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Glenda SandyGlenda Sandy is a Naskapi Cree nurse from the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach, QC and the Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Manitoba. She is currently working as a Nurse Advisor in Infectious Disease within the Public Health team of the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services. Her role with the NRBSSS is primarily in leading the development of the Public Health Officer program in Nunavik. She holds a BScN from Queen’s University and MSc in Community Health from Université Laval.
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Argerie TsimicalisArgerie Tsimicalis, RN, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Ingram School of Nursing with an Associate Member Status in the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University. She also holds two scientific appointments in the hospital sector in Clinical Research at Shriners Hospitals for Children-Canada and in the Injury Repair Recovery Program at the Montreal University Health Centre Research Institute (MUHC-RI). In 2019, Dr. Tsimicalis was awarded a competitive career award called ‘Chercheur-Boursier Junior 1’ from the Fonds de recherche Québec-Santé (Quebec Medical Research Council). Dr. Tsimicalis serves as one of the National Collaborators for Pain in Child Health, which offers national and international training opportunities. Her program of research is devoted to understanding the costs (and benefits) of childhood illness and disability. Understanding these costs and benefits have set the stage for the creation and evaluation of cost-effective, child- and family- ‘friendly’ innovative health services (e.g. e-health, m-health, virtual reality, and gaming), arts-based resources (e.g. songs and books) and policies (e.g. policy briefs, evidence-informed practice guidelines). Innovations arise through transdisciplinary thinking, global partnerships, and a rich trainee environment. Dr. Tsimicalis’ students come from an astonishingly wide range of backgrounds. She also supervises students with childhood onset illnesses and the siblings of a child with a childhood onset illness. Dr. Tsimicalis strives to ignite the research spark in her trainees, which finds its expression in the many ongoing collaborations that she maintains with her former students. For more details, please visit her website: https://argerietsimicalis.com.
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