Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Room 131 - Health Sciences Addition
London, Ontario, Canada - N6A 5C1
519-661-3395

Administration and Administrative Staff

• Andrusyszyn, Mary-Anne - Director
• Forchuk, Cheryl - Associate Director of Nursing Research
• Riddell, Thelma - Chair, Undergraduate Programs
• Kerr, Mickey - Chair, Graduate Programs
• Delgado, Myriam - Coordinator, Academic Programs
• Hambides, Courtney - Graduate Programs Assistant
• Hoffer, Ann - Administrative Assistant (Director's Office)
• Law, Angela - Administrative Assistant to the Associate Director (Nursing Research)
• Leach, Sue - Undergraduate Practice Placement Coordinator
• Litzan, Denice - Academic Counsellor, Undergraduate Programs
• McCrady, Wendy - MN Program Coordinator
• McKay, Sandra - Undergraduate Programs Assistant
• Patrick, Nancy - Manager, Finance and Administration
• Trudgeon, Tiffany - Secretary / Receptionist
• Wagler, Michelle - Placement Coordinator, Requirements & Information

Full-Time Faculty Members

Faculty Member	Research/Clinical Interests	Supervision Level
Andrusyszyn, Mary-Anne	Leadership, flexible delivery, reflection, and evaluation (student/faculty) Mentorship; clinical teaching; technology in nursing education	Master's and PhD
Anthony, Susan	Teaching and learning Faculty development Teaching consultation Curriculum and course development Information literacy and the scholarly process Nursing's engagement in interprofessional education	N/A
Babenko-Mould, Yolanda	Canadian and international involvement in nursing education Development of educational resources for use by clinical teachers in Canada and Rwanda Internationally-educated nursing students Clinical teacher and nursing student empowerment Clinical teachers’ use of empowering behaviours Nursing students’ self-efficacy for professional practice Nursing students’ self-efficacy for computer-mediated learning in online environments Civility in nursing education contexts	Master's
Berman, Helene	Violence in the lives of girls and young women Experience of uprooting, displacement and health in the lives of homeless girls, Aboriginal girls and newcomer girls in Ontario The transition to motherhood among women who have experienced past trauma Systemic and structural violence and the intersections among race, gender, class and health	Master's and PhD
Denomy, Eileen	Outcome measurement with the Compressed Time Frame BScN Program Modelling clinical excellence among clinical instructors	N/A
Dietrich, Pamela	Women's health issues Mother-daughter relationship and loss Vulnerable families Violence against women and children Addictions counselling Postpartum mood disorders Service learning in undergraduate nursing education	N/A
Donelle, Lorie (on sabbatical)	Health promotion Health literacy of health care providers and clients Health information technology use among health care providers and clients	Master's
Evans, Marilyn	Issues related to women, child and family health and health promotion including: Reproductive health Ethical decision making Community health Diabetes prevention	Master's and PhD
Ferguson, Karen	Client empowerment Preceptorship Simulation as a teaching modality Professional integrity	N/A
Forchuk, Cheryl	Issues related to community integration for people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness, including: Therapeutic relationships Social Support Housing/Homelessness	Master's and PhD
Ford-Gilboe, Marilyn	Health, health inequities and capacities of women and families, particularly those living in conditions of marginalization Intimate Partner Violence and Trauma (health, social and economic consequences; health care responses; effectiveness of services and interventions; women’s experiences in diverse social contexts) Rural women’s health Testing Innovative, Complex Primary Health Care, Community Health and Population Health Interventions Developmental Model of Health and Nursing – empowerment oriented family and community health nursing approaches	Master's and PhD
George-Michel, Karen	Effective Nursing Leadership, Administration, Management Practices Organizational Theory, Frameworks, Structures, Processes Change, Change Agency, Change Artistry	N/A
