Faculty

 

Professor Emerita

Gien, Lan, B.Sc.N. Loretta Heights College, M.Ed.N. Columbia, PhD London, FCAN (Fellow, Canadian Academy of Nursing)
Expertise: Aging, women’s health; primary health care; population health; intercultural health; program evaluation
lgien@mun.ca 
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Sandra LeFort
LeFort, Sandra
, BA Trent, MN Memorial, PhD McGill 
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
slefort@mun.ca
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Dr. Sandra Small
Small, Sandra, BN Memorial, M.Sc.N. Toronto, PhD Alberta
Expertise: Respiratory health, including aspects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; asthma and youth smoking; parenting children about risk factors
ssmall@mun.ca
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Dr. Shirley Solberg
Solberg, Shirley, BN, MN Memorial, PhD University of Alberta
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
ssolberg@mun.ca

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Chris Way
Way, Christine, BN, BA Memorial, M.Sc (A) McGill, PhD Virginia
(President's Award for Distinguished Teaching 1999)
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
cway@mun.ca
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Professors
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Alice Gaudine
Gaudine, Alice, B.Sc. (Hons) Mount Allison, M.Sc. (A) McGill, PhD Concordia (Consolidation Lead)
Expertise: Nursing leadership; nurses' ethical conflicts; employee absenteeism; nurses' work life
agaudine@mun.ca
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Parsons, Karen, BN, MN Memorial, PhD Rush (President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching 2014)
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
Room: ED-5004B
Tel: 709-864-3390
karenp@mun.ca


Associate Professors


 

Lukewich, Julia, BNSc., MN, PhD Queen's (President’s Award for Outstanding Research 2023)
Expertise: Primary care; nursing roles; organizational attributes; chronic disease management; type 2 diabetes; health outcomes; quantitative research methods; systematic reviews; secondary data analysis
Room: H2953
Tel: 709-864-8211
jlukewich@mun.ca


 
Maddigan, Joy, BN, MN Memorial, PhD Calgary
Expertise: Psychiatric mental health nursing; early psychosis intervention; families and health; advancing nursing practice; mixed methods research
Room: H2951
Tel: 709-864-3606
jmaddigan@mun.ca
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April Pike
Pike, April, BN, MN, PhD Memorial (President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2020), President's Award for Exceptional Community Service, 2016)
Expertise: Genetics; sociocultural theories of risk; community health; cardiovascular disease; organ procurement; qualitative research methods; grounded theory; phenomenology
Tel: 709-864-4549
Room: H2926
aprilpike@mun.ca


Assistant Professors 



Baldwin, Daisy, RN, MN Memorial, PhD (C)
Expertise: Coronary artery disease in women; non-traditional risk factors for coronary artery disease in women; gestational diabetes; chronic disease prevention; qualitative research in nursing; grounded theory; incivility in clinical practice during nursing education
Room: H2949
Tel: 709-864-2270
daisy.baldwin@mun.ca
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Bruneau, Jill, BN, MHSc Toronto, PhD Memorial
Expertise: Advanced practice nursing/nurse practitioner; cardiovascular health, health promotion; risk factor management, special interest in hypertension management; motivational interviewing; and mixed methods research
Room: ED-5004B
Tel: 709-864-3604
jill.bruneau@mun.ca
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Crossman, Renee, BN, MN MemorialPhD Alberta
Expertise: Diabetes management; focused ethnography; critical discourse analysis; practice-based research; sociomateriality; chronic disease prevention and management
Room: H3473
Tel: 709-864-4459
crossman@mun.ca


Jennifer Howard
Collins, Jennifer, BScN, PhD Western, CCNE, RN
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
Room: 2957
Tel: 709-864-2539
jcollins@mun.ca



