Former Marion Woodward Lecturers

  • 1969: Dr. Helen K. Mussallem (Executive Director, Canadian Nurses Association), Nursing Tomorrow
  • 1970: Dorothy Smith (Dean, University of Florida), Alternative for Nursing
  • 1971: Dr. Muriel Uprichard (Director, UBC School of Nursing), Education of Nurses
  • 1972: Dr. Loretta C. Ford (Dean, University of Rochester), The Courage to Be and the Challenge to Become
  • 1973: A. Isobel MacLeod (Director of Nursing, Montreal General Hospital), The One and the Many
  • 1974: Dr. Helen Glass (Dean, University of Manitoba), Education and Service: A Developing Relationship
  • 1975: Dr. Esther Lucille Brown (International Nursing Consultant, San Francisco), New Developments in Health Care and their Implications for Nursing
  • 1977: Dr. Thelma Joan Wells (Professor, University of Rochester), Care of the Elderly: Nitty Gritty Issues
  • 1978: Margaret Duncan Jensen (Professor, California State University at San Jose), The Expanding Family: A Nursing Perspective
  • 1979: 60th Anniversary, University of British Columbia, School of Nursing
    Dr. Alice J. Baumgart (Dean, Queen’s University), Sixty Years of University Education: Professional Values and Sexual Politics
  • 1980: Dr. Delores Krieger (Professor, New York University), The Therapeutic Touch
  • 1981: Dr. Luther Christman (Dean, Rush University), Toward Parity in Clinical Competence
  • 1982: Dr. Madeleine Leininger (Professor, Wayne State University), Transcultural Nursing
  • 1982: Dr. Amy E. Zelmer (Vice President, University of Alberta), Professional Education in Tomorrow’s University
  • 1983: Ginette Rodger (Executive Director, Canadian Nurses Association), Charting the Next 20 Years: University Education for all Nurses
  • 1984: Dr. Anne J. Davis (Professor, University of California at San Francisco), How Can We Be Sure of the Answers When We Are Not Certain of the Questions?
  • 1985: Marie-France Thibaudeau (Dean, University of Montreal), Nursing: A Positive Force in the Health Care System
  • 1986: Dr. Jeanne Quint Benoliel (Professor, University of Washington), Nursing Science and Nursing Practice: A Reciprocal Relationship
  • 1987: Dr. Joy Durfee Calkin (Dean, University of Calgary), Is the Current Illness Care System in Your Best Interest?
  • 1988: Eva Ryten (Director of Office of Research and Information Service, Association of Canadian Medical Colleges), Women as Deliverers of Health Care: Implications for Change in Canada’s Health Care and Educational Systems
  • 1989: Dr. Margretta M. Styles (Professor and Livingston Chair in Nursing, University of California, San Francisco), The Challenge of Quality Nursing Education
  • 1990: Barbara E. Burke (Vice President, Nursing, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver), Nursing Partnerships – An Imperative for the 1990’s
  • 1991: Dr. Nancy Milio (Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Wired for the Future: Can I.T. Promote Community Health?
  • 1992: Marion Dewar (Former Mayor of Ottawa and Member of Parliament), Nursing in the 21st Century: Developing Healthy Communities
  • 1993: Dr. Jacquelyn C. Campbell (Anna D. Wolf Endowed Professor, Johns Hopkins University), Sanctions and Sanctuary: Culture and Wife Beating
  • 1994: Dr. Katharyn A. May (Professor & Director, UBC School of Nursing), Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing in the Next Decade
  • 1995: Dr. Elizabeth Davies (Professor, UBC School of Nursing and Investigator, British Columbia’s Research Institute for Child and Family Health), Lessons Learned from Research on Palliative Care and Bereavement: Implications for Nursing – Transition or Transformation?
  • 1996: Dr. Verna Huffman Splane (Appointed to the Order of Canada in 1996), International Nursing: From a Creditable Past to a Challenging Future
  • 1997: Dr. Ellen Hodnett (Professor, University of Toronto and the Heather M. Reisman Chair in Perinatal Nursing Research), Nursing Care Makes a Difference: Rhetoric or Reality?
  • 1998: Dr. Christine Miaskowski (Professor and Chair, University of California, San Francisco), Improving Pain Management: An Ongoing Journey
  • 1999: Dr. Julie Sochalski (Associate Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and Assistant Professor of Health Services Research and Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), Determining the Effectiveness of Hospital Reforms: The Science of Outcomes Research
  • 2000: Dr. Lesley Degner (Professor and CHSRF/CIHR National Research Chair, Cancer Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Associate Professor, Department of Family Practice, University of Manitoba), Personal Meanings of Breast Cancer and Health Outcomes: A Three-Year Follow-Up
  • 2001: Dr. Frances Marcus Lewis (Professor of Family and Child Nursing, Elizabeth Sterling Soule Professor of Nursing and Health Promotion, University of Washington), Cancer and the Family: Lessons Learned from Children and Adolescents
  • 2002: Dr. Judith Shamian (Executive Director, Office of Nursing Policy, Health Policy & Communications Branch, Health Canada), Nursing and Health Policy: The Double Helix
  • 2003: Dr. Michael Carter (Professor, University of Tennessee), The Emerging Promise of Nurse Directed Primary Care
  • 2004: Dr. Carole Estabrooks (Associate Professor, University of Alberta), Lost in Translation: Evidence-based Practice in Nursing
  • 2005: Dr. Cynthia Toman (Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa), What You Catch Depends on Where You Fish
  • 2006: Dr. Diane Doran (Professor & Assoc. Dean Research, University of Toronto), In the Palm of Your Hand: The transforming impact of nursing sensitive outcomes
  • 2007: Dr. Dorothy Pringle (Professor Emerita, University of Toronto), Research & Nursing: A match in heaven, hell or someplace in-between?
  • 2008: Dr. Patricia Benner (Professor, University of California, San Francisco), Teaching and Learning in Nursing: A complex practice of care.
  • 2009: Dr. Nancy Edwards (Professor, University of Ottawa), How nurses are making a difference to the health of populations: Lessons from the front lines of care
  • 2010: Dr. Afaf I. Meleis (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), On Globalization and Urbanization and the Risks to Women and the Girl-child
  • 2012: Dr. Sioban Nelson, Dean and Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, The history of the nurse as a global skilled worker – empire, reciprocity and the role of the regulatory field

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