- Faculty
- Professors Emeritae
- Sessional Lecturers
- Staff
- Sessional Instructors
- Adjunct Faculty
- In Memoriam
Dean's Bio
Dr. Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine joined UWindsor as Dean of the Faculty of Nursing in Sept. 2021. Coming from Nova Scotia with 30 years of experience as a Canadian educator including 15 years of international teaching, research and project experience, Debbie’s program of research includes successfully leading an international research team on interprofessional learning within a simulated, family assessment environment. She has completed a study on enhanced home visiting practices that surround women and children who live within vulnerability. Currently, she is on an implementation science research team examining collaborative, interprofessional practices that foster community and citizen access to health services and optimal scope of RN practice in emergency services. Understanding the impact of vulnerability on interprofessional practices and women and children’s lives have shaped and influenced her lifelong passions and collaborative work in the community, public health and with families. The social determinants of health, resilience and family nursing theory and understanding system structural practices informs all of her work.
Debbie values learning methodologies that provide creative, interactive ways to build student’s involvement in their own learning. Facilitating simulation using standardized patients and actors for many years in Canada and internationally Debbie has developed family assessment and interviewing skills among thousands of BScN Canadian and International students. She expanded her teaching to include nursing and medical students learning together best practices for family assessment and intervention.
With ten years of experience co-leading international mobility projects that included three countries, Canada, USA and Mexico and six universities, Debbie thrives on collaboration and understands the opportunities that working internationally brings to broadening perspectives of students, academics, practitioners and communities. She has been part of collaborative research teams in Canada and internationally, published as part of a team in peer reviewed journals and presented individually and as part of a team at international peer reviewed conferences.
Debbie has been active professionally as the immediate, past chair of the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam Committee for CNA in Ottawa, the Nova Scotia representative as a subject matter expert in the review of the entry level competencies with the Canadian Council of RN Regulators and recently elected to the CASN accreditation board. She is an active member of the International Family Nursing association research and practice teams who actively work to support global health of families.
FACULTY
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Dr. Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine
, PhD, RN
Room 336 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Susan Fox,
RN, BN, MScN, PhD
Associate Dean and Associate Professor Research Focus :
Room 300 Toldo HEC
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Prof. Judy Bornais
, RN, BA, BScN, MSc, CDE
On leave to be Acting Executive Director, Office of Experiential Learning - July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2022 Academic Ancillary Staff III - Experiential Learning Specialist Teaching Leadership Chair Research Focus :
519.253.3000, x2269
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Prof. Natalie Bownes,
RN, BScN, MScN, PhD (student)
Academic Ancillary Staff II - Clinical Practice Learning Specialist: Years 1 & 3 Clinical
Research Focus:
Room 318 Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x 4383
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Dr. Jamie Crawley
, RN, BScN, BA (Psychology), BA (Sociology), MBA, PhD
Associate Professor Research Focus :
Room 319 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Edward Cruz,
RN, CCNE, DMD, BScN, BN, MEdM, MScN, PhD
Assistant Professor Research Focus:
Room 322 Toldo HEC
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Prof. Susan Dennison
, RN, BScN, MScN, CPPS
Academic Ancillary Staff II - Clinical Practice Learning Specialist: Years 2 & 4 Clinical Research Focus :
Room 308 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Lorna de Witt
, PhD, RN
Associate Professor Research Focus :
Room 302 Toldo HEC
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Prof. Rachel Elliott
, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD(s)
Lecturer Research Focus:
Room 328Toldo HEC
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Dr. Laurie Freeman,
RN, BScN, MSN, PhD
Associate Professor and PHCNP Graduate Coordinator Research Focus :
Room 303 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Natalie Giannotti
, RN, BHK, MN, PhD
Assistant Professor Research Focus:
Room 316 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Debbie Kane
, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD
Acting Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies Research Focus :
Room 302 Chrysler Hall Tower/Toldo 312
519.253.3000, x2107
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Prof. Kelly Kennedy
, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD(c)
Lecturer Research Focus :
Room 310 Toldo HEC
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Prof. Amanda McEwen
, RN, BSc (Honours Bio.), BScN, MScN
Academic Ancillary Staff - Experiential Learning Specialist Research Focus:
Room 3126 Medical Education Building
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Dr. Noeman Mirza,
RN, BScN, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus:
Room 326 Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x2275
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Dr. Sherry Morrell
, RN(EC), BScN, Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate, MN, MCISc (Wound Healing), PhD
Assistant Professor and NP Program Administrator
Research Focus
