Post-Doctoral Fellows
Raissa Passos Dos Santos
Raissa is a nurse and researcher interested in advancing care for children with complex needs. She completed her doctoral degree at McGill University in 2021 and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montreal. Her research program was focused on the diverse perspectives associated with the experiences of children living with medical complexity. During the Ph.D. program, she was the recipient of the David McCutcheon Pediatric Palliative Care Doctoral Fellowship and awarded the Doctoral training scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche Santé du Quebec (FRQ-S). She is presently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Montreal Shriners Hospitals for Children in collaboration with McGill University and a Research Associate in the VOICE team (Views On Interdisciplinary Childhood Ethics) at McGill University. Her research interests include Pediatric Nursing, Health Care of Children with Medical Complexity, Pediatric Palliative Care, Global Health, Ethics and Bioethics in Pediatrics, and Nursing Ethics and Practice.
Marianne Sofronas
Marianne is a nurse, clinical ethicist, and anthropologist. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa with the PCNE Hub, working with Dr. Kim McMillan on a CIHR funded study on creating compassionate communities and enabling environments to enhance nurse retention and return to work. Marianne’s research interests include neuropalliative care, clinical ethics, personhood in illness, clinical and organizational applications of compassionate frameworks, and ethnography with vulnerable populations. She is a faculty lecturer at the Ingram School of Nursing, and a clinical ethicist at the McGill University Health Centre. Marianne completed her PhD in nursing at McGill University in 2022, and her doctoral project was an ethnography of neuropalliative care. Marianne also holds an BA (McGill) and MA (New School for Social Research) in anthropology, and an MSc (McGill) in nursing. She is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including the Richard and Edith Strauss Clinical Research Doctoral Fellowship (2016-2018), and Doctoral Training Awards from the Fonds de Recherche Santé du Québec (2018-2022), and the Quebec Ministere de l’Enseignement Superieur /OIIQ (2021-2022). Prior to obtaining her PhD, Marianne worked for over a decade as a nurse clinician in neuro-critical care.
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