Educational Summary:

• BA, University of Western Australia
• BScN, Curtin University of Technology
• MPhil(N) – Massey University, New Zealand
• PhD, University of California at San Francisco
• Associate Professor of Nursing

Key Area(s) of Interest:

• Public Health Nurse/Nursing (Past Flight Nurse-RFDS)
• Nursing Theory and concepts/analysis
• Transcultural Nursing and Women’s Health
• Environment and Health Issues
• Visual data
• Nursing Informatics
• Nursing Research
• Nursing History
• Nursing Leadership & Management
• Nursing Trends & Issues
• Community Health

Research Interests

• Qualitative Expertise=Grounded Theory and Ethnography, Photography
• Quantitative Methodologies including epidemiology
• Environment and Women’s Health and Subjective Well-Being
• Breast Cancer Screening and Re-screening
• Pandemic Flu’ Preparedness
• Nursing History
• Palliative Care/Nursing Issues

Professional Practice, Committees and Voluntary Work

• Serve on Near North Palliative Care Network (NNPCN) Board of Directors
• Member North Bay Amateur Radio Club(emergency communications)
• Member CNO-College of Nurses of Ontario
• Member-RNAO-and special interest groups
• Member-Sigma Theta Tau
• Fellow-College of Nursing, Australia
• Canadian Health Researchers Directory
• Chronic Illness Research Network
• Serve on Standing Committee-Scholarship& Research-CASN-Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
• Nipissing University REB-Research Ethics Board
• Researcher Member with NOPHC-Northern Ontario Public Health Consortium

Go to the people, Learn from them, Love them, Start with what they know, Build on what they have; But of the best leaders, When their task is accomplished, Their work is done,