Digital Education for Patients Recovering from Cardiac Surgery

Robert Wells is a retired senior higher education administrator with expertise in Information Technology and Educational Technology. Rob is a member of the SPOR Evidence Alliance, the NL Support Patient and Public Advisory Council, and the AI4PH Community Advisory Board. He also has an individual membership with Digital Health Canada. Rob brings lived experience to the project, having undergone two major surgical procedures in 2019. He currently lives with a chronic illness. Rob is committed to Canadian healthcare improvement and is particularly interested in the areas of Learning Health Systems, Patient Education, and the Transition from Hospital to Home.

Janet Curran is a Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University and a Research Chair in Quality and Patient Safety at IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health and Dalhousie University.

She is the Scientific Lead in the Strengthening Transitions in Care lab at IWK Health where her program of research is focused on co-designing and evaluating best practice and policy change interventions to improve transitions in care for patients and families. Her co-design work is informed by collaborating with multiple stakeholders including patients, parents and caregivers, healthcare providers, and policy makers.

Dr. Cassidy is a registered nurse with expertise in implementation science, evidence-based practice, and behaviour change. She completed her BScN at the University of Prince Edward Island and PhD in Nursing at Dalhousie University. Dr. Cassidy also completed a CIHR Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship at the IWK Health Centre and University of Ottawa with the Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Research Network. Her program of research uses an IKT approach to design, implement, and evaluate evidence-based practices and knowledge translation interventions in pediatric care.