vice-chair of the CIHR Institute of Aging Advisory Board, she directs the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on developing practical solutions for improving the quality of care provided to LTC residents, for enriching the work life of their caregivers, and for enhancing system efficiencies and effectiveness. She does this by advancing knowledge translation and improvement ...

Full Professor & OHTN Chair, University of Ottawa

Dr Etowa’s career is rooted in a strong conviction that social justice and equitable healthcare are the cornerstones of a healthy society. Her distinctive competencies in community-based participatory research and intersectionality lens have informed her research program, grounded in over 25 years of clinical practice. Her antiracist healthcare practice book is described as ‘the first of its kind in the Canadian literature’ (2009). She co-edited the indigenized edition of Community Health Nursing… (2020). To advance health sciences, she spearheaded institutional policy and program changes at ...

Professor, McGill University

Pioneer in academic nursing in Canada. She was a key player in the development of the McGill Model of Nursing, now widely used worldwide, and has further developed that into practice and training of nurses and other health care professionals. Editor for over two decades of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, she has brought nursing leaders from across Canada together through the journal. With numerous invitations as a visiting professor she is recognized internationally as a leader in health care.  

Professor and Founding Dean, University of Regina

Dean, Faculty of Nursing and recognized expert on the social and cultural determinants of health, particularly in Aboriginal communities. Prolific scholar, educator and clinician, he is one of Canada's foremost leaders in nursing education, having played instrumental roles in the development of Faculties of Nursing in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, establishing innovative community education programs and effective partnerships among post-secondary institutions. His research focuses on Aboriginal health and education, qualitative research methodologies, men in nursing and medical anthropology.