| Interests | |
|---|---|
| Dr. Jeff Chang Program Director & Associate Professor |
School-based mental health, services to Aboriginal persons, narrative and solution-focused therapies, counsellor education and supervision, couples therapy, psychological services in family law / high-conflict divorce situations. |
| Donna Clare Academic Coordinator
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On-line education and course design, practice and research ethics, the politics of healthcare systems, NP role integration in primary care, primary care models, client-centred care, NP networks, advocacy and promotion of the role. |
| Dr. Sandra Collins Professor |
Multicultural counselling, social justice, counselling women and lesbians, distance/online education, career development, counsellor education, and program planning and evaluation. |
| Dr. Karen Cook Associate Professor
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Youth and young adults; Transitions from pediatric to adult services; Public health approach to palliative care; Decision-making; Complex health conditions and family support; Indigenous ways of knowing; Circle of Security; Qualitative and mixed methodologies; Narrative medicine and therapy. |
| Lynn Corcoran Assistant Professor
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Violence/abuse, Women’s health, Public/community health, Online teaching/learning, Ethics/ethical practice, Nursing research, Nursing issues, Interpretive research methodologies (hermeneutics, phenomenology). |
| Dr. William Diehl-Jones Associate Professor
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Research: diseases of prematurity; preterm infant feeding, oxidatve stress; gene expression Teaching: pathophysiology; pharmacology; physical assessment; advanced practice |
| Dr. Emily Doyle Academic Coordinator/Practicum Coordinator |
Systemic family therapy; narrative therapy; solution-focused counselling; addictions and trauma research; discourse analysis; institutional ethnography; qualitative inquiry |
| Dr. Margaret Edwards Dean (Faculty of Health Disciplines) Professor
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Older adult caregivers and their care recipients, Health informatics, Exemplary online educators, Program evaluation, mixed methodology |
| Debbie Fraser Program Director (MN: NP & PMD: NP) Associate Professor
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Advanced practice nursing, nurse practitioner roles, on-line learning and teaching, high-risk newborns, late-preterm infants, neonatal infections, neonatal respiratory disease, patient safety. |
| Dr. Shawn Fraser Associate Professor
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Health psychology, physiological and behavioural responses to stress, determinants of physical activity and other health-related behaviours, multivariate modelling, wearable technologies. |
| Regan Hack Academic Coordinator
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Pediatrics (Oncology), Public health, Online teaching/learning, Transforming practitioners into educators, Student engagement. |
| Dr. Paul Jerry Associate Professor |
Counsellor education, psychodynamic counselling, transpersonal psychology, and case-study research. |
| Dr. Steven Johnson Associate Professor
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Healthy eating and active living for chronic disease management; walking; pedometers; accelerometers; type 2 diabetes; gestational diabetes; obesity; health promotion; health services delivery |
| Dr. Jennifer Knopp-Sihota Assistant Professor
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Older adults, dementia, pain measurement, health services research, systematic reviews and quantitative methods |
| Dr. Kimberley Lamarche Assistant Professor
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Job satisfaction and role transition for PHC NPs, mobile technology in clinical practice and learning, online education methods, NP-specific clinical outcomes and pharmaceutical influences for NPs. |
| Dr. Annette Lane Associate Professor
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Older adults, psychiatric/mental health nursing, leadership and management |
| Dr. Sherri Melrose Associate Professor
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Clinical teaching, teaching and learning in health professions, online education, professional socialization, LPN to BN transitions, psychiatric mental health nursing, co-occurring developmental disabilities and mental illness |
| Dr. Sharon Moore Professor
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Qualitative Research, Supportive environments in online learning, Arts-based pedagogies |
| Dr. Terra Murray Program Director (MHS & MN:Gen) Assistant Professor
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Physical activity and exercise adoption and maintenance, social cognitive theories, self-efficacy, perceptions of control, health behavior change |
| Dr. Simon Nuttgens Associate Professor |
Ethics and stength-based practices in mental healthcare; child, adolescent, and family therapy; narrative inquiry; postmodernism in counselling; multicultural counselling; evidence-based practice. |
| Dr. Caroline Park Professor
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Online Teaching Strategies, Technology Enhanced Clinical Education, Mobile Learning, Evidence based Practice. |
| Dr. Beth Perry Professor
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Exemplary nursing care, compassion fatigue in oncology nurses and in older adult family caregivers, excellence in online teaching, use of arts-based teaching strategies in online teaching, use of mobile technology in online teaching, use of mobile technologies by older adults |
| Jananee Rasiah Academic Coordinator & Director of PE Platform (AbSPORU)
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Frailty and Older Adults; Patient Engagement; Patient and Family-Centred Care; and Leadership |
| Dr. Gwen Rempel Chair, Graduate Programs Associate Professor
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Parenting children with complex health issues; Family resilience; Family management; Relationship-based parenting - Circle of Security; Transition from pediatric to adult care; Qualitative research including grounded theory and interpretive description |
| Dawn Mercer Riselli Academic Coordinator
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Community/public health, Rural generalist practice, Epidemiology, Family health, Maternal/child nursing, Breastfeeding, Vaccination, Nursing administration, Leadership/management, Nursing Education, Quantitative and mixed methodologies. |
| Dr. Donna Romyn Associate Vice-President Research and Associate Professor
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Nursing theory/philosophy, pedagogical concerns in nursing education, practice readiness, internationally educated nurses/health care workers. |
| Dr. Jeff Vallance Associate Professor
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Physical activity, cancer survivorship, sedentary behavior, accelerometers, chronic disease, and health promotion. |
| Dr. Virginia Vandall-Walker Associate Professor
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Clinical: Family Nursing; Family-focussed Critical Care; End-Of-Life Experiences; Patient/Family Information Needs; Nursing Support for Family Members; Prostate Surgery; Clinical Teaching Educational: Online Debating; Integration of Family Content in Clinical and Theoretical Coursework; Aboriginal Online Learners Research Methodologies/Techniques: Grounded Theory; Interpretive Analysis; Content Analysis; Qualitative Description; Data Collection with Individuals, Dyads, Family Units, & Focus Groups Philolsophical: Moderate Realism; Critical Realism; Pragmatism; Symbolic Interactionism; Systems Theory |
| Adrienne Weare Academic Coordinator
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Mental health (acute and forensic), Maternal/child health, Midwifery, Community health, Community development, Non-profit community endeavours, the student experience in online education. |
| Dr. Gina Wong Associate Professor |
The Circle of Security training and evaluation; maternal mental health and wellness, issues of mothering; cross-cultural awareness; body image, disordered eating; reflective practice in counsellor education and development and qualitative methods of research. |
Updated July 12 2018 by Student & Academic Services
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