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Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

Amy Wright

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health of Families
  • Indigenous health
  • Parenting and cultural safety.
  • Women and children's health

Office: 416 946-8183
Website
Email: amyl.wright@utoronto.ca

Carles Muntaner

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Catalonia, Catalan politics and culture
  • Employment conditions, precarious employment
  • Global Health in Europe, Latin America, and the United States
  • Philosophy of epidemiology and public health
  • Politics; welfare state, and social protection
  • Social class, racism, ethnicity, and gender
  • Social inequalities in health

Office: (416) 978-5502
Mobile: +14162099505
Languages: English,French,Spanish; Castilian,Catalan; Valencian,Occitan (post 1500)
Website
Email: carles.muntaner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Charlene Chu

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Co-designing and evaluating technologies that can be translated into practice
  • Dementia care
  • Innovations to support healthy aging or aging in place
  • Long-term care
  • Nursing for older adults
  • Nursing homes
  • Person-centred interventions
  • Technology for older adults
  • The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to support older adults

Office: (416) 946-0217
Languages: English,Chinese (Cantonese),Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: charlene.chu@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Cindy-Lee Dennis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anxiety (maternal, paternal, pregnancy, postpartum)
  • Breastfeeding
  • ehealth interventions
  • Fathers
  • Perinatal mental health
  • Postpartum depression (maternal, paternal)
  • Preconception care
  • Randomized controlled trials
  • Systematic reviews

Office: (416) 946-8608
Home: 416-485-0808
Mobile: (416) 485-0808
Languages: English
Website
Email: cindylee.dennis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Denise Gastaldo

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health promotion for immigrants
  • Immigrant women's health
  • International nursing research

Office: (416) 978-4953
Languages: Spanish; Castilian,French,Italian,Portuguese
Website
Email: denise.gastaldo@utoronto.ca
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Edith Hillan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Caesarean section
  • Childbirth
  • Global health of women and newborns
  • Maternity care
  • Midwifery
  • Technologies to improve healthcare in rural and remote settings
  • Women's health after childbirth

Office: (416) 946-5646
Home: 416-929-9307
Mobile: (416) 929-9307
Languages: English
Website
Email: edith.hillan@utoronto.ca
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Elizabeth Peter

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioethics
  • Ethics
  • Moral identity, moral agency, and moral distress,
  • Nursing ethics
  • Qualitative research
  • Theory

Office: (416) 946-3437
Website
Email: elizabeth.peter@utoronto.ca

Jennifer Stinson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Using information and communication technologies to improve the assessment and management of pain and other syptoms in children with chronic and life threatening health conditions

Office: 416-813-7654 Ext. 304514
Languages: English
Website
Email: jennifer.stinson@utoronto.ca

Kelly Metcalfe

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Breast cancer and prevention
  • Genetic counselling
  • Nursing
  • Prophylactic mastectomy

Office: (416) 978-2851
Home: 416-503-4932
Languages: English
Website
Email: kelly.metcalfe@utoronto.ca
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Kimberley Widger

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Care of children with life-threatening and life-shortening conditions
  • Pediatric palliative care
  • Quality of care

Office: (416) 978-7925
Website
Email: kim.widger@utoronto.ca

Kristin Cleverley

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • patient- and family-centered care.
  • postsecondary student mental health research
  • transitions from child to adult mental health services
  • youth mental health practice, research and education

Office: (416) 946-8676
Languages: English
Website
Email: k.cleverley@utoronto.ca

Linda McGillis Hall

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health human resources
  • Internationally educated nurses
  • Migration
  • Nurse licensing
  • Nurse staffing, work environment
  • Nursing administration, costing
  • Nursing report cards
  • Work environments

Office: 416-978-2869
Languages: English
Website
Email: l.mcgillishall@utoronto.ca
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Lindsay Jibb

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Child with cancer- and caregiver-oriented research priority identification and engagement in research
  • Home-based childhood cancer care
  • Interventions to empower and support the health of family caregivers of children with cancer
  • User-centered development and evaluation of digital health technologies for symptom management

Office: 416 978-0715
Languages: English
Website
Email: lindsay.jibb@utoronto.ca

Lisa Cranley

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • care provision in long-term care homes
  • decision-making in long-term care homes
  • geriatrics and gerontology
  • Knowledge translation
  • supporting health staff

Office: (416) 978-1965
Languages: English
Website
Email: lisa.cranley@utoronto.ca

Mandana Vahabi

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer screening
  • Cervical cancer screening
  • Food security
  • Health equity
  • Marginalized populations
  • Mental health
  • Primary Health Care

Office: N/A
Email: mandana.vahabi@utoronto.ca

Mariana Bueno

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Implementation Science
  • Knowledge translation
  • neonatal nursing
  • neonatal pain

Office: 416 978 7191
Languages: English,Portuguese,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: mariana.bueno@utoronto.ca

Martine Puts

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comprehensive geriatric assessment
  • eHealth and mHealth
  • Frailty
  • Geriatric nursing
  • Geriatrics
  • Gerontology
  • Older adults with cancer

Office: (416) 978-6059
Languages: English,French,Dutch; Flemish,German
Website
Email: martine.puts@utoronto.ca

Monica Parry

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Diabetes and cardiovascular health
  • Ehealth and mhealth interventions/AI
  • Patient-oriented research (POR)
  • Self-management
  • Sex and gender

Office: (416) 946-3561
Languages: English
Website
Email: monica.parry@utoronto.ca

Quinn Grundy

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Conflict of interest
  • critical qualitative methods
  • governance/accountability/transparency
  • industry sponsorship of research
  • medical device industry
  • nurse-industry interactions
  • pharmaceutical industry
  • Pharmaceutical Policy
  • pharmaceutical promotional
  • research integrity
  • sustainable healthcare

Office: 416 978-2852
Languages: English
Website
Email: quinn.grundy@utoronto.ca

Robyn Stremler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • eHealth and mHealth
  • Healthy sleep in infants, teenagers and parents
  • Infant and pediatric sleep
  • Sleep during pregnancy and the postpartum
  • Sleep quality and actigraphy
  • Women's health, randomized controlled trials

Office: (416) 978-6925
Languages: English
Website
Email: robyn.stremler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Samantha Mayo

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer survivorship
  • Cancer-related cognitive impairment
  • Cancer-related symptoms
  • Hematological cancers
  • Supportive care
  • Symptom science

Office: N/A
Website
Email: samantha.mayo@utoronto.ca

Sioban Nelson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • global health workforce
  • history of nursing and material culture
  • impact of the Rockefeller Foundation on global nursing in the mid-20th century
  • Nursing
  • Professional regulation, competency and mobility
  • transnational history of nursing

Office: 416-978-3742
Languages: English
Website
Email: sioban.nelson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Tieghan Killackey

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiovascular health
  • mixed methods, chronic illness
  • Nursing
  • patient autonomy
  • Self-management
  • Technology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: tieghan.killackey@utoronto.ca