Faculty | Faculty of Nursing | Memorial University of Newfoundland

Professor Emerita

Lan Gien

Gien, Lan., B.Sc.N. Loretta Heights College, M.Ed.N. Columbia, PhD London, FCAN (Fellow, Canadian Academy of Nursing)

lgien@mun.ca

Expertise: Aging, Women’s health; primary health care; population health; intercultural health; program evaluation

Sandra LeFort

LeFort Sandra., BA Trent, MN Memorial, PhD McGill

slefort@mun.ca

Expertise: Self-care/self-management of chronic pain; pain assessment and management; knowledge exchange and translation; advanced practice nursing roles; ethical practice issues; telehomecare; evaluation

Dr. Shirley Solberg

Solberg, Shirley., BN, MN Memorial, PhD University of Alberta

ssolberg@mun.ca

Expertise: Women’s health; occupational health; chronic pain conditions associated with work; social inequality and social determinants of health; qualitative research methodologies; and ethics of publication

Chris Way

Way, Christine., BN, BA Memorial, M.Sc(A) McGill, PhD Virginia;

Winner of President's Award for Distinguished Teaching 1999

cway@mun.ca

Expertise: End-stage renal disease and life on dialysis; impact of healthcare reforms on provider groups; evaluation of programs for women at risk during pregnancy; chronic illnesses

Dr. Sandra Small

Small, Sandra., BN Memorial, M.Sc.N. Toronto, PhD Alberta

ssmall@mun.ca

Expertise: Respiratory health, including aspects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; asthma and youth smoking; parenting children about risk factors.

Professors

Dr. Alice Gaudine

Gaudine, Alice., B.Sc. (Hons) Mount Allison, M.Sc. (A) McGill, PhD Concordia (On Leave)
agaudine@mun.ca

Expertise: Nursing leadership; nurse's ethical conflicts; employee absenteeism; nurses' work life

Kearney, Anne., BN Memorial, M.H.Sc. Toronto, PhD Memorial
akearney@mun.ca
Tel:(709) 864-2270
Room: H2955

Expertise: Quality of nurses' worklife; mindfulness-based interventions for health care workers; breast screening effectiveness particularly related to mammography screening.

Dr. Sandy Mac

MacDonald, Sandra., BN, MN Memorial, PhD Walden
Winner of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching 2011
smacdon@mun.ca
Tel: 709-864-4626
Room: H3467

Expertise: Community health needs and resources assessment; program evaluation; critical care nursing; nursing management, leadership qualities and styles

Moralejo, Donna., BA, B.Sc., M.Sc.(A) McGill, PhD Calgary (On Leave)

moralejo@mun.ca

Expertise: Infection control, surveillance; population/public health; evidence-based practice

Dr. Karen Parsons

Parsons, Karen., BN, MN Memorial, PhD Rush

Winner of the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching 2014

karenp@mun.ca

Tel: 709-864-2305
Room: H2959

Expertise: Healthy aging; memory impairment in the older adult; teaching approaches to learning and critical thinking especially in the care of the older adult; Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology

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Associate Professors

Lukewich, Julia., BNSc., MN, PhD Queen's

jlukewich@mun.ca

Tel: 709-864-8211
Room: H2953

Expertise: Primary care; nursing roles; organizational attributes; chronic disease management; type 2 diabetes; health outcomes; quantitative research methods; systematic reviews; secondary data analysis

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Joy Maddigan

Maddigan, Joy., BN, MN Memorial, PhD Calgary

jmaddigan@mun.ca

Tel: 709-864-3606
Room: ED-5004E

Expertise: Psychiatric mental health nursing; early psychosis intervention; families and health; advancing nursing practice; mixed methods research

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Cindy Murray

Murray, Cindy., BN, MN Memorial, PhD Alberta (On Leave)

cindym@mun.ca

Tel: 709-864-3608
Room: H3439

Expertise: Community and population health; health promotion and chronic disease prevention; determinants of health; health policy; health inequities; Indigenous peoples and health; healthy child development; women's health; body weight and health; fetal programming of chronic diseases; quantitative, qualitative, and interdisciplinary research

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April Pike19

Pike, April., BN, MN, PhD Memorial

Winner, President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2020
Winner of the President's Award for Exceptional Community Service, 2016

aprilpike@mun.ca

Tel:709-864-7453

Room: H2951

Expertise: Genetics; sociocultural theories of risk; community health; cardiovascular disease; organ procurement; qualitative research methods; grounded theory; phenomenology

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Assistant Professors

Jill Bruneau

Bruneau, Jill., BN, MHSc,Toronto, PhD, Memorial

jill.bruneau@mun.ca

Tel: 864-3604

Room:ED5004C

Expertise and areas of interest: Advanced Practice Nursing/Nurse Practitioner; Cardiovascular Health, Health Promotion; Risk Factor Management, special interest in hypertension management; motivational interviewing; and mixed methods research.