Hancock, Michele	Use of simulation as a method of teaching and learning	N/A
Iwasiw, Carroll	Leadership in nursing education Clinical teaching/learning Nursing education Curriculum development and evaluation Mentorship Faculty development	Master's and PhD
Jackson, Kimberley	Women, child and family health Issues pertaining to breastfeeding Utilization of randomized controlled trials to evaluate nursing interventions Antenatal and postpartum mood disorders	N/A
Kerr, Michael	Models of care Nursing intervention studies Work organization Job stress Epidemiology	Master's and PhD
Laschinger, Heather	New graduate nurses' transition to professional practice Creating empowering nursing work environments Workplace incivility and bullying in nursing practice and education Leadership development Empowerment in nursing education Promoting effective interprofessional collaboration and practice	Master's and PhD
Leipert, Beverly	Women's health and empowerment Rural women's health Aging and women's health Community health nursing Social determinants of women's health Health promotion Social justice with and for vulnerable populations Policy and health Qualitative research methodologies including the development and refinement of new methodologies such as photovoice (includes the collecting and consideration of photographs as research data and as empowerment)	Master's and PhD
McWilliam, Carol	Health promotion, particularly aiming to refine health care practice and policy to achieve greater independence and resource for every day living among older people Promotion of quality, client-centred care and service delivery to those receiving in-home care Knowledge translation through social interaction	Master's and PhD
Moore-Hepburn, Judith	Chronic illness, coping, resilience, quality of life.	N/A
Orchard, Carole	Knowledge Development of collaborative client-centred teamwork The process students, faculty and health practitioners adopt to transform from multidisciplinary to interprofessional collaborative practice Linking research to other countries	Master's and PhD
Oudshoorn, Abe	Health promotion Critical ethnography Qualitative methods Participatory action research Poverty and health Homelessness Critical theory Mental health Gerontology	N/A
Platt, Nancy	Influence of simulation on clinical skill acquisition	N/A
Ray, Susan	Psychological trauma on contemporary peacekeepers and their families Collective Violence among immigrant/refugee population and survivors of natural disasters Efficacy of interventions for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other related morbidity Male survivors of sexual abuse/incest Homelessness among Canadian and Allied Forces Veterans Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life	Master's and PhD
Regan, Sandra	Health human resources (HHR) policy, planning and management New graduate nurse beginning practice	Master's and PhD
Reid, David	Teaching with technology	N/A
Riddell, Thelma	Rural women's health Woman abuse Homelessness	N/A
Sinclair, Barbara	Use of Simulation as a method of teaching and learning Use of technology to promote learning	N/A
Timbrell, Jessica	Nursing education Simulated learning	N/A
Ward-Griffin, Catherine	Women's health Community-based care Understanding how the social determinants of health intersect and shape the experiences of women and men as they age The Intersections between paid and unpaid care work	Master's and PhD
Wong, Carol	Impact of leadership (specifically authentic leadership) on staff/nurse and client outcomes Study of the nature of clinical nursing leadership within interdisciplinary models of care Systematic reviews of the literature Theory-testing and structural equation modeling Educational models that are most effective in preparing future leaders Knowledge translation strategies of leaders and role in policy formation Decisional involvement - leader structural and organizational characteristics linked to decisional involvement and policy formation within organizations Organizational structure and governance features and role configurations that best support positive work environments for health care professionals	Master's and PhD

