People Directory

Dr. Christine Cassidy, PhD, RN is a Registered Nurse, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University, and Clinician Scientist at IWK Health...

Grace graduated from Dalhousie University with a BSc in Health Promotion (2025). She first joined the IWK in 2024 as a summer student in the...

Miriam is a certified Health Information Management professional, accredited by the Canadian College of Health Information Management (CHHIM). As a Decision Support Analyst, she applies...

Jamee is a Transformation Consultant with a passion for driving change and making things work better. She holds a BSc in Biology from Mount Allison...

Patti has worked as a Registered Nurse at IWK Health following her time in a rural hospital. Throughout her career, Patti has worked in patient...

Madi has worked as a Registered Nurse in pediatrics at the IWK Health Centre since graduating with her BScN from Dalhousie University in 2014. She...

Jaime has over 15 years of experience in hospital and outpatient-based pharmacy practice. Throughout her career, Jaime has worked in community pharmacy, research, management, education...

Leena Philip is the administrative assistant to the manager for Maritime Child Health. Leena comes from India, where she graduated with her Masters in Physiotherapy...

Katie McDonald MN RN, is the manager of Maritime Child Health. In this role she is accountable for providing leadership and fostering partnerships aimed at...

Kyle MacDonald is Portfolio Manager with Gallant MacDonald. The firm designs bespoke investment programs for a select group of families and institutions who have made...

Juliana graduated from Dalhousie University in 2023 with an Honours degree in Neuroscience. During her undergrad, Juliana developed the logos for the Shhh study, helped...

Daria recently joined the lab as a volunteer. She is nearly done her BSc in Psychology at Dalhousie and looks forward to being more involved...

Originally from Izmir, Turkey, Gökçe completed their Bachelor’s in Psychology and Cinema & Media Studies at Dalhousie University. They are passionate about investigating the complexities...

Jack is a recent graduate from Dalhousie’s Neuroscience Honours program. He worked with Dr. Thomas and Dr. Pinto at IWK Health on a Diabetes Honours...

I am currently completing my fifth year as an Honours Psychology student at the University of King's College. With a minor in social anthropology, I...

Áine is currently working on her honours project with Dr. Megan Thomas, looking at sleep knowledge in Early Childhood Development Interventionists in Nova Scotia, and...

My name is Jessica and I am a second year Dalhousie medical student with a few years of experience in healthcare as a registered nurse...

MacKayla graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Neuroscience and is in her first year of Medical School. Her Honours thesis...

Momina is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Dalhousie University, supervised by Dr. Megan Thomas and co-supervised by Dr. Isabel Smith at the Autism Research...

Victoria began in the lab as an BSc Psychology student, exploring qualitative data on families’ sleep experiences at IWK for her honours thesis supervised by...

I am a UK trained Developmental Paediatrician, who worked in the NHS for over 30 years, mainly in the Northwest of England, on the Fylde...

Gabrielle Miller is the IWK’s bilingual nurse coordinator/infirmière coordinatrice des services bilingues. In this role, she coordinates language services at the IWK, including both interpretation...