Bloomberg Professorships
Term Professorships
Ann Tourangeau
Associate Professor
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Limited-Term Professor (Patient Safety)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
Limited-Term Professor (Critical Care)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.
Distinguished International Visiting Professors
Rev. Tom Keighley Frances
Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting ProfessorRev. Tom Keighley is a well-known British nurse with a long history of international, administration and policy work. He has worked in National Health Service (NHS) institutions from 1970 to 1982 and 1986 to 1993 variously as a practising nurse, teacher, researcher and manager, including director of nursing appointments at district and regional levels.
As a full-time officer at the Royal College of Nurses, working in the fields of research, policy formulation and political lobbying from 1982 to 1986, Keighley worked in the international arena, firstly in Europe, and from 1990 his work extended to North, Central and Latin America, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, Malawi and Singapore. From 1993 to 2001, he was the founding head of department and then assistant dean at the University of Leeds.
Over the course of his career, Keighley has been a trade union steward and convener, director of nursing at the most senior level in the NHS, an academic leader, as well as the long serving editor of Nursing Management. Some of his accomplishments include the establishment of the ethics function of the Royal College of Nurses, leadership in the implementation of a wide range of quality initiatives in service delivery, and being the first nurse invited to undertake the European Union Leadership Program.
Keighley is an experienced lobbyist at regional, national and international levels. He represented the UK on the European Union Advisory Committee on Nursing Training for over a decade and continues to facilitate the European Accession Project for the former Eastern Bloc member countries. He is also an Anglican priest (in secular employment) and is currently undertaking doctoral work at Kings College London on worker priests in the Anglican Church.
In 2001, Keighley was awarded the Gran Cruz de ASCOFAME in Colombia in recognition of his health care development work in Central and South America. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2004 in recognition of his contribution to international development and the development of leadership in the profession. He was also presented a lifetime membership to the American Organization of Nurse Executives in 2010 in recognition of his contribution to the global development of nursing.
As the Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor, Keighley will be working with the Faculty to advance our expertise in policy and leadership. There will be a number of key meetings and round tables on major issues of importance to Canadian nursing facilitated by Keighley over the course of the year. Keighley will advise on the development of the leadership and policy components of our programs, most specifically in the MN program. He will also conduct a master class on high-level negotiation in collaboration with CPD in 2013.
Keighley’s first visit took place mid-April when he generated a great deal of interest within the nursing community on the topic of leadership. Keighley will return to the Faculty in the fall and over the next 12 months will be visiting for periods of one to two weeks. He will be available to meet with faculty, students and our practice and professional partners during those visits. Keighley will also be presenting a public lecture at a date to be determined.
Tom Kierans International Postdoctoral Fellow
Hans-Peter de Ruiter
Minnesota State University
Tom Kierans International Postdoctoral Fellow at Bloomberg NursingHans-Peter de Ruiter was born in the Netherlands but spent most of his youth living in Bangkok and Tokyo. He graduated from the Eindhovens Protestants Lyceum in 1983, after which he pursued a nursing degree at the Free University School of Nursing in Amsterdam. He subsequently pursued a degree in mental health nursing at St Willibrordus Psychiatric Centre in Heiloo. It was in this Erving Goffman-like institution that he gained an interest in interpersonal relationships.
In 1989 de Ruiter moved to California and took a position at the Stanford University Hospital where he worked both in the areas of mental health and oncology. In the early ‘90s, he spent a year in Thailand working as a mental health program coordinator at Phanat Nikhom refugee camp. Following his return to the US, de Ruiter worked at the Mayo Clinic for more than 15 years as a staff nurse then nurse manager. During this time he completed his Masters in Nursing at Winona State University. His work and studies also piqued his interest in the interface between nursing practice and technology, leading to a PhD in nursing at the University of Minnesota.
De Ruiter’s study focused on the clinical decision-making process regarding the use of ceiling lift technology with an “Institutional Ethnographic” approach. After completing his dissertation, de Ruiter accepted a faculty position at Minnesota State University where he teaches mental health nursing, research, and the social space of nursing. In his current research, he is focusing on what the impact of the Electronic Health Record has on everyday practice, and what ethical and moral issues have arisen from its implementation.
As the Tom Kierans International Postdoctoral Fellow at Bloomberg Nursing, de Ruiter will be supervised by associate professor Dr. Jan Angus. During his fellowship, he plans to not only strengthen his skills in qualitative research but to focus on developing his publications.