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty Member	Clinical Specialty/Research Interests
Berg, Selinda	Sports Nutrition Consultant. Research interests: Promotion of academic integrity to the Millennials; and literacy.
Bettger-Hahn, Margo	Breast care and plastic surgery prgrams. Orthopaedics, general surgery and public health. Research interest: developing further information and support for women and men diagnosed with breast cancer.
Bewick, Diane	Leadership in public health programs and services, professional growth and nursing development. Public health and community health nursing. Research interests: Leadership in Health Care; Health Human resourcesCommunity Health care issues, reforms and community impact.
Beynon, Charlene	Theory based public health nursing practice, organizational development partnerships, interdisciplinary practice and benchmarking. Public Helath Research education and development program. Research interests: Health care administration;and partnership between service and education.
Bradish, Grace	Advance Home Care. Oncology nursing care for patients with complex cancers. Research interests: children with cystic fibrosis and diabetes; immunosuppression; transition from paediatric to adult care; ambulatory cancer care delivery; and erythropoeitin therapy in cancer related anemia.
Campbell, Karen	Physiotherapy. Advance Practice Nurse specialized geriatric program. Research interests: Rehabilitation Nursing; Disability and health.
Coatsworth-Puspoky, Robin	Mental health and geriatric psychiatry in both hospital and community settings. Research interests: nurse-client and peer support relationships, geriatric mental health, knowledge translation and transcultural nursing.
Crandall, Jackie	Palliative care, wound care and geriatrics. Research interests: transfer os knowledge to practice; and development and implementation of innovative change initiatives with an outcome measurement.
Crawford, Sylvie	Surgical care. Manager/coordinator of general and thoracic surgery; ambulatory gastroenterology; respiratory medicine; and  enterostomal therapy. Research interests: health law;  leadership in health care.
Crinklaw-Wianko, Donna	Geriatric assessment unit. Acuate care of the elderly/medicine units. Research interests: ageing, geriatric syndromes and care issues.
DeLuca, Sandra	Nursing Educator. High risk, public health care. Pediatrics. Research interests: Development and interaction of nursing education.
Devries-Rizzo, Margo	Pediatric neurology. Specialties: epilepsy, hypoxic ischemic encephlopathy, headaches, intrathecal baclofen, complex neurological disorders, and program development.
Dhinsa, Shaya	Health care administration. Women's health care clinics, sexual health and family planning health care concerns, community care access, and health care issues in the geriatric population.
Doherty, Jennifer	Psychiatry in geriatrics, children, and adolescence. Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Geriatric Psychiatry Program at RMHC London.
Doyle-Pettypiece, Patricia	Neurosurgery. Research interests: neurosciences; spinal injuries; seizures; increased intracranial pressure; brain tumors; and stroke.
Duff, Elsie	Nursing educator. Teen clinic nurse. Community and public health care. Research interests: Nursing education and teaching development.
Finigan, Anne	Mental Health Care. Forensic clinical nurse specialist. Sexual assault treatment. Research interests: reaction to chronic disease; anxiety disorders ; PTSD; mental health consultaion and primary-care; domestic violence; and female violence.
Fisher, Grant	Heart and multi-organ transplants. Research interests: multi-organ transpants and health care education.
Forbes, Dorothy	Dementia Care. Research interests: enhancing the quality of life for community-dwelling persons with dementia and their care partners in rural and urban Canada; and Health care providers-dementia patients relationship.
Fulford, Adrienne	Primary heath care. Research interests: prenatal, maternal and child health care; family health care; and adolescent mothers health and lyfestyles.
George, Katharine	Nursing in rural First Nations Territories.
Goldenberg, Dolly	Nursing education/curriculum consultantation and development.
Halfpenny, Alana	Primary Health care. Family health services. Public helath preventive services. Diabetes nurse educator.
Harvey, Betty	Primary health care. Interdisciplinary models of primary health care delivery. Design and implementation of interdisciplinary models of diabetes care. Service for hard to reach, marginalized population including SMI, urban core, immigrant and refugee. Program evluation. Research interests: epidemiology of high risk populations; epidemiology of diabetes; primary health care; and best practices.
Harwood, Lori	Chronic illness and dialysis. Research interests: projects geared towards dialysis, chronic kidney disease and the impact for the patient and family as well as conditions of work life for Canadian nephrology nurses.