Devey-Burry, Robin, BScN Ottawa, MN South Queensland, PhD Ottawa
Expertise: 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
Room: H3467
Tel: 709-864-8112
rdburry@mun.ca
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Dobbin-Williams, Karen, 
BN, MN Memorial, PhD Calgary
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
Room: H3461
Tel: 709-864-4488
kdobbinw@mun.ca
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Gien, Lan, B.Sc.N. Loretta Heights College, M.Ed.N. Columbia, PhD London, FCAN (Fellow, Canadian Academy of Nursing)
Expertise: Aging, women’s health; primary health care; population health; intercultural health; program evaluation
lgien@mun.ca
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LeFort, Sandra, BA Trent, MN Memorial, PhD McGill 
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
slefort@mun.ca
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Small, Sandra, BN Memorial, M.Sc.N. Toronto, PhD Alberta
Expertise: Respiratory health, including aspects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; asthma and youth smoking; parenting children about risk factors
ssmall@mun.ca
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Solberg, Shirley, BN, MN Memorial, PhD University of Alberta
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
ssolberg@mun.ca
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Way, Christine, BN, BA Memorial, M.Sc (A) McGill, PhD Virginia
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
cway@mun.ca


Associate Professors
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Dorman, Jennifer, BA (Hons), BN, PhD Calgary, CHPCN (C)
Expertise: Palliative and end-of-life care, hospice nursing, medical assistance in dying (MAiD), marginalized populations, qualitative research methods, interpretive description
Room: H2953
Tel: 709-864-8211
jdorman@mun.ca
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Hamed, Abubaker,
BN, MScN UMST; PhD Memorial
Room: H2932 
Tel: 709-864-3023
amh040@mun.ca  
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Hurley (Samms), Erica, BN Memorial, MN Athabasca, PhD Alberta, CCNE, RN
Expertise: Indigenous health; Indigenous women; Indigenous research-Indigenous research methodology; community-based research; heart health; simulation; nursing education
Tel: (709) 784-6503
s96ejs@mun.ca
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Isler, Chantille, BN, MN, PhD Memorial, RN
Room: H3477
Tel: 709-864-4552
v43cihb@mun.ca
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Kimberly Jarvis
Jarvis, Kimberly, BN, MN Memorial, PhD Alberta
Expertise: Focuses on culturally-entangled practices and gendered roles that impact sexual and reproductive health, aiming to influence healthcare practices and social policy. Research spans Canadian and sub-Saharan African contexts using critical qualitative methods.
Room: H2934
Tel: 709-864-2746
kimberly.jarvis@mun.ca 
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Paula Kelly
Kelly, Paula, BN Victoria, MSN UBC, PhD Memorial
Expertise: Nurses’ work, nursing knowledge, women’s health, qualitative research methods, institutional ethnography
Room: H2959
Tel: 709-864-4763
paulak@mun.ca 
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Nicole Lewis-Power

Lewis-Power, Nicole, BN Memorial, MN Dalhousie, PhD Memorial
Expertise: Preterm birth; children with health challenges; school/community/provincial supports for children with health challenges; pediatric nursing; breastfeeding; qualitative research methods
Room: H3457
Tel: 709-864-2958
nicolelewis@mun.ca
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Monari, Esther, BScN Ryerson (now Toronto Metropolitan), MScN D’Youville, PhD Western
Expertise: 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
Room: H3472
Tel: 709-864-8787
enmonari@mun.ca 
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Puddester, Rebecca, BN, MN, PhD (c) Memorial, RN
Expertise: Cancer genomics and hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes, integration of genomics in nursing, oncology nursing, patient-oriented research and co-design, interpretive description, mixed-methods approaches
Room: H2946
Tel: 709-864-3753
rjp823@mun.ca 
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Rauman, Peggy, RN, MN, PhD Memorial
Room: H3459
Tel: 709-864-3608
prauman@mun.ca
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Snow, Nicole
Room: H3475
Tel: 709-864-3607
nicole.snow@mun.ca
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Kathleen Stevens

Stevens, Kathleen, BN, MN, PhD Memorial
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
Room: H2955
Tel: 709-864-7100
kathleen.stevens@mun.ca
Tel: 709-864-7100
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Hrag Yacoubian

