Dr. Gail Tomblin Murphy wears many hats in the run of a week: a health system and nurse leader, researcher, a champion for innovation, an expert advisor on workforce planning, and an advisor of PhD students and post-doctoral fellows.
Claire Ward is a registered respiratory therapist and quality leader with the Perioperative Services team at Nova Scotia Health’s QEII Health Sciences Centre, where she works as an anesthesia assistant in the operating room.
Nova Scotia doctors and scientists are partnering with colleagues in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador to focus on research that will improve cancer outcomes in Atlantic Canada.
Dr. Thomas Skinner, a Nova Scotia Health researcher and urologist, is developing an invention that has the potential to dramatically change one of the key components of a kidney transplant.
National Volunteer Week is a great time to reflect on the expertise, wisdom and experience that volunteers in research bring to the health system in Nova Scotia.
Dr. Marie-Laurence Tremblay, manager of Nova Scotia Health’s Research Ethics Board, attributes its success to the board members, all of whom volunteer their time to support the integrity, safety and quality of research at Nova Scotia Health.
During the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems globally were put in the difficult position of developing criteria to ration access to critical care as large numbers of patients were admitted to hospital with life-threatening symptoms caused by the virus.
Nova Scotia attracts researchers and scientists from all over the world, and Nova Scotia Health is the ‘home away from home’ for many researchers and scientists.
