People

A dynamic, committed team of faculty and staff make up the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing. Together, we support student success, advance innovation in teaching and lead research that drives positive change.

Faculty
Contract lecturers
Staff
Research chairs

- Nancy Walton
  
  RN, PhD
  
  Associate Professor; Director, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6307
  
  Email: nwalton@ryerson.ca

- Annette Bailey
  
  RN, BScN, MSN, PhD
  
  Associate Professor; Associate Director, Collaborative Degree Program
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7851
  
  Email: abailey@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Health promotion and education
  - Traumatic stress and resilience among survivors of community and interpersonal violence

- Suzanne Fredericks
  
  RN, PhD
  
  Professor; Graduate Program Director
  
  Email: sfrederi@ryerson.ca
  
  Website: http://www.fredericksresearch.com
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Quantitative research methods
  - Issues in cardiovascular surgical nursing practice
  - Scoping, systematic, and meta-analytic reviews
  - Issues in clinical trials research
  - Research mentorship and training

- Diane Pirner
  
  RN, BScN, MN, PhD
  
  Associate Professor; Associate Director, Post Diploma Degree Program
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7991
  
  Email: dpirner@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Nursing education
  - Interprofessional education
  - Curriculum development
  - Impact of Life course experiences on ageing
  - Effects of PTSD on aging

- Margareth Zanchetta
  
  PhD, DN, MScN, BScN, RN
  
  Associate Professor; Associate Director, Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4557
  
  Email: mzanchet@ryerson.ca

- Heather Beanlands
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7972
  
  Email: hbeanlan@ryerson.ca
- Susan Bishop
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7842
  
  Email: s2bishop@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Nursing education
  - Learning and teaching scholarship
  - Student engagement
- Cristina Catallo
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 2019
  
  Email: ccatallo@ryerson.ca
  
  Website: https://www.ryerson.ca/ncrev/index.html
- Faith Donald
  
  Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6309
  
  Email: fdonald@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Advanced Practice Nursing (Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist) Education, Research & Practice
  - Health Services & Policy Research
  - Primary Care
  - Long-Term Care
  - Quality Improvement
  - Mixed Methods Research
- Susanna Edwards
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6311
  
  Email: edwardss@ryerson.ca
- Sherry Espin
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7993
  
  Email: sespin@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Qualitative research
  - Patient safety
  - Incident reporting and disclosure
  - Perioperative nursing
  - Teamwork and communication
  - Interprofessional collaboration and education
- Sepali Guruge
  
  Professor and Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing Research Chair in Urban Health
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4964
  
  Email: sguruge@ryerson.ca
- Corinne Hart
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6305
  
  Email: c4hart@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Community nursing theory and practice
  - Interrelationships between power, status and professional identity in interprofessional/interdisciplinary health care work
  - Critical qualitative research
- Jennifer Lapum
  
  Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6316
  
  Email: jlapum@ryerson.ca
- Karen LeGrow
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6327
  
  Email: klegrow@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Pediatric nursing
  - Nurse-family relationships
  - Family nursing practice
  - Advanced practice nursing
- Charlotte Lee
  
  Assistant Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7992
  
  Email: lee.charlotte@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Health services research
  - Interprofessional collaboration
  - Outpatient care in oncology
- Margaret Malone
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6302
  
  Email: mmalone@ryerson.ca
  
  Website: https://www.ryerson.ca/ncrev/faculty/
- Elizabeth McCay
  
  Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6331
  
  Email: bmccay@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Health in vulnerable individuals, families and communities
  - Vulnerable youth and mental health challenges
  - Development and evaluation of strengths-based interventions to promote healthy self-concepts, resilience and adaptive capacity in vulnerable populations
- Coralee McLaren
  
  Assistant Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6300
  
  Email: coralee.mclaren@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Childhood disability/rehabilitation
  - Interdisciplinary methods
  - Integrated education
- Joyal Miranda
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7850
  
  Email: joyal.miranda@ryerson.ca
- Kristine Newman
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4160
  
  Email: kristine.newman@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Knowledge translation – health evidence
  - Gernotechnology
  - Dementia awareness and intergenerational relations
- Nancy Purdy
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 2020
  