Yacoubian, Hrag David, BN, MScN British Columbia (UBC), PhD(c) UBC
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.
Room: H3465
Tel: 709-864-7114
hyacoubian@mun.ca
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Younas, Ahtisham, BScN, MN, PhD Memorial
Expertise: Marginalized populations; compassion and caregiving; implementation science; ethics and nursing education; self-awareness; mixed methods; research methods. Links to Dr. Younas' ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0157-5319 and Google Scholar Profile https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=igF8oKoAAAAJ&hl=en
Room: H2930
Tel: 709-864-7453
ay6133@mun.ca  
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Coordinators 
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Briggs, Yvonne - Program Site Coordinator, Satellite Sites
Room: H3476
Tel: 709-864-8589
ybriggs@mun.ca
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Snow, Stacey - Gander Program Site Coordinator
Tel: 709-864-6161
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Byrne, Janine - Grand Falls-Windsor Program Site Coordinator
janine.byrne@mun.ca
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Gillett, Kathy - Happy Valley-Goose Bay Program Site Coordinator
kathy.gillett@mun.ca
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Crane, Ashley - St. John's Campus Program Site Coordinator (President's Award for Outstanding Teaching (Lecturers and Instructional Staff), 2022
Room: H2946
Tel: 709-864-3458
ashleycrane@mun.ca
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Durdle, Kelli - Clinical Coordinator, BScN (Collaborative), St. John's Campus 
Room: H3471
Tel: 709-864-8507
kdurdle@mun.ca


Lecturers 


Baker, Dana
Room: H3474
Tel: 709-864-2716
dmb314@mun.ca

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Belbin, Dee Anne
Room: H2944
Tel: 709-864-8932
g32dab@mun.ca
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Buffett, Stephanie - Grand Falls-Windsor Site
f22seb@mun.ca 


Byrne, Jeannette
Room: PE2006B
Tel: 709-864-3767
jmbyrne@mun.ca 


Cahill, Denise
Room: ED5004
Tel: 709-864-2104
dncahill@mun.ca 


Ruth Chandran
Chandran, Ruth
Room: H3474
Tel: 709-864-8855
rchandran@mun.ca 


Chaulk, Tasha - Gander Site
Tel: 709-864-3767
a05tmc@mun.ca 


Collett, Krista
Room: H2942
Tel: 709-864-2596
kcollett@mun.ca


Emberley-Burke, Wanda
wanda.emberley.burke@mun.ca


Krista King
King, Krista
Room: H3478
Tel: 709-864-4618
krista.king@mun.ca


Maloney, Amy - Gander Site
Tel: 709-864-6184
aem244@mun.ca 


Mullett, Karen
Room: H2952
Tel: 709-864-7345
k.mullett@mun.ca 


Smith, Deanne
Room: H3464
Tel: 709-864-8823
s62dms@mun.ca
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Smith, Laura - Gander Program Site Coordinator
laura.smith@mun.ca
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Walsh, Derrick
Room: ED-5004E
Tel: 709-864-2270
v16dw@mun.ca


Woolfrey, Charlotte
Room: H3476
Tel: 709-864-4326
cjw2636@mun.ca


Per-Course Appointments


Bolt, Travis
Room: H2954
Tel: 709-864-2104
c93tjb@mun.ca 


Bonia, Alice
Room: H2954
Tel: 709-864-2104
p46amb@mun.ca 


Byrne, Breanna 
Room: H3476
bmdb18@mun.ca


Careen, Vivian
Room: H2954
Tel: 709-864-2104
vivian.careen@mun.ca


Earle-Crane, Michelle 
Room: H2954
Tel: 709-864-2104
michelle.earle.crane@mun.ca


Hutchings, Kendra - Grand Falls-Windsor Site
c54klh@mun.ca 


Johnston, Michelle - Happy Valley-Goose Bay Site
michellej@mun.ca 


Kelly, Joyce - Grand Falls-Windsor Site
joycek@mun.ca 


McDonald, Tammy - Grand Falls-Windsor Site
tammy.mcdonald@mun.ca 


Miller, Leah 
Room: H2954
Tel: 709-864-2104
leah.miller@mun.ca 


Moran, Glenys 
Room: H2954
Tel: 709-864-2104
glenys.moran@mun.ca 


Snook, Gerri - Gander Site
x03glp@mun.ca 


Thompson, Lisa - Grand Falls-Windsor Site
dmillsthomps@mun.ca  


 Honorary Doctorate Degree


Matthews, M.K., BN, MN, LLD Memorial
matthews@mun.ca