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School of Nursing
Faculty of Health and Social Development
ART360 (ARTS Building)
1147 Research Road
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
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Christine Balfour | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | Christine.Balfour@ubc.ca | 12503062510 | ART 148
Research Interests: Strong interest in community health, adolescent sexual health, teaching and learning
Courses & Teaching: Team Lead for UBC SON Year 2: Community & Mental Health Nursing
Nursing 111 - Foundation of Health
Nursing 228 - Community Health
Nursing 238 - Community Health in Practice
Nursing 428 - Advanced Community Health
Julianne Barry | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | School of Nursing | julianne.barry@ubc.ca | 250.807.8742 | RHS 117
Joan L. Bottorff | Professor | Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP), School of Nursing | joan.bottorff@ubc.ca | 250.317.0810 | Arts 223A
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Health promotion, health behaviour change, healthy lifestyles, community health, gender influences, cancer prevention, smoking cessation, harm reduction, men's health, family health, knowledge translation
Courses & Teaching: Qualitative research, research methods, nursing theory
Rishma Chooniedass | Lecturer | School of Nursing | rishma@mail.ubc.ca | 250-807-9038 | Arts 161
Research Interests: Maternal and child health; paediatrics; food allergy and anaphylaxis
Courses & Teaching: NRSG 120 Introduction to Nursing Research
NRSG 122 Introduction to the Profession of Nursing II
NRSG 126 Health and Healing I
NRSG 136 Nursing Practice I
NRSG 338 Nursing Practice with Childbearing Families
NRSG 339 Nursing Practice in Child Health
Jasmine Clark | Nursing Practice Placement Coordinator | School of Nursing | jasmine.clark@ubc.ca | 250.807.9976 | ART341
Nicole De Bosch Kemper | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | nicole.deboschkemper@ubc.ca
Jacqueline Denison | Associate Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | jacqueline.denison@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Global Health and Health Equity; Nursing Education
Courses & Teaching: Recently taught courses:
Nursing 112: Professional Practice I
Nursing 126: Health and Healing I
Nursing 432: Capstone Community Project
Sheila Epp | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | sheila.epp@ubc.ca | 250-807-9975 | Art 339
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Curriculum Development; Pedagogy; New Graduate Transition
Courses & Teaching: She has taught in multiple areas across the undergraduate program. Most recently her teaching has included:
NRSG 422 Leadership
NRSG 431 Capstone Acute Care Preceptorship
NRSG 434 Practice Electives
NRSG 439 Global Health Practicum
Marion Fauth | Administrative Assistant | School of Nursing | marion.fauth@ubc.ca | 250-807-8180 | CCS Building | Room 253
Vicki Foley | Associate Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development | vicki.foley@ubc.ca | ARTS 161
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: nursing pedagogy, clinical teaching/learning, preceptorship, nursing workforce issues, & care of the elderly; expertise is in qualitative methodologies
Courses & Teaching: Graduate Courses: NRSG 506 Qualitative Research, NRSG 504 Finding & Integrating Knowledge for Evidence Informed Practice, NRSG 597 Healthcare Capstone Practicum
Undergraduate Courses: NRSG 431 Capstone Acute Care Preceptorship
NRSG 434 Practice Elective, NRSG122 Introduction to the Profession of Nursing
Norma Hilsmann | Lecturer | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | norma.hilsmann@ubc.ca | 250.807.9961 | Arts 147
Research Interests: Pharmacology in Nursing
Methods of Student Evaluations of Teaching in Nursing
Primary Care Nursing in BC
Nursing Education using Microlearning
Research Dissemination
Courses & Teaching: N210, N220 - Pharmacology I and II
N236, N237, N336, N337 - 2nd and 3rd year Medical and Surgical Clinicals
N431/434 - Preceptorship
N432 - Group Leadership Capstone Project Seminar
N421- Acute Care NCLEX preparation
Brenda Huber | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | brenda.huber@ubc.ca | 250-718-3327 | CCS 251
Dennis Jasper | Lecturer | School of Nursing | dennis.jasper@ubc.ca
Courses & Teaching: NRSG 229 Mental Health in Nursing
NRSG 239 Mental Health Clinical Practice
NSRG 313 Relational Practice V
NRSG 427 Advanced Mental Health (elective)
Lindsay Kennedy | Associate Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | lindsay.a.kennedy@ubc.ca | 250.807.9710 | A132
Graduate student supervisor
Courses & Teaching: NRSG 423: Advanced Clinical Reasoning for Care of the Complex Client
NRSG 126: Health and Healing I
Clinical practice Year 2, 3 and 4
Elizabeth Keys | Assistant Professor | School of Nursing | Elizabeth.Keys@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Pediatric sleep; Parent-child interactions; Infant and parental mental health; eHealth and precision health; Community engagement; Community and public health nursing; Mixed methods; Knowledge synthesis; Integrated knowledge translation and implementation science
Muriel Kranabetter | Associate Professor | School of Nursing | muriel.kranabetter@ubc.ca | ART 131
Courses & Teaching: Relational Practice, Community Practice, Capstone Projects, Global Health
Donna Kurtz | Associate Professor | School of Nursing | donna.kurtz@ubc.ca | 2508079627 | RHS 120
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Indigenous Health and Wellness Traditional and Western; Decolonizing Strength-based Approaches; Qualitative research; Cultural Safety education and practice
Courses & Teaching: Interdisciplinary Health:
HINT 408/508 Cultural Safety in Health: Indigenous Perspectives
Laura Mercer | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | laura.mercer@ubc.ca | 250-807-8487 (Office), 250-801-5167 (Cell) | CCS 251
Lisa Moralejo | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | lisa.moralejo@ubc.ca | 250-807-9956 | ART 134
Research Interests: Nursing education; technology in education; education
Nelly Oelke | Associate Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | nelly.oelke@ubc.ca | 250.807.9880 | RHS 118
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Integrated health systems and services delivery; primary health care; mental health; rural health; climate change and climate change events and mental health; integrated knowledge translation and implementation science.