Hunt, Janet	Complex continuing care. Urgent care and cardiac care.
Hurlock-Chorostecki, Tina	Transitional care unit; cardiac surgery recovery unit; and intensive care unit. Clincal content leader project management. Research interests: acute care; respiratory distress; health care renewal; workforce study; pain manegement.
Izumi, Janet	Assessment and counselling interventions with individuals, couples and families.
Jacob, Sheena	Provision primary health care services surrounding health promotion, injury and illness prevention, diagnosis and treatment and family and community development. Research interests: health information systems and health poilcy and development.
Momodou, Jeng	Manager Social Research and Planning. Research interest: Social statistics, health, and demographics issues;and adolescent health, sexual health and indirect measurement techniques of mortality.
Johnson, Gail	Geriatric. Community health. Research intereests: dementia; aging and geriatric syndromes in hospitals; home care; and Alzheimer's.
Kalia, Kamini	Psychosis Program. Child and adolescent acute mental health care. Research interests: newcomers' mental health; health promotion; accessive health care; and nursing education.
King, Gillian	Researcher scientist. Research interests: Handicapped and living with disabilities; caregiving; parental psychosocial well-being; delivery of social, health and deucation services; development of professional expertise in the delivery of health care; optimal environments and experience of meaningful participation; physical and occupational therapy.
Kohr, Rosemary	Advanced Practice Nurse (formerly NP/CNS) in the Medicine program focus on chronic wound care consultation. Research interests: interdisciplinary enhance patient care, maintain quality and ensure healthcare cost containment. She has recently established Kohr Consulting, www.kohrconsulting.ca with a goal to improving clinical practice around wound care, offering workshops for healthcare professionals and students.
Koopman, Wilma	Neuromuscular Diseases. Multiple sclerosis. Research interests: neurosciences; and psychosocial rehabilitation
Kras-Dupuis (Bluvol), Anna	Rehabilitation program. Stroke/neurological rehabilitation. Research interests: rehabilitation of patients with sever stroke; quality of life of stroke survivors and caregivers; secondary stroke prevention in rehabilitation; and chronic disease self-management.
Laforêt-Fliesser, Yvette	Family Health Services. Public helath care. Research interests: Single paretn families; casual model of family health promotion; Nursing education; geriatic helath care; community health care.
Lawrence-Murphy, Julie Ann	Renal program. Burn and trauma centre. Research interests: Renal nursing; hemodialysis; and foot problems in hemodialysis patients.
Leddy, Sue	Rural nursing as a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner in a Family Health Team. Administration, primary care, perioperative care, emergency, coronary care and community development.
Ledoux, Kathleen	Nursing practice; allied health; and surgical care leadership and administration. Research interests: cardiac; general surgery; and health care leadership and administration.
Lee, Debbie	Southwest Local Health Integration Network. Consultant to health care and social service organizations. Expirenece in health care policy and health care systems.
Loft, Maureen	Orthopedics. Intensive care. Research interests: nurse mentors; advance practice un nursing; pain management-acute/surgical; patient transition from hospital to home; and patient and family education.
Mackenzie, Rob	Geriatrics and musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Research interests: outcomes measurement in geriatric rehabilitation, and patient safety.
Mawdsley, Catherine	Critical care. Research interests: mentoring of nursing; interdisciplinary team dynamics; intensive critical care; and patient outcome care.
Mayer, Cheryl	Advanced Practice/Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Neurological Sciences Urgent TIA Clinic and Secondary Prevention of Stroke program. Research interests: promote adherence to prescribed regimens, including lifestyle management, in patients at risk for stroke.
McAuslan, Debra	Profession practice specialist in nursing research. Surgicalcare administration. RNAO toolkit for implementation of clinical best practice guidelines. Research interests: enhancing the workplace; surgical care; health care transformation; and best practice guideline implementations.
McCallum, Charlotte	APN Dialysis unit. Clinical burse specialist intensive care unit. Clinical neurological sciences program. Publich health care. Research interests: implementation of nursing intervention; hemodialysis.
Mitchell, Joan	Clinical practice focuses on the prevention and management of chronic health conditions along with education and research participation.  Research projects: Integrating Physician Services in the Home; and Interprofessional education: A nurse practitioner impacts family medicine residents' smoking cessation counselling experiences.