Renee C 2015

Crossman, Renee., BN, MN, Memorial, PhD, Alberta

crossman@mun.ca

Tel: 709-864-4459
Room: H3473

Areas of interest: Diabetes management; focused ethnography; critical discourse analysis; practice-based research; sociomateriality; chronic disease prevention and management

Robin Burry

Devey-Burry, Robin., BScN, Ottawa, MN, South Queensland, PhD, Ottawa

rdburry@mun.ca
Tel: 709-864-8112
Room: H3475

Expertise and areas of interest: Mentorship, transition to practice, new nursing graduates, organizational and professional socialization, nursing recruitment, retention and recognition, qualitative and quantitative research methods, interpretive description, secondary data analysis, systematic reviews, quality improvement and program evaluation.

Karen Dobbin Williams

Dobbin-Williams, Karen., BN, MN Memorial, PhD Calgary

kdobbinw@mun.ca
Room: H3461
Tel: 709-864-4488

Expertise: Food allergies and anaphylaxis; chronic illnesses; Diabetes; cardiovascular disease; surgical site infection risk factors; primary health care; Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics; systematic reviews; maternal theory; teenagers/adolescents

Jennifer Howard

Howard, Jennifer., BScN, PhD Western,

Jhoward13@mun.ca
Tel:864-2539

Expertise: Art-based research, teaching; learning and interventions;
neurodegenerative disorders (i.e. multiple sclerosis and dementia); gerontological health; community and family health; mixed-methods in nursing research; statistical analysis; research methodologies; phenomenology; qualitative research in nursing

Hurley (Samms), Erica., BN Memorial, MN Athabasca, PhD (c) CCNE, RN

Ehurley@grenfell.mun.ca
Tel: (709) 784-6503

Expertise: Indigenous health; Indigenous women; Indigenous research- Indigenous research methodlogy; community-based research; heart health; simulation; nursing education

Kimberly Jarvis

Jarvis, Kimberly., BN, MN Memorial, PhD Alberta

kimberly.jarvis@mun.ca
Tel: 709-864-2746
Room: H2936

Expertise: Dr. Jarvis' research focuses on the intersection of culturally-entangled practices and gendered roles that have marginalizing consequences for women – particularly upon a woman’s sexual and reproductive health. She endeavors to understand, measure and evaluate these issues so to effect change in health-care practice and social policy, conducting her research in a Canadian and sub Saharan African context employing critical qualitative approaches.

Paula Kelly

Kelly, Paula., BN U Victoria ’98 MSN UBC ‘02, PhD Memorial

paulak@mun.ca
Tel: 709-864-4763
Room: H3472

Expertise: Nurses’ work, nursing knowledge, women’s health, qualitative research methods, institutional ethnography

Lewis- Power, Nicole., BN Memorial, MN Dalhousie, PhD (c) Memorial

nicolelewis@mun.ca
Tel: 709-864-2958
Room: H3457

Expertise: Preterm birth; children with health challenges; school/community/provincial supports for children with health challenges; pediatric nursing; breastfeeding; qualitative research methods

Monari, Esther., BScN, Ryerson (now Toronto Metropolitan), MScN, D’Youville, PhD(c), Western

enmonari@mun.ca
Tel: 709-864-8787
Room: H3472

Expertise and areas of interest: Mental health and addictions; psychiatric homelessness; gerontology; substance use issues within Black communities; anti-Black racism, oppression; and access to mental health and addiction services; MedSurg; Qualitative research methodologies; secondary data analysis.

Nicole Snow

Snow, Nicole., BN, MN, Memorial, PhD Alberta, RN

nicole.snow@mun.ca

Tel: 709-864-3607
Room: ED-5004D

Expertise: Exploring dimensions of relationships and engagement (primarily in mental health contexts); ethical considerations inherent in professional care; the concept of professionalism and its praxis; interprofessional education and practice.

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Kathleen Stevens

Stevens, Kathleen., BN, MN, PhD Memorial

kathleen.stevens@mun.ca

Tel: 864-7100

Room:H2932

Expertise: Foot health; populations at risk for foot health problems such as individuals with diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, arthritis, and the elderly; self-management; and mixed methods research

Yacoubian, Hrag David., BN, MScN British Columbia (UBC), PhD(c) UBC

hyacoubian@mun.ca

Tel: 864-7114

Room:H3465

Expertise: Hrag studies nursing and healthcare history with an emphasis on North American humanitarian organizations and nurses involved in humanitarian efforts transnationally, in the Near East, in the first half of the 20th century. Hrag explores ways nurses practiced humanitarianism, highlighting the complexity of their work defined by modernity, political engagement and human rights.

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Younas, Ahtisham., BScN, MN, PhD, Memorial

ay6133@mun.ca

Tel: 709-864-7453

Room: H2930

Expertise: Marginalized populations; compassion and caregiving; implementation science; ethics and nursing education; self-awareness; mixed methods; research methods

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