Trauma-Informed Care Practices to Support Caregivers

BC Pomeroy is a Queer Researcher, an Award-Winning Patient Public Engagement Specialist, and an uninvited settler-person on the shared, traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Snuneymuxw (snuh-nay-moe) territory also known as Gabriola Island, British Columbia. BC has a particular interest in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI+) and has co-developed a Trauma & Resiliency Informed Practice program for Research and Evaluation; a strength-based approach to Patient-Oriented Research.  They sit on the board of Health Quality BC Oversight & Advisory Council, Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Evidence Alliance (SPOR EA), and Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy (CAHSPR).

Dr. Lindsay Jibb holds the Signy Hildur Eaton Chair in Pediatric Nursing Research at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto and is a Certified Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurse. Lindsay’s research program is broadly focused on enhancing quality of life and improving psychosocial care for children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer and their families with focus on: user-centered development and evaluation of digital health technologies for symptom management; interventions to empower and support the health of family caregivers of children with cancer; and child with cancer- and caregiver-oriented research priority identification and engagement in research.