Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Christopher Picard
CD, MN, RN, ENC(C)
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Trauma and Forensic Service. Island Health, Victoria, BC.  Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Christopher Picard has worked in tertiary, rural, and remote areas as an emergency nurse. In his role as a medic with the Canadian Forces he has worked in prehospital, clinical and austere roles both domestically and abroad. Chris currently works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Trauma and Forensic Services with Island Health on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. His research interests are trauma care, evidence-based practice and knowledge translation. 

 

Editors

Heather McLellan
MEd, BN, RN, CEN, CFRN
Associate Professor, Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB

Heather McLellan is an Associate Professor with Mount Royal University in the Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing Program. She has almost 40 years of emergency, critical care and transport nursing experience working in Canada and Internationally with twenty years of that time spent working on helicopter air ambulances including Air One (Tyler, Texas), University of Texas Life Flight (Galveston, Texas) and Alberta Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS, Calgary). Heather has authored, edited and reviewed multiple items for textbooks and journals for transport and emergency. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Air & Surface Transport Nursing Association, Canadian Aerospace Medicine and Aeromedical Transport Association, the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing for both Emergency and Transport Nursing Specialty exams and as a peer reviewer for the Air Medical Journal. Heather maintains clinical currency working in the Foothills Medical Centre Emergency Department, Calgary’s Level One Trauma Centre. Her teaching focus is online distance education for the adult professional. Research interests include prehospital and critical care patient transport and scholarship of teaching and learning as it relates to advanced nursing education.

Matthew J Douma
MN-HLSA, RN, ENC(C), CCN(C), CNCC(C)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Matthew has been an emergency nurse since 2006. He is currently a clinical nurse educator at the Royal Alexandra Hospital Emergency Department and an adjunct associate professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alberta. His clinical and research interests are in the areas of resuscitation and emergency department operations. 

Kar Lin Su

MN, NP (FAA)

Nurse Practitioner - Trauma Services, Alberta Health Services. Edmonton, AB. 

Kar Lin Su is a Trauma Nurse Practitioner in Alberta with over eight years of frontline experience as a Registered Nurse in high-acuity emergency care. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated a commitment to advancing nursing practice, education, and patient care. Kar Lin is an active contributor to the professional nursing community, serving on various committees such as the Alberta Union of Nurse Practitioners and the Edmonton Police Services Chief Community Council. Her research interests include trauma resuscitation, critical care, and the integration of evidence-based practices in emergency settings. With a passion for mentorship and collaborative learning, Kar Lin is dedicated to contributing to the growth and development of nursing through research and editorial work.

 

Jeanesse Bourgeois

MN, RN 

Clinical Coordinator, Montreal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre, Pointe-Claire, QC

Jeanesse Bourgeois is the Clinical Coordinator for the Emergency Department at the CIUSSS Ouest de l'ile de Montreal. She brings with her years of prior experience with the McGill University Health Center. Fourteen years of her career have been spent as an assistant nurse manager in the emergency department of the Montreal General Hospital, specializing in trauma and mental health. She also spent time as the unit manager in the MUHC COVID-19 testing center.

After graduating from McGill University with a BScN in 2004, Jeanesse went on to complete a diploma in health care management from McGill University in 2009 and most recently a Masters in Nursing from Athabasca University in 2022.

Jeanesse has a strong interest in quality improvement in health care completing a thesis looking at the accuracy of trauma triage and the impact on quality of care in the emergency department. She has been involved in numerous projects involving major changes in practice in the emergency department. Her work from her thesis research as well as other projects has been presented at several local and national conferences including the National Emergency Nurses Association national conference in 2019 and the Trauma Association of Canada conference in 2022.

Dawn Peta

BN, RN, ENC(C)

Clinical Instructor Rural South for Alberta Health Services.

Dawn Peta has worked in tertiary and rural as an emergency nurse and has been practicing for 30 years. Dawn currently works as a Clinical Instructor Rural South for Alberta Health Services. Her research interests are trauma care, advocacy, evidence-based practice and education.

 

Alexandra Lapierre

inf., Ph. D.

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC 

Alexandra completed her PhD at the Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal, in June 2023. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Université Laval. Her research focuses on enhancing trauma care quality through optimized interprofessional collaboration. Her postdoctoral project aims to identify interprofessional interventions that impact collaboration throughout the trauma care continuum and to assess their implementation in Quebec hospitals. In addition to her research, Alexandra is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association des infirmières et infirmiers d'urgence du Québec since 2020 and serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Soins d'urgence, contributing to the advancement of emergency nursing knowledge.

Gabriela Peguero-Rodriguez

PhD / Inf., PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, Nursing Department, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, Quebec

Gabriela Peguero-Rodriguez is a nurse and assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). She teaches critical care courses and clinical rotations. Passionate about emergency care, she is vice-president of the Quebec Emergency Nurses Association (AIIUQ) and co-editor of the journal Soins d'urgence. She holds a doctorate in nursing from the University of Ottawa. Her dissertation focused on the transition of seniors and their caregivers from long-term care facilities to the emergency department. Her research interests include family caregiving, aging, transitions, and emergency care.