Liana Bailey

Academic Liaison & Hub Coordinator

Liana is a Registered Nurse and PhD candidate in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. She currently works as the Academic Liaison and Hub Coordinator for the Palliative Care and Nursing Ethics Hub. She also works as a Research Associate with Roger Neilson Children’s Hospice and Canada’s Pediatric Palliative Care Alliance. Her research interests include childhood ethics, pediatric palliative care, and grief literacy. For her doctoral work, she is currently conducting an ethnography in children’s hospice. She is the recipient of multiple awards and scholarships, including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the Marian McGee Award.

Kristina Ma

Kristina is a registered nurse and PhD candidate in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. Her master’s work explored nurses’ moral experiences of ethically meaningful end-of-life care, across a number of palliative and end-of-life care contexts. For her doctoral research, Kristina hopes to better understand the nature of nurses’ moral responsibilities, and how their responsibilities shape their moral agency and moral identities. Her research interests include contemporary concepts in nursing ethics, feminist theory, relational ethics, palliative and end-of-life care nursing practice, and qualitative methodologies. Kristina has clinical experience in critical care, and policy experience in the prison context at a national level.

Helen Hudson

Helen Hudson has a clinical background in palliative care and acute care, as well as extensive experience in social justice activism. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Marian McGee Award at the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral project focuses on dying and palliative care among Canadian long-term prisoners.

Tricia Woodcock

Tricia is a registered nurse and a PhD student in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa in Fall of 2024. Tricia has clinical and management experience in both acute and long term care, and administrational and teaching experience in the post secondary sector. Her research interests include feminist critical theory, relational ethics, and palliative end of life care within a long term care context.

Justin Vaillancourt

Justin is a Registered Nurse and a PhD student in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. He works in the regional nephrology program at Health Sciences North and is a sessional instructor at Laurentian University. He has previous practice experience in critical care and organ and tissue donation. His proposed PhD work is to explore the experiences of nurses working at the intersection of medical assistance in dying and organ and tissue donation.

Fabienne Germeil

Fabienne has a nursing career of over 25 years. Her career trajectory has brought her to be involved at bedside, consultant positions, middle management. She currently works in a senior role in management and teaching. Pursuing a PhD is one of her career goal. She hopes to lend a stronger voice to the strategic decision-making tables where she can advocate for access and funding to a palliative approach for all that need it.

Andrea Bentz

Andrea is a Registered Nurse and PhD student in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. Her clinical experience is primarily in the pediatric emergency department. Her research interests include organizational management, moral distress and injury, and pediatric nursing practice. She is grounded in qualitative methodologies. For her doctoral work, she is preparing a critical ethnography exploring moral injury in pediatric emergency nurses. 

Lifei Wang

Lifei is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Nursing at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. He is also a registered nurse in China. He used to be a critical care nurse at the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of Medicine and a lecturer at Hangzhou Medical College in China. He was awarded the China National Scholarship in 2019 and the Academic Excellence Award for the doctoral program in 2023. His research interests include palliative and end-of-life care for non-cancer patients, nursing care for dying patients in the ICU. For his doctoral work, he is working on exploring decisional conflict in shared decision-making in palliative care for patients with advanced heart failure using a mixed-methods research design.