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Room 306 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Linda Patrick
, RN, PhD, Dean of Nursing, 2010 to 2020
On leave
Associate Professor
Research Focus :
Room 3122, Medical Education Building
519.253.3000, x4372
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Dr. Kathy Pfaff
, RN, BScN, MSc, PhD
Room 304 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Gina Pittman,
BScN, MN-NP, PhD
Assistant Professor Research Focus:
Room 314 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Jody Ralph
, RN, BSc, BScN, MSc, PhD
Acting Associate Dean,Graduate Programs Great Lakes Biennial Nursing Conference (GLBNC) Chair
Research Focus:
Room 301 Toldo HEC
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Dr. Debbie Rickeard
, RN, BScN, BA, MScN, DNP, CCRN, CNE
Academic Ancillary Staff - Experiential Learning Specialist
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Dr. Eric Tanlaka
, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD
Assistant Professor
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PROFESSORS EMERITAE/RETIRED:
Research focus: Mental health - individual and group counselling
Research Focus : Women's health, maternal/child health (infertility; emotional health), community health, incivility in Nursing Education
Dr. Mary Louise Drake
, mld@uwindsor.ca - Associate Professor Emeritae
Chairperson,
Building Blocks for Better Babies
Dr. Kathryn Edmunds
, RN, PhD- Assistant Professor
kedmunds@uwindsor.ca
Research Focus
: Migration and health of temporary foreign workers, culture, diversity and cultural safety, community health
Dr. Cheri Hernandez
, RN, BScN, BA, MEd, PhD (Education), PhD (Nursing), cherih@uwindsor.ca
Research focus
: Theory of integration & interventions in diabetes, grounded theory research, and instrument/scale development
Prof. Patricia McKay , RN, BScN, MSc - pmckay@uwindsor.ca
Dr. Sharon McMahon
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mcmaho3@uwindsor.ca
Research Focus
: Values clarification and moral decision-making, animal-assisted therapy and bereavement, and nursing history and the arts
Dr. Dale Rajacich,
RN, BScN, MScN, PhD
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rajacic@uwindsor.ca
Research focus
: breast cancer and international collaboration
Dr. Janet N. Rosenbaum
, Director of the School of Nursing, 1981-1986
Dr. Barbara Thomas,
Associate Vice President Academic, University of Windsor, 1991-1996, thomas9@uwindsor.ca
Dr. Karen Williamson
, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD,
karenw@uwindsor.ca
Research Focus:
Cardiovascular nursing and intervention research
Prof. Lucia Yiu (Matuk)
, BSc, BScN, BA, MScN, lyiu@uwindsor.ca
Research Focus:
Health promotion, breast health, multiculturalism
SESSIONAL LECTURERS
Prof. Mary Chick
, RN, BScN, MSc
Sessional Lecturer
Room 313 HEC
519.253.3000, x2287
mchick@uwindsor.ca
Prof. Antoinette Dimitroff
, RN, BScN
Sessional Lecturer
Room 315 HEC
519.253.3000, x4380
dimitrof@uwindsor.ca
Prof. Brenda McLaughlin
, RN, BScN, BA (Psychology), MN
Sessional Lecturer
Room 315 HEC
519.253.3000, x4387
bmcla@uwindsor.ca
STAFF
Mr. Brett Colman
IT Support Technician
Room 201G Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x4382
Brett.Colman@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Rosalba Iannicello
Receptionist/Secretary
Room 336 Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x2265
rosalbai@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Joy Lesperance
Dean's Secretary
Room 336 Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x2259
joyl@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Fran Meloche, RN, MScN
Student Success Coordinator
Room 201B Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x2274
fmeloche@uwindsor.ca
Manager, Finance & Adminstration,
Ms. Abi Thirughnanasambantham
Nursing Programs & Student Support (Undergraduate) Secretary
Room 336 Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x6129
Ms. Lacey Rivest, RN, BScN, CHPCN, MN(Student)
Clinical Lab Coordinator
Room 210 Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x2282
lacey.rivest@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Susan Rotondi-Moore
Clinical Placement Secretary and Clinical Pre-Clearance contact
Room 201C Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x4918
srotond@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Suneeta Singh
Nursing Programs & Student Support (Graduate) Secretary
Room 336 Toldo HEC
519.253.3000, x2260
ssingh@uwindsor.ca
Contact information for Sessional Instructors:
Charron, Debra debrac@uwindsor.ca
Daabous, James James.Daabous@uwindsor.ca
Dafesh, Andre Andre.Dafesh@uwindsor.ca
Derbyshire-Green, Marlene jbgreen@uwindsor.ca
DiSabato, Christina disabato@uwindsor.ca
Dobson, Kim Kimberley.Dobson@uwindsor.ca
Evans, Shelley sevans@uwindsor.ca
Fields, Patti Patti.Fields@uwindsor.ca
Hufano, Ruel Ruel.Hufano@uwindsor.ca
Jacobs, Joanne jjacobs@uwindsor.ca
McMahon, Sarah sarmc22@uwindsor.ca
Morreau, Donna dmorreau@uwindsor.ca
Paquette, Cynthia cynthiag@uwindsor.ca
Pekrul, Kerry kpekrul@uwindsor.ca
Rajaratnam, Jayne jay73@uwindsor.ca
St. John, Don Don.StJohn@uwindsor.ca
Sweet, Heather hsweet73@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Eleanor Groh - Lecturer - Eleanor.Groh@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Karen Riddell - Lecturer
Ms. Virginia Walsh - Lecturer - walsh552@uwindsor.ca
Ms. Donna Wellington - Lecturer
Dr. Karen Williamson - Assistant Professor - karenw@uwindsor.ca
IN MEMORIAM
Prof. Anna Gupta (November 5, 2018), Director of the School of Nursing, 1970-1975
Lily Powis , Receptionist (September 1, 2018)
Dr. Sheila Cameron (January 19, 2016), Director of the School of Nursing, 1986-1995 and Dean, Graduate Studies and Research, 1996-2005
Prof. Mathilde McGarvey (July 6, 2013), Retired Professor
Dr. Anna Temple (August 10, 2012), Retired Professor and Former Director - details and tribute information
Dr. Donna M. Foley
, RN, PhD
June 8, 1944 - April 13, 2006
On April 13, 2006, the Faculty of Nursing lost a trusted educator, scholar and mentor after a short battle with cancer. To read about Donna, go to the following links below.