Courses & Teaching: NURS 505 Healthcare Policy
NURS 597 Capstone Course
NURS 581 Leadership in Knowledge Application and Translation
Barbara Pesut | Professor | School of Nursing | barb.pesut@ubc.ca | 250-807-9955 | ASC 287
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Palliative and end-of-life care; Medical Assistance in Dying; volunteer and peer navigation models; nursing philosophy
Courses & Teaching: Nursing 580: Philosophy of Nursing Science
Nursing 504: Evidence-Based Practice
Katrina Plamondon | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | katrina.plamondon@ubc.ca | 778-392-8111 | ART 360
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Connecting knowledge with action for health equity; knowledge translation science; critical pedagogy; methods for relational, responsive research; dialogue-based research; arts-informed research; transformational research
Courses & Teaching: HEAL 307 (Winter 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
CCGHR Knowledge Translation Summer Course (Summer 2020, 2021)
Manuela Reekie | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | manuela.reekie@ubc.ca | 250.807.9441 | ART 342
Cathy Robinson | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | Cathy.Robinson@ubc.ca | ART177
Courses & Teaching: NRSG 522
NRSG 523
NRSG 329
NRSG 339
Charlene Esteban Ronquillo | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | charlene.ronquillo@ubc.ca | ART 143
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Health informatics; nursing; health equity; implementation science
Courses & Teaching: NRSG 504 - Finding and Integrating Knowledge for Evidence-Informed Practice (Spring 2022)
Kathy Rush | Professor | School of Nursing | kathy.rush@ubc.ca | 250.807.9561 | ART150
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: atrial fibrillation; rural cardiac service delivery; rural health equity, telehealth; aging; new graduate nurse transition
Courses & Teaching: NRSG 542: Introduction to Leadership and Management
Michael Sandler | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | michael.sandler@ubc.ca | 604.209.1149 | Virtual
Courses & Teaching: Nursing - Policy and Regulation
Sana Shahram | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP), School of Nursing | sana.shahram@ubc.ca | 250.807.8685
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Health Equity; Critical Population Health; Health Systems Transformation; Anti-colonial & anti-racist public health systems; Public Health; Mental Health and Substance Use; Maternal & Child Health; Complex Systems Change; Community- & Indigenous Nation- Led Research
Courses & Teaching: HES 130- Social Determinants of Health
Laura Struik | Assistant Professor | School of Nursing | laura.struik@ubc.ca | 2508079972 | ART 140
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Nicotine dependence; youth and young adults; health promotion and gender-sensitive approaches; behavior change using digital technologies
Courses & Teaching: NRSG 500: Nursing Knowledge
NRSG 597: Capstone Practicum Course
Charlene Strumpel | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | charlene.strumpel@ubc.ca | 250.807.8173 | ART 167
Courses & Teaching: I primarily teach in the acute care portion of the second year of the BSN program, in which students are introduced to the fundamentals of caring for clients in a medical or surgical setting. I generally teach:
NRSG 226 Health and Healing II
NRSG 227 Health and Healing III
These two theory courses focus on evidence-informed assessment and management of health challenges. I also teach some sections of:
NRSG 236 Nursing Practice II
NRSG 237 Nursing Practice III
These practice courses utilize an Intentional Learning framework to support students to integrate knowledge, skills, and abilities in the clinical practice setting.
Marie Tarrant | Professor | School of Nursing | marie.tarrant@ubc.ca | 250-807-9297 | ARTS 340
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Maternal and Child Health; Breastfeeding; Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative; Maternal and Childhood Vaccine Uptake; Influenza Vaccine
Courses & Teaching: Public Health Nursing, Epidemiology, Doctoral Seminar.
Bonny Taylor | Associate Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | Bonny.Taylor@ubc.ca | 250.807.9973 | ART 343
Research Interests: Geriatric nursing
Emergency nursing
Experience of emergency nursing caring for geriatric patients
Theory-practice gap in nursing education
Courses & Teaching: Health and Healing in 3rd and 4th year
Nursing 336- clinical practice in a medical setting
Nursing 337- clinical practice in a srugical setting
Melanie Willson | Lecturer | School of Nursing | melanie.willson@ubc.ca | 250-807-8468 | ART132
Research Interests: Active learning; perinatal and childbearing families health; lactation; clinical education; remediation in clinical practice; preceptorship.
Courses & Teaching: Teaching in 2021-22:
NRSG 328: Health of the Childbearing Family
NRSG 320: Global Health
NRSG 422: Leadership
NRSG 431/434: Capstone Acute Care Preceptorship and Practice Electives
Ryan Wilson | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | School of Nursing | ryan.wilson@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Dr. Wilson's research is focused on two areas of Self-Care in Atrial Fibrillation: 1) Before diagnosis-To build capacity among adults to perceive, evaluate and respond to their symptoms leading to early treatment-seeking and care; 2) Post Diagnosis-To enhancing patients' self-care and management of their AF and its related symptoms following an AF diagnosis. Cardiovascular diseases; Health Promotion; Patient‐Oriented Research; AF Self-Care and Education; Primary Care, Diagnosis Medical; Aging
Courses & Teaching: Nursing 326: Health and Healing III- Evidence-informed assessment and management of complex health challenges in both episodic and chronic illness utilizing a case study approach.
Nursing 421: Complex Health Challenges / Capstone Course- This course is designed to prepare fourth year nursing students for the NCLEX examination and transition into the new graduate nursing role.