  Email: npurdy@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Nursing work environments
  - Patient outcomes
  - Leadership
  - Program evaluation
- Daria Romaniuk
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6310
  
  Email: romaniuk@ryerson.ca
- Donald Rose
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6324
  
  Email: donrose@ryerson.ca
- Joanna (Anneke) Rummens
  
  Assistant Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000 ext. 543595
  
  Email: arummens@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Identity/diversity, equity, inclusion
  - Health of diverse marginalized, disadvantaged, vulnerable populations
  - Community, urban and global health
  - Systems of health, care, healing
  - Health and wellbeing, education, immigration, resettlement, integration
  - Policy-practice relevant research, mixed research methods and design
  - Knowledge transfer, mobilization, uptake, implementation, impact
- Elaine Santa Mina
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4559
  
  Email: esantami@ryerson.ca
  
  Website: https://www.ryerson.ca/ncrev/index.html
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Mental health nursing
  - Leadership
- Lori Schindel Martin
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4257
  
  Email: lori.schindelmartin@ryerson.ca
- Jasna Schwind
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6321
  
  Email: jschwind@ryerson.ca
  
  Website: https://theartofexperience.ca/
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Qualitative research – Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry
  - Teaching-learning
  - Narrative Reflective Process
  - Metaphors
  - Person-centred care in education and practice
  - Mindfulness in education
- Souraya Sidani
  
  Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, and Canada Research Chair in Design and Evaluation of Health Interventions (Tier 1)
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 2572
  
  Email: ssidani@ryerson.ca
- Oona St. Amant
  
  Assistant Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7986
  
  Email: ostamant@ryerson.ca
- Beth Swart
  
  Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6306
  
  Email: bswart@ryerson.ca
- Mandana Vahabi
  
  Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 2725
  
  Email: mvahabi@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Health Equity
  - Immigrants
  - Cancer Screening
  - Women’s Health
- Janice Waddell
  
  Associate Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6314
  
  Email: jwaddell@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Nursing education.
  - Leadership.
  - Violence against women and children.
  - Teaching and learning scholarship.
  - New faculty mentorship.
- Josephine Pui-Hing Wong
  
  Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6303
  
  Email: jph.wong@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Critical public health and urban health promotion
  - Community-based action research
  - Social identities and health practices
  - Migration, HIV, and mental health
  - Intervention research and implementation science
  - Community-driven capacity building and resilience strategies
- Janet Yamada
  
  Assistant Professor
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6308
  
  Email: janet.yamada@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Implementation Science and behaviour change theories
  - Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  - Symptom management in children (e.g., asthma, pain)

- Sue Albanese-Cairns
  
  Contract Lecturer; NSE 22A/B Lead
  
  Email: salbanes@ryerson.ca
- Shirley Alvares
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: s2alvares@ryerson.ca
- Hasina Amanzai
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: hamanzai@ryerson.ca
- Terry Atchison
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: tatchiso@ryerson.ca
- Anne Balon
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: abalon@ryerson.ca
- Judith Barnaby
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jbarnaby@ryerson.ca
- Jonathan Barrios
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jbarrios@ryerson.ca
- Jane Barry-Shaw
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: vbarryshaw@ryerson.ca
- Luisa Barton
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: lbarton@ryerson.ca
- Marlies Bassila
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: marlies.bassila@ryerson.ca
- Susan Blackwood
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: susan.blackwood@ryerson.ca
- Luwieth Bolt
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: lbolt@ryerson.ca
- Sue Bookey-Bassett
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: sbookeybassett@ryerson.ca
- Natalia Bratkov
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: natalia.bratkov@ryerson.ca
- Linda Brousseau
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: lfrost@ryerson.ca
- Sue Calabrese
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: scalabre@ryerson.ca
- Erin Charnish
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: erin.charnish@ryerson.ca
- Adelaide Cho
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: a3hui@ryerson.ca
- Orli Dubrovich
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: orly.dubrovich@ryerson.ca
- Jackie Eli
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jackie.eli@ryerson.ca
- Mitra Fardad
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: mfardad@ryerson.ca
- Roger Firsoff
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: roger.firsoff@ryerson.ca
- Wendy Garcia
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: wengarcia@ryerson.ca
- Valerie Glasgow
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: vglasgow@ryerson.ca
- Franklin Gorospe
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: fgorospe@ryerson.ca
- Dionne Grant
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: dionne.grant@ryerson.ca
- Finola Grant
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: fgrant@ryerson.ca
- Jane Harrison
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jharrisn@ryerson.ca
- Marg HoSang
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: mhosang@ryerson.ca
- Jacqueline Hutson
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jhutson@ryerson.ca
- Patricia Hynes
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: patricia.hynes@ryerson.ca
- Vaska Jones
  
