The School of Nursing attracts creative faculty who are committed to transforming nursing and health care 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)
Health Policy, Women's Work & Health, Health-Care Reform & Accountability, Political Economy
- Isolde Daiski (Ed.D., O.I.S.E.- University of Toronto)
Client centred care; ethnographic and participatory action research; human becoming theory; post structuralism; homelessness and marginalized populations
- Fay Mahdieh Dastjerdi (RN, B.Sc.N., M.Sc.N., Ph.D. University of Alberta)
Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods Immigrant, Refugee and Underserved Populations ; Health Literacy, Risk Communication, Equality and Gender Issues ; Transcultural, Cross-cultural, and Inercultural Nursing ; Self-Sufficiency ;
Research and Knowledge Utilization ; Acute Care ; Health Assessment
- Adeline Falk-Rafael (Ph.D., University of Colorado) ON SABBATICAL
Power and empowerment; public health nursing
- 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)
Loss and grieving, bereavement; transforming with loss (for persons with dementia and their families, persons who experience infant loss and for nurses); patient centred care; human science nursing theory guided practice and research; women’s health research; research on mothering; qualitative research; arts-informed research and knowledge translation (drama, music, documentary, performance autoenthography).
- Nazilla Khanlou (PhD, McMaster University)
Adolescence/ youth, immigration studies, mental health/ mental health promotion, participatory action research, resilience, social determinants of mental wellbeing, women's mental health and wellbeing.
- Kyle Killian (PhD, Syracuse University)
Resilience and trauma, diversity, mental health, work environments, emotional
intelligence
- 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)
Psychosocial oncology, oncology, breast and gynecological cancers, cancer genetics, genetics/genomic, health literacy, psychosocial research in Cancer Genetics
- Gail Mitchell (Ph.D, University of South Carolina)
Research-based drama; hermeneutic research and phenomenology; human becoming theory-based research and practice; ethics of healthcare practices; patient-centred care.
- 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.
- 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)
Oncology; supportive care; palliative care (pediatric and adult); families
- Deborah Tregunno (Ph.D., University of Toronto)
Health services organization and management; performance measurement; quality improvement; organizational culture; patient safety.
- Cheryl van Daalen-Smith(Ph.D., O.I.S.E. – University of Toronto)
Community Health/Public Health Nursing, Community Development, Women's Mental Health, Girls' Health, Social Justice and Health, Critical Social/Feminist Theory, Feminist Research Methods, Feminist Pedagogy
