Lisa Cranley an associate professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, is the 2025 recipient of the Health Sciences Mid-Career Innovation Award, presented by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
The award acknowledges Cranley’s outstanding research contributions that have aimed to improve the quality of health care delivered to older adults in long-term care (LTC) settings.
The award was presented during the Gerontological Society of America’s annual scientific meeting held the week of November 12-15, 2025
“I am honoured to receive this award, which recognizes my contributions to LTC research, aimed at improving the lives of older adults. My research increasingly focuses on designing and testing new innovations to enhance care planning in LTC homes.”
Some of Cranley’s recent work includes a study published in the journal Innovation in Aging which explored the feasibility of resident and family-led huddles as a component of collaborative care planning in LTC settings. The study engaged long-term care teams, residents, and their families in an intervention that included leadership coaching, education sessions and resident and family-led care planning conversations called huddles.
The goal of introducing huddles as part of a collaborative care planning process Cranley says, is that it supports person- and relationship- centered care as well as decision-making that is tailored to a resident’s needs, values and preferences.
“Huddles supported a relational process that facilitated communication among the healthcare team, residents, and families, and they have been viewed as a promising practice for engaging residents and families in care planning in LTC,” says Cranley.
Cranley is also the recipient of the Council of Ontario University Programs in Nursing (COUPN) Scholarship into Practice 2025 Award, and is the co-chair of the Canadian Network of Nurse Researchers in Aging.