  Contract Lecturer; Year 2 Lead, Collaborative Nursing Degree Program
  
  Email: vmicevsk@ryerson.ca
- Michelle Jubin
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: mjubin@ryerson.ca
- Logan Kennedy
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: vkennedy@ryerson.ca
- David Keselman
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: dkeselman@ryerson.ca
- Nicole Kirwan
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: nkirwan@ryerson.ca
- Nancy Latimer
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: nlatimer@ryerson.ca
- Marie-Claude Maassarani
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: mcmaassarani@ryerson.ca
- Lisa Mak
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: lmak@ryerson.ca
- Tara McCulloch
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: tara.mcculloch@ryerson.ca
- Nancy McGee
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: nancy.mcgee@ryerson.ca
- Jennifer Menezes
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jennifer.menezes@ryerson.ca
- Kateryna Metersky
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: kateryna.aksenchuk@ryerson.ca
- Anne Marie Murphy
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: a3murphy@ryerson.ca
- Lisa Nadurata
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: mnadurat@ryerson.ca
- Pauline Palmer
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: ppalmer@ryerson.ca
- Opal Pascoe
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: opascoe@ryerson.ca
- Dasha Pawlina
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: dcsn@ryerson.ca
- Khelesh Persaud
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: kpersaud@ryerson.ca
- Dawn Peters-Bascombe
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: dpeters@ryerson.ca
- Thomas Pilarski
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: thomas.pilarski@ryerson.ca
- Nadia Prendergrast
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: nprendergast@ryerson.ca
- Janet Rajroop
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jrajroop@ryerson.ca
- Joyce Rankin
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: j1rankin@ryerson.ca
- Sharon Reid
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: s8reid@ryerson.ca
- Tiziana Rivera
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: trivera@ryerson.ca
- Shawna Rooke
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: srooke@ryerson.ca
- Nancy Rudyk
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: nrudyk@ryerson.ca
- Miwa Sakakibara
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: msakakib@ryerson.ca
- David Salib
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: dsalib@ryerson.ca
- Juilett Saunders
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: j3saunde@ryerson.ca
- Connie Sessa
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: csessa@ryerson.ca
- Jennifer Smith
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: jennifer5.smith@ryerson.ca
- Emily Sowah
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: esowah@ryerson.ca
- Cheryll Sweetnam
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: csweetna@ryerson.ca
- Cheryl Tai
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: c4tai@ryerson.ca
- Nicole Tansil
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: ntansil@ryerson.ca
- Rani Thakoordeen
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: mthakoor@ryerson.ca
- Juliet Thomas
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: j6thomas@ryerson.ca
- Nicole Van Doornik
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: nvandoor@ryerson.ca
- Hazel (Kathleen) White-Williams
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: hwhitew@ryerson.ca
- Mary Lou Wilkins
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: mwilkins@ryerson.ca
- Debra Williams
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: d2willia@ryerson.ca
- Kevin Woo
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: k2woo@ryerson.ca
- Akua Yirenkyi
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: ayirenky@ryerson.ca
- Erin Ziegler
  
  Contract Lecturer
  
  Email: eziegler@ryerson.ca

Undergraduate academic advising

- Ivone Alvarez
  
  Student Affairs Coordinator
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6301
  
  Email: ialvarez@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Admissions
  - Academic and administrative processes and procedures
  - Registration activities
  - Scheduling corrections/creation
  - Academic appeals
  - Course planning
  - Conflict resolution
  - Foreign documentation
- Stephanie Assenza
  
  Student Affairs Coordinator
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7136
  
