| Lawrence S. Bloomberg Professorships & International Post Doctoral Fellowships |
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Limited Term Professorships
Current Appointments: |
| Ann Tourangeau, Associate Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing |
| Lawrence S. Bloomberg Limited-Term Professor (Patient Safety) |
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Dr. Tourangeau, research is within the domain of Science of Nursing Health Systems. Ann works in the area of nursing outcomes research, particularly related to patient safety outcomes such as, hospital mortality and readmission to hospital. Utilization of her research findings are of particular interest to health care administrators, health care leaders, and health policy makers. She incorporates data from large administrative and clinical databases to answer questions related to the contribution that nursing care and nursing work environments make to these patient and organizational outcomes. . | |
| Rebecca Louise Rose, Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing |
| Lawrence S. Bloomberg Limited-Term Professor (Critical Care) |
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Dr. Rose brings great strength to the faculty in an area of key strategic importance to the Province – critical care. She is an outstanding nurse clinician whose research has been directed towards critical care, emergency and trauma nursing of adult and paediatric patients. As the Critical Care Professor, Dr. Rose is working closely with a number of university partners, including Mount Sinai Hospital, University Health Network and St. Michael’s Hospital on the development of research in critical care practice. | |
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Distinguished International Visiting Professor
Current Appointment: |
| Judith Oulton |
| Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor |
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Judith Oulton's efforts to advance the field of nursing and influence health policy have earned her international recognition. She brings a valuable global perspective to the Bloomberg Nursing community. Oulton recently retired as CEO of the Geneva-based International council of Nurses (ICN), a federation of national nurses associations representing millions of nurses in more than 130 countries. The ICN works to maintain a strong international community of nurses and to promote sound health policies around the world, collaborating with the United Nations and other non-governmental organizations.
Oulton's experiences at ICN - as well as her previous clinical, teaching and administrative positions in her native Canada - have given her valuabel insight into issues such as health care, the nursing workforce shortage, development of community health workers and professional development. | |
Lawrence S. Bloomberg International Post Doctoral Fellow
Current Appointment: |
| Maria Schubert, University of Basel |
| Tom Kierans International Post-Doctoral Fellow |
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Dr. Schubert is a nursing outcomes researcher with an extensive practice background and experience as a critical care clinical nurse specialist. Her postdoctoral fellowship involves continued development of research on quality of care issues (such as the rationing of care and other clinical judgment exercised by nurses in direct care roles in acute care hospitals) and patient outcomes sensitive to nursing (including delirium in critical care settings).
She is also part of a Swiss team of investigators collaboratively exploring workforce issues in a large-scale European Commission-funded study, RN4CAST. | |
| Teresa Moreno-Casbas, Ministry of Health, Spain |
| Tom Kierans International Post-Doctoral Fellow |
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Dr. Teresa Moreno has played a leading role in the development of training programs for nurse investigators and the funding of nursing research in Spain. She is a well-known nurse leader throughout Europe. She works closely with policy leaders and has been a driving force behind a wide range of pan-European nursing research initiatives. Prominent among these is RN4CAST, a major project which is investigating practice conditions and workforce projections in hospital nursing across the continent. In her fellowship, Dr. Moreno is focussing on research interests that include a variety of topics related to nurses' research utilization and knowledge translation efforts, including system organizational factors that promote and hinder the advancement of nursing scholarship. | |
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Professorships & International Post Doctoral Fellowships
Past Appointments: |
| Diane Doran, Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing |
| Lawrence S. Bloomberg Limited-Term Professor (Patient Safety) (2008) |
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Dr. Doran, professor and Interim-Dean (2004-2005), currently represents the Faculty on the TAHSN Patient Safety Committee. The foci of her research are the evaluation of methods for improving the quality of health care, the design and measurement of nursing sensitive patient outcomes, health care teams and innovations in patient safety. She is a past recipient of the Premier’s Research Excellence Award, and is an internationally recognized expert on nursing sensitive outcomes, patient safety and the application of technology to improve systems of care and the functioning of health care teams. | |
| Alex Molassiotis, University of Manchester |
| Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor (2008) |
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Dr. Molassiotis is currently Professor of Cancer and Supportive Care, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester. He is a leading figure in cancer nursing research and end of life care in the UK and Europe. As the Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor, his focus will be to develop capacity building initiatives in collaboration with our clinical partners for the development of research in cancer and palliative care nursing that will support the development of excellent in cancer nursing practice and lead to high quality patient care. | |
| Marit Leegaard, University of Oslo |
| Tom Kierans International Post-Doctoral Fellow (2008) |
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Dr. Leegaard, an expert clinician in pain and anaesthesia, is joined the Faculty upon completion of her doctorate at the University of Oslo. Her work at Bloomberg Nursing was in the area of pain, focusing on cardiac pain. | |
| Wendy Chaboyer, Griffith University |
| Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor (2009) |
| Professor Chaboyer is an experienced, internationally recognized researcher with a program of research in acute and critical care nursing, patient safety and adverse events. Specific areas of focus have been on improving continuity of care for critical care patients and on communication strategies such as bedside handover in nursing, the use of whiteboards to assist in multidisciplinary communication and discharge planning, operating team briefings and pre-operative checklists. | |
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