Moritzen, Maureen	Primary health care nurse practitioner. Public health.
Mowat, Janyth	Geriatric services. Research interests: nursing education; alzheimer disease; RNAO best practice guidelines on delirium, depression and dementia; interdisciplinary multi-site parternship; and home-care.
O'Farrell, Breeda	Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with Neurology. Research interest: frontline nursing issues with the neuroscience population.
O'Hara, Susan	Family Health Services. Public helath care. Geriatric rehabilitation. Research interests: Nursing education; urinary incontinence in the eldery; acute care and pain mamnagement in the eldery; and dementia and Alzhemier's diseases
O'Regan, Tony	Integrated geriatric medicine, geriatric psychiatry, and memory assessment clinic. Research intersts: antidementia therapy; mental health nursing; mental health in homeless; community mental health nurses; and electroconvulsive therapy.
Parsons, Catherine	Nursing professional practice in a consulting role; offers educational programs using concepts from Positive Psychology. Research interests: creating quality work places; developing and testing strategies that promote resiliency within nursing including strategies within nursing practice, education, and leadership.
Patrick, Linda	Researcher. Community health; intensive care; dialysis and diabetes research; othopaedics. Research interests: women's health internatal periods; prevention or delay of type 2 diabetes.
Pearlman, Lisa	Paediatric chronic illness: nephrology, hemodialysis, solid organ transplant, acquired brain injury, palliative care. Research interests: assessment of agitation in paediatric patients with traumatic brain injury.
Perkin, Karen	Nursing in Intensive Care and General Medicine, along with being a Nurse Manager, Nursing Practice Coordinator and Director - Nursing Practice.
Phoenix, Elizabeth	Child and adolescent mental health population. Leadership, research and consultation mental health care. Research intersts: program evaluation and treatment outcome for individuals with anxiety; and mood disorders.
Plank, Lisa	Mental health as a nurse practitioner. Involved in a shared care telepsychiatry model, providing increased access to services in a rural community.
Renouf, Sara	Primary health care. Family practice. Research interests: advance home care; First Nations health care and family/community health care.
Richardson, Jan	Manager of Homelessness, hostels and special populations. Jan Richardson and Associates consulting Co. Research interests: holessness; shelter services; abused women; and vicarious trauma.
Ridley, Jane	APN nephrology. Research interests: Canadiand nephrology nursing scene; treatment os hemodialysis patients; patient-nursing outcomes; and foot problems in hemodialysis' patients.
Sealy, Patricia	Public helath research. Research interests: psychosocial risk factors of postpartum weight gain; mental health; intervention in clinical practice.Family and mother's mental health; and nursing education.
Veldhorst, Joanne	Primary care, prenatal care, women's health, homelessness, poverty, new immigrant and refugee issues.
Vingilis, Evelyn	Psychologist who conducts both population-based and health services research. Research interests: road safety, at-risk youth and mental health services.
Vlasic, Wendy	Clinical speciality in acute care cardiology settings and includes positions as an Advanced Practice Nurse in Interventional Cardiology. Research interests: reducing bedrest following Arterial puncture for Coronary interventional procedures; and impact on puncture site complications, and patient comfort and the need for subsequent nursing interventions.
Whittle, Heather	Geriatrics service. Research interests: nursing leadership issues, wound care and the use of restraints in the elderly.
Whyte, Heather	Program coordinator, patient services. Community Children's care. Surgical services. Research interests: job-related empowerement and job satisfaction; quality care; and heatlthy workplace in emergency care.
Wilson, Barbara	General medicine, rheumatology, nephrology and the end stages of renal disease. Research interests: haemodialysis and nephrology.
Wuest, Judith	Nursing educator. Research interests: Abused women; workplace bullying; PTSD in survivors of intimate partner violence; Intimate partner violence; Health problems in urban and rural areas; children of IPV; Family caregiving; and Nursing education.
Young-Ritchie, Carol	Emergency care. Research interests: leadership behaviour and healthy workplaces.

Research Support Staff

• Stanley, Meagan - Research/Instructional Services Librarian
• Hammerton, Joanne - Research Coordinator for Marilyn Ford-Gilboe

Professors Emeriti

• Forbes, Dorothy

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