  Email: stephanie.assenza@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Admissions
  - Academic and administrative processes and procedures
  - Registration activities
  - Scheduling corrections/creation
  - Academic appeals
  - Course planning
  - Conflict resolution
  - Foreign documentation
- Richard Perras
  
  Student Affairs Coordinator
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6318
  
  Email: rperras@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Admissions
  - Academic and administrative processes and procedures
  - Registration activities
  - Scheduling corrections/creation
  - Academic appeals
  - Course planning
  - Conflict resolution
  - Foreign documentation

Undergraduate placements

- Shann Beck
  
  Interim Manager, Office of Simulation, Student Placements and Advising
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 6573
  
  Email: s3beck@ryerson.ca
- Ellie Goldenberg
  
  Interim Year 3 Placement Coordinator, Collaborative Nursing Degree Program
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 3354
  
  Email: ellie.goldenberg@ryerson.ca
- Dionne Grant
  
  Year 1 Placement Coordinator, Collaborative Nursing Degree Program and Post-Diploma Degree Program
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 2769
  
  Email: dionne.grant@ryerson.ca
- Melanie Loiselle
  
  Administrator, Central Placement Office
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4545
  
  Email: mloisell@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Meditech training sessions for students
  - Health Sciences Placement Network (HSPnet) online database system
  - Affiliation Agreement negotiations
- Daniella Martins
  - Placement Coordinator, Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner
  - Interim Year 3 Placement Coordinator, Collaborative Nursing Degree Program
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4176
  
  Email: daniella.martins@ryerson.ca
- Stacey Maximo
  
  Year 4 Placement Coordinator, Collaborative Nursing Degree Program
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4252
  
  Email: smaximo@ryerson.ca
- Nicole Tansil
  
  Master of Nursing and Year 2 Collaborative Nursing Degree Program Placement Coordinator
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4253
  
  Email: ntansil@ryerson.ca

Master of Nursing program administration

- Gerry Warner
  
  Graduate Program Administrator, Master of Nursing
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7852
  
  Email: mnnurse@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Graduate student advising and supports, admissions, program administration, funding, course scheduling and enrolments, program policies and guidelines

Master of Nursing placements

- Nicole Tansil
  
  Master of Nursing and Year 2 Collaborative Nursing Degree Program Placement Coordinator
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4253
  
  Email: ntansil@ryerson.ca

Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner academic advising

- Gerry Warner
  
  Graduate Program Administrator, Master of Nursing
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7852
  
  Email: mnnurse@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Graduate student advising and supports, admissions, program administration, funding, course scheduling and enrolments, program policies and guidelines

Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner placements

- Daniella Martins
  - Placement Coordinator, Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner
  - Interim Year 3 Placement Coordinator, Collaborative Nursing Degree Program
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4176
  
  Email: daniella.martins@ryerson.ca

Professional Practice and Simulation Lab

- Merveille Ndondo
  
  Professional Practice and Simulation Coordinator
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7989
  
  Email: mndondo@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Professional Practice and Simulation Lab
  - Use of simulation and skills in nursing practice
  - Practice assistance for students
- Sara Richie
  
  Professional Practice and Simulation Coordinator
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 2556
  
  Email: srichie@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Professional Practice and Simulation Lab
  - Use of simulation and skills in nursing practice
  - Practice assistance for students

Administration

- Gwen Bartleman
  
  Administrative Officer
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 5331
  
  Email: gwen.bartleman@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Application of all non-academic activities and services on behalf of the school
  - Planning, management and administration of financial, human and physical resources
- Lamarana Cooper Diallo
  
  Program Assistant
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 7076
  
  Email: l1cooper@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Administrative support for Collaborative, SRC and other programs
- Shellina Sajan
  
  Departmental Secretary
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 5300
  
  Email: ssajan@ryerson.ca
  Areas of Expertise:
  - Administrative support for students, faculty and staff

- Sepali Guruge
  
  RN, BScN, MSc, PhD
  
  Professor and Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing Research Chair in Urban Health
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 4964
  
  Email: sguruge@ryerson.ca
- Souraya Sidani
  
  PhD
  
  Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, and Canada Research Chair in Design and Evaluation of Health Interventions (Tier 1)
  
  Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 2572
  
  Email: ssidani@ryerson.ca

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