Paula Margaret Heydon
April 21, 1952 - June 18, 2005
Lab Manager, Faculty of Nursing
Heydon, Paula Margaret (nee Hrecniuk) R.N.
Peacefully at home surrounded by her family and friends on June 18, 2005 at 53 years of age after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. Beloved wife and best friend of Rick for 32 years. Loving mother of Trevor and wife Kelly. Dear daughter of the late Sam and Jennie Hrecniuk of Chatham. Daughter-in-law of Les and Sadie Heydon. Cherished sister of Sylvia and the late Gerry Bresnahan of Grosse Ile, MI, William and wife Donna Hrecniuk, David and wife Carole Hrecniuk of Chatham. Sister-in-law of Randy and wife Shelley Heydon, Cindy Anstett and friend Mark, Brian and wife Kim Heydon of Leamington. Many nieces and nephews also survive. Paula will be sadly missed by many friends and co-workers. Paula was a well respected professional in Windsor health care for many years. In lieu of flowers, donations to Hospice of Windsor or the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre would be appreciated by the family. Cremation Services were held. Memorial Visitation Wednesday 9 am until time of Memorial Service at 11 am. at St. Barnabas’ Church (2115 Chilver Rd.). Arrangements entrusted to Families First Funeral Home & Tribute Centre (969-5841) 3260 Dougall Ave. Rev. Lance Smith officiating Special thanks to John and Linda Grubisich, Dave and Joyce Blake, Henry and Helen Moro, Paul Popov and friend Diane, Sandy Dennison, everyone at the Windsor Regional Cancer Clinic, the VON and the Hospice of Windsor for their care and support.
P.Y. Abraham
Professor, Faculty of Nursing
Professor Abraham taught Leadership and Management, as well as community health nursing theory and clinical in year four. He coordinated the community program for many years and was well respected by the community partners. He was also active in promoting multi-culturalism in the Windsor-Essex County. He is fondly remembered as a good listener, humble, generous, and always supportive of new faculty members.
He was survived by his wife and two daughters.
Dr. Mary Berry (October 25, 2019), Retired Professor
Dr. Devamma Purushotham (October 29, 2019), Professor Emeritus
Dr. Kaye Fawdry ( February 19, 1939- March 13, 2020)
Fawdry, Dr. Mary Kaye EddRN BscN
Dr. Kaye passed away peacefully with her best friend and brother by her side at the age of 81 years. She was the beloved wife, best friend and soulmate of Gerald Richardson for 31 years. Dearest sister-in-law of Marilyn Fawdry (Wayne Wood). Loving sister to Gerry (Shirley Fawdry); in-laws, Bill Richardson and Dorothy Lake. Cherished friend of Kaye Moderwell, retired CEO of VON. Dearest thank you to the staff and volunteers at Hospice of Windsor, their professionalism and dedication are outstanding and made Kaye's final days as comfortable as possible.
Memorial visitation and Mass will be held at a later date . Arrangements entrusted to WINDSOR CHAPEL (Central Chapel) 519.253.7234. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to be made to Hospice of Windsor.
Dr. Sheila Dresen (September 10, 1937- March 12, 2022)
Dr. Dresen commenced her employment on August 1, 2000 with the University of Windsor as an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, a position she held until her retirement July 1, 2003. From August 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001, Dr. Dresen was appointed Director of the School of Nursing, and then from July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2003, Dr. Dresen was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Nursing.
Dr. Dresen's obituary can be found here: https://www.arbormemorial.ca/chapellawn/obituaries/sheila-dresen/80600