Faculty & Researchers

The School of Nursing attracts creative faculty who are committed to transforming nursing and healthcare to more patient-centered approaches. York's collaborative research focus enables York's researchers to push beyond traditional research methods and gain insights into the issues affecting our world. Below, you will find profiles of York Nursing faculty and researchers who are providing real-world solutions to the complex challenges of health and healing.

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• Patricia Bradley (PhD, University of San Diego)
  Nursing Education, Internationally Educated Nurses
  

• Jacqueline A. Choiniere (Ph.D., York University, Toronto)
  Gender; Health Policy; Aging; Social Determinants of Health; Nursing; Qualitative Methodology

• Isolde Daiski (Ed.D., O.I.S.E.- University of Toronto)

              Homelessness and Marginalization and Their Impacts on Health; Qualitative Inquiry; Human Becoming Theory ; Critical Theories

• Fay Mahdieh Dastjerdi (RN, B.Sc.N., M.Sc.N., Ph.D. University of Alberta)
  Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods; Immigrant and Refugee Populations; Marginalized and Underserved Populations; Accessing Health Care Services; Quality of life; Equality and Gender Issues
  

• Adeline Falk-Rafael (Ph.D., University of Colorado)
  Power and Empowerment; Public Health Nursing; Critical Caring
  
  
• Mary Fox (Ph.D., University of Toronto)
  Rest and activity, bed rest, functional ability, mobility, symptom assessment and management, older adults, chronic disease, survey development

• Janet Jeffrey (Ph.D., Case Western)
  Quality of life for adults with chronic illness and their families; chronic pain; e-health in transition from hospital to home; research utilization; program evaluation and accreditation

• Elsabeth Jensen (Ph.D., Wayne State University)
  Mental health, interpersonal violence, knowledge integration, diversity, homelessness, nursing theory testing, program evaluation, transitional discharge models, nursing history
  
  
• Nancy Johnston (Ph.D., MacMaster University)
  Mental health; resilience; meaning in suffering; hermeneutic and phenomenological research; global health.
  

• Christine Jonas-Simpson (PhD, Loyola University Chicago)
  Transforming with Grief and Loss; Arts-informed Research; Complexity Pedagogy
  
  
• Nazilla Khanlou (PhD, McMaster University)
  Adolescence/ Youth; Immigration Studies Mental Health/ Mental Health Promotion; Participatory Action Research; Resilience; Women's Mental Health and Wellbeing
  

• Christine Kurtz Landy (PhD, McMaster University)

               Women's Health during the Reproductive Years; Knowledge Translation; Evidence Informed Health Care; Mixed  Methods                        Research; Families at Risk for Health Inequities; Health Services and Policy Research Related to Maternity Care

• Tsorng-Yeh Lee (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)

               Breast Cancer Services Study; Genetics; Immigration Health Studies; Qualitative Research; Teenage Pregancy ; Maternity Nursing

• Lillie Lum (Ph.D., University of Toronto)
  Health Human Resources Management; Organizational Justice; Health Services Management and Administrative Justice; Mental Health; Nursing Distance Education and Learning Communities
  

• Judith MacDonnell (PhD, OISE at the University of Toronto)
  Access & equity, community health nursing, nursing ethics, career/workplace issues, sexual diversity, mental health promotion,
  women’s work/health and political activism, feminist analysis, critical pedagogy, motherhood studies, qualitative research, articipatory policy research and participatory action research

• Christine Maheu (Ph.D., University of British Columbia)
  Psycho-Oncology Research; Cancer Survivorship ;Cancer Genetics
  

• Claire Mallette (PhD, University of Toronto)
  

• Gail Mitchell (Ph.D, University of South Carolina)
  Arts-based Research; Qualitative Inquiry; Person-Centred Dementia Care; E-Learning; Diabetes and Self-Care; Human-Centred Care and Global Health
  

• Mitzi Mitchell (PhD, Walden University)

              Gerontology (Practice, Theory, and Research); Transition Theory; Relocation; Crisis Intervention; Ethics Public Health

• Malini Persaud (PhD, University of Toronto)

             Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias; Qualitative Research; Aging

• F. Beryl Pilkington (Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago)
  Client centred care; quality of life; hermeneutic and phenomenological research; human becoming theory-based research and practice; maternal-child & women’s health   
  

• Martha Rogers (Ed.D., O.I.S.E.- University of Toronto)
  Futures research; learning about global health; transformative learning in nursing; nursing and soulfulness.

• Joan Samuels-Dennis (PhD, University of Western Ontario )
  

• Minawatie D. Singh (Ph.D., O.I.S.E. – University of Toronto)
  Measurement; quantitative research methods; program evaluation (health and education); curriculum and accountability
  

• Rose G. Steele (Ph.D., University of British Columbia)
  Pediatric Palliative Care; Psychosocial Care; Quality of Life 'Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methods'
  

• Deborah Tregunno (Ph.D., University of Toronto)
  Health Services Organization and Management; Performance Measurement Quality Improvement; Organizational Culture ; Patient Safety; Mixed Methods 
  

• Cheryl van Daalen-Smith(Ph.D., O.I.S.E. – University of Toronto)
  Women's Health; Women's Mental Health; Community Health/Health Promotion www.yorku.ca/cvandaal