Graduate Students

This is a list of graduate as well as post-graduate students that Dr. Valaitis has supervised or worked with as a supervisory committee member. Links have been added to completed thesis projects and published papers where relevant. If you are a past student or current student and would like us to add a link to your work, please contact ruta@mcmaster.ca.

Name	Degree	Ruta's Role	Thesis Topic	More Info
Leena Wu Chau	MSc	Co-Supervisor	Primary care and public health collaboration: A population health approach in the delivery of mental health care	More Info.
Linda Brousseau	PhD	Supervisor	Implementation of models of sexual health programs in public health	More Info.
Anita Stern	PhD	Supervisor	The Complexity of Family Caregiving: Use and Perceptions of Home Telehealth in Palliative Cancer Care	More Info.
Mary Guise	PhD	Supervisor	Computer-mediated-conferencing: support for preceptors of senior nursing students	More Info.
Nancy Wilczynski	PhD	Supervisory Committee Member	Information retrieval: Large biomedical electronic databases	More Info.
Sally Binks	MScN	Supervisor	A Comparison of Nurses’ Similarity Judgments at Two Points in the Novice-Expert Continuum	More Info.
Ellen Buck-McFadyen	PhD	Supervisor	Social Capital in Rural Communities	More Info.
Dr. Judy Burgess	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Co-Supervisor	A Tool to Evaluate Interprofessional Teams in Primary Care	More Info.
Trish Burnett	MScN	Supervisory Committee Member	Mobile technology for the promotion of physical activity in children	More Info.
Maneet Chahal	MScN	Supervisory Committee Member	Access to mental health services for the South Asian population in Peel Region	More Info.
Kristina Chang	MScN	Supervisory Committee Member	Patient engagement in community-based intervention research	More Info.
Stephanie Chiu	MS eHealth	Supervisory Committee Member	Developing the Design for an Online Diuretic Care Tool for Older Patients with Heart Failure by Evaluating its Interactions with Heart Failure Patients and Caregivers	More Info.
Cara-Lee Coghill	MScN	Supervisor	Exploring the Built Environment and Physical Activity in Rural Ontario Health Units	More Info.
Jeri Dunne	MSCN	Supervisory Committee Member	Approaches to Public Health Practice: Exploration of Chronic Disease Prevention in Ontario Health Units	More Info.
Bellraj Eapen	MS eHealth	Supervisor	Efficacy of web-based tailored health communication for behavioural modification in sun safety: A randomized, comparative study of tailored and response independent information delivery	More Info.
Janice Feather	MScN	Supervisory Committee Member	A Narrative Exploration of a Nurse Navigator Role in Primary Care	More Info.
Dr. Rebecca Ganann	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Co-Supervisor	Integrated knowledge exchange with knowledge users in community-based interventions involving extensive patient and caregiver engagement in the community	More Info.
Rachael Haalboom	MScN	Supervisor	Implementation of public health vision screening follow up programs in schools	More Info.
Danielle Hunter	MS eHealth	Graduate Program Student Advisor	An examination of the impact of e-Health on health equity among marginalized populations	More Info.
Sandra Isaacs	PhD	Supervisor	How community-based services work together to address the primary health care needs of recent immigrant children	More Info.
Rojin Karimi	MS eHealth	Supervisor	Design of an e-Health tool to link primary care providers with home care to support stroke patients	More Info.
Christine Kurtz-Landy	PhD	Supervisory Committee Member	Health and social service utilization by “at risk” postpartum women	More Info.
Amanda LeRoux	PhD	Supervisory Committee Member	In Progress	More Info.
Tracey Lovett	MScN	Supervisory Committee Member	Exploring structures and processes that support collaborative practice amongst community health nurses who work with breastfeeding families	More Info.
Jennifer Nicholl	MScN	Supervisor	Community Nurse Networker: A Priority Neighbourhood Pilot Project	More Info.
Kenneth Nwosu	MS eHealth	Supervisory Committee Member	Design and Evaluation of a Two Way Interactive Video eConsult System (TWIVES): A Web-Based Care and Continuity Solution Enabling Secure and Private Patient-Provider Connections When Mobility is Limited or Commuting is Not an Option	More Info.
Kelly O'Halloran	PhD	Supervisory Committee Member	In Progress	More Info.
Lisa De Panfilis	MSc Nursing student	Supervisor	Youth Access to Mental Health Services in Primary Care	More Info.
Beata Penrice	MScN	Supervisor	Nurse Managers as Project Managers: A Gap Analysis of Competencies	More Info.
Beth Potter	MSc	Supervisory Committee Member	Breastfeeding in Public Places	More Info.
Arik Rankin	PhD	Supervisory Committee Member	In Progress	More Info.
Rebecca Spark	MScN	Supervisor	An exploration of experiences of academics and decision-makers in a collaborative program of research	More Info.
Jane Sparkes	MS eHealth	Supervisor	A usability study of patients in their own homes as they set up a cardiac event loop record and Blackberry gateway for remote monitoring	More Info.
Irtaza Tahir	MS eHealth	Supervisory Committee Member	Exploring User Requirements for the Design of an Electronic Patient Decision Aid for Guardians Making Treatment Decisions about Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia	More Info.
Basilhea Woodley	MS eHealth	Supervisor	A scoping review of stroke rehabilitation eHealth apps	More Info.
Lindsay Yuille	MScN	Supervisory Committee Member	Primary Care Nursing Roles in Cancer Support	More Info.
Erin Ziegler	PhD	Supervisor	LGBT populations and access to primary care	More Info.

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