Faculty Interests

  Interests
Dr. Luisa Barton
Assistant Professor 		Animal-Human Health, Medial Cannabis, Mental Health, Sexual Health, Topics in Higher Education Administration and Learning.
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 		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
Assistant Professor 		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 		Violence/abuse, Women’s health, Public/community health, Online teaching/learning, Ethics/ethical practice, Nursing research, Nursing issues, Interpretive research methodologies (hermeneutics, phenomenology).
Dr. Georgia Dewart
Assistant Professor 		Harm reduction, STBBIs prevention and treatment, Narrative inquiry, Systematic reviews, Health equity, Nursing education, Women’s health
Dr. William Diehl-Jones
Associate Professor 		Research: diseases of prematurity; preterm infant feeding, oxidatve stress; gene expression Teaching: pathophysiology; pharmacology; physical assessment; advanced practice
Dr. Emily Doyle
Academic 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 		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 		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
Interim Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor 		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 		Pediatrics (Oncology), Public health, Online teaching/learning, Transforming practitioners into educators, Student engagement.
Dr. Paul Jerry
Associate Dean Student Services, Professor 		Counsellor education, psychodynamic counselling, transpersonal psychology, and case-study research.
Dr. Steven Johnson
Associate Professor 		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
Associate Professor 		Older adults, dementia, pain measurement, health services research, systematic reviews and quantitative methods
Dr. Kimberley Lamarche
Associate Professor 		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 		Older adults, psychiatric/mental health nursing, leadership and management
Dr. Kathleen Leslie
Assistant Professor 		Health policy, health law, professional regulation, scopes of practice, continuing competence, health systems reform, comparative legal analysis, nursing jurisprudence, ethics
Dr. Sherri Melrose
Associate Professor 		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 		Qualitative Research, Supportive environments in online learning, Arts-based pedagogies
Dr. Terra Murray
Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Assistant Professor 		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
Program Director (MHS & MN:Gen), Professor 		Online Teaching Strategies, Technology Enhanced Clinical Education, Mobile Learning, Evidence based Practice.
Dr. Beth Perry
Professor 		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
Director of PE Platform (AbSPORU), Academic Coordinator 		Frailty and Older Adults; Patient Engagement; Patient and Family-Centred Care; and Leadership
Dr. Gwen Rempel
Chair, Graduate Programs
Associate Professor 		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 		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 Professor

Nursing theory/philosophy, pedagogical concerns in nursing education, practice readiness, internationally educated nurses/health care workers.

Jennifer Stephens
Assistant Professor 		Oncology (specifically haematological cancers in adults) and psychosocial oncology, Oncology nursing practice, History of nursing/History of oncology and of oncology nursing, Qualitative research (specifically interpretive description and phenomenology), Patient experience (identity, personality, personhood, self/being/Being, women’s experience), Nursing theory (epistemology and ontology), Environmental concerns around oncology care (specific to nursing practice), Palliative and hospice care including Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
Dr. Lorraine Thirsk
Academic Coordinator 		Family nursing – generalist and advanced practice, palliative care, chronic disease, nurse decision-making, cognitive bias, organizational behavior, mixed methodology, philosophy.
Dr. Jeff Vallance
Professor 		Physical activity, cancer survivorship, sedentary behavior, accelerometers, chronic disease, and health promotion.
Dr. Virginia Vandall-Walker
Associate Professor 		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 		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
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.