Jamie Penner, University of Manitoba

Research

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Latest papers

European Association of Palliative Care White Paper on research priorities for family caregiving in palliative care: A systematic review of reviews.
Palliative medicine · 2026
Transforming Care Through Co-Design: Developing Inclusive Caregiver-Centered Education in Healthcare.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Double-duty caregivers enduring COVID-19 pandemic to endemic: "It's just wearing me down".
PloS one · 2024

All 4 publications

Latest funding

Evaluating a Compassionate Community Volunteer Navigation Approach to Supporting Older Persons Living with Life-Limiting Illness and Frailty in Rural Communities.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,208,701
Implementing, Evaluating and Scaling Up the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) Program in Canada
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$948,600

All 2 grants and awards

4 publications.

01

European Association of Palliative Care White Paper on research priorities for family caregiving in palliative care: A systematic review of reviews.

Gardiner C, Crawford E, Platts C, Reid J, Gonella S, Odom JN, DeVleminck A, Loucka M, Wallin V, Penner J, Payne S, Hudson P

Palliative medicine2026

DOI: 10.1177/02692163261465764 PMID: 42708430

02

Transforming Care Through Co-Design: Developing Inclusive Caregiver-Centered Education in Healthcare.

Parmar J, L'Heureux T, Lewanczuk R, Lee J, Charles L, Sproule L, Henderson I, Chaudhuri ER, Berry J, Shapkin K, Powell L, Nicholas D, Tarnowski G, Leslie M, Lobchuk M, Kaattari J, Porter A, Ewa V, Podlosky L, Pei J, Mosaico S, Penner J, Saunders S, Anderson S

Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)202513 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare13030254 PMID: 39942443

03

Double-duty caregivers enduring COVID-19 pandemic to endemic: "It's just wearing me down".

Parmar J, L'Heureux T, Lobchuk M, Penner J, Charles L, St Amant O, Ward-Griffin C, Anderson S

PloS one202410 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298584 PMID: 38626216

04

Evaluation of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) programme: a protocol of a cluster randomised control trial

Kaasalainen S, Wickson-Griffiths A, Hunter P, Thompson G, Kruizinga J, McCleary L, Sussman T, Venturato L, Shaw S, Boamah SA

BMJ Open20232 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073585 PMID: W4387932205

Evaluating a Compassionate Community Volunteer Navigation Approach to Supporting Older Persons Living with Life-Limiting Illness and Frailty in Rural Communities.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Pesut, Barbara K; Hassan, Eman S; Seow, Hsien-Yeang

Keywords: Community-Engaged Research; Compassionate Communities; Navigation; Palliative; Rural; Volunteer

$1,208,701

Implementing, Evaluating and Scaling Up the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) Program in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kaasalainen, Sharon J; Hunter, Paulette V; Mccleary, Lynn; Sussman, Tamara; Thompson, Genevieve N; Venturato, Lorraine; Wickson-Griffiths, Abigail L

Keywords: Aging; Long Term Care; Palliative Care; Participatory Action Research

$948,600

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

Frequent collaborators

Sharon June Kaasalainen and Jenny Ploeg: 90 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Tamara Sussman: 70 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Ruth Martin-Misener: 46 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Genevieve Thompson: 31 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Thomas Hadjistavropoulos: 30 shared papers
Genevieve Thompson and Tamara Sussman: 26 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Lorraine Venturato: 23 shared papers
Tamara Sussman and Lorraine Venturato: 23 shared papers
Tamara Sussman and Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin: 20 shared papers
Ruth Martin-Misener and Jenny Ploeg: 19 shared papers
Genevieve Thompson and Lorraine Venturato: 19 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths: 18 shared papers
Jenny Ploeg and Tamara Sussman: 16 shared papers
Shane Sinclair and Lorraine Venturato: 11 shared papers
Tamara Sussman and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths: 11 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Shane Sinclair: 10 shared papers
Shane Sinclair and Genevieve Thompson: 10 shared papers
Genevieve Thompson and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths: 10 shared papers
Jenny Ploeg and Thomas Hadjistavropoulos: 9 shared papers
Catherine Ward-Griffin and Oona St-Amant: 9 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Sheila Boamah: 8 shared papers
Myles Leslie and Sharon Anderson: 7 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin: 6 shared papers
Ruth Martin-Misener and Thomas Hadjistavropoulos: 6 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Paulette Hunter: 5 shared papers
Tamara Sussman and Paulette Hunter: 5 shared papers
Abigail Wickson-Griffiths and Paulette Hunter: 5 shared papers
Shane Sinclair and Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin: 4 shared papers
Sheila Boamah and Tamara Sussman: 3 shared papers
David Nicholas and Richard Lewanczuk: 3 shared papers
Sheila Boamah and Thomas Hadjistavropoulos: 2 shared papers
Tamara Sussman and David Nicholas: 2 shared papers
David Nicholas and Myles Leslie: 2 shared papers
David Nicholas and Sharon Anderson: 2 shared papers
Sharon Anderson and Jamie Penner: 2 shared papers
Sharon June Kaasalainen and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Sheila Boamah and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Ruth Martin-Misener and Myles Leslie: 1 shared paper
Ruth Martin-Misener and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Jenny Ploeg and Catherine Ward-Griffin: 1 shared paper
Jenny Ploeg and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Shane Sinclair and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Catherine Ward-Griffin and Sharon Anderson: 1 shared paper
Catherine Ward-Griffin and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Genevieve Thompson and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Tamara Sussman and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
David Nicholas and Jacqueline Pei: 1 shared paper
David Nicholas and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Oona St-Amant and Sharon Anderson: 1 shared paper
Oona St-Amant and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Myles Leslie and Richard Lewanczuk: 1 shared paper
Myles Leslie and Jacqueline Pei: 1 shared paper
Myles Leslie and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Richard Lewanczuk and Sharon Anderson: 1 shared paper
Richard Lewanczuk and Jacqueline Pei: 1 shared paper
Richard Lewanczuk and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Lorraine Venturato and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Jacqueline Pei and Jamie Penner: 1 shared paper
Jamie Penner and Abigail Wickson-Griffiths: 1 shared paper
Jamie Penner and Paulette Hunter: 1 shared paper

Nursing
College of Nursing
Aging, Social Gerontology
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
Department of Educational Psychology
Department of Community Health Sciences
Department of Psychology and Health Studies
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Sharon June Kaasalainen

Nursing

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Jacqueline Pei

Department of Educational Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Penner, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "European Association of Palliative Care White Paper on research priorities for family caregiving in palliative care: A systematic review of reviews." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]