Research
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Latest papers
Public Health Palliative Care: A commitment to dying, death, and grief in Canada.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
A Good Life with Impairment: Illuminating and Supporting the Experiences of Women Living With Cancer through Community-Based Art Workshops.
Health promotion practice · 2026
Quality of Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Exploration of Bereaved Caregivers' Experiences at a Hospice Residence.
Journal of palliative medicine · 2024 · senior author
Latest funding
- $121,056
Making “nonessential” family/volunteer caregiving essential in LTC
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $24,813
The role of the arts and humanities in the education of health professionals: What is the impact?
CIHR · 2011 · Co-investigator
11 publications.
Public Health Palliative Care: A commitment to dying, death, and grief in Canada.
Macdonald ME, Cadell S, Grassau P, Stadjuhar K
A Good Life with Impairment: Illuminating and Supporting the Experiences of Women Living With Cancer through Community-Based Art Workshops.
Thomas R, Houle S, Egan M, Gifford W, Grassau P, King J, Boulanger J, Rheault A, Séguin K
Quality of Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Exploration of Bereaved Caregivers' Experiences at a Hospice Residence.
Vincent D, Moore H, Miller J, Grassau P
Relational Care, Dementia, and Communication Challenges in Long-Term Care: A Meta-Ethnography.
Novy C, Thomas R, Grassau P, Gifford W, Hosseini M
Centering sexual and gender diversity within Compassionate Communities: insights from a community network of LGBTQ2S+ older adults.
Grassau P, Stinchcombe A, Thomas R, Wright DK
The experience of delirium in palliative care settings for patients, family, clinicians and volunteers: A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis.
Featherstone I, Hosie A, Siddiqi N, Grassau P, Bush SH, Taylor J, Sheldon T, Johnson MJ
Burnout and resilience among Canadian palliative care physicians.
Wang C, Grassau P, Lawlor PG, Webber C, Bush SH, Gagnon B, Kabir M, Spilg EG
Gaps in Hospice and Palliative Care Research: A Scoping Review of the North American Literature.
Antonacci R, Barrie C, Baxter S, Chaffey S, Chary S, Grassau P, Hammond C, Mirhosseini M, Mirza RM, Murzin K, Klinger CA
Dead on the table: A theoretical expansion of the vicarious trauma that operating room clinicians experience when their patients die.
Hartley H, Wright DK, Vanderspank-Wright B, Grassau P, Murray MA
Finding the sweet spot: Developing, implementing and evaluating a burn out and compassion fatigue intervention for third year medical trainees.
Tucker T, Bouvette M, Daly S, Grassau P
Making “nonessential” family/volunteer caregiving essential in LTC
Principal investigators: Robitaille, Annie; Garcia, Linda J; Law, Madelyn P; Mccleary, Lynn; O'Sullivan, Tracey L
Keywords: Covid-19; Long-Term Care; Pandemic
The role of the arts and humanities in the education of health professionals: What is the impact?
Principal investigators: Hall, Pippa G
Keywords: Arts In Medicine; Evidence Based; Health Education; Health Humanities; Humanities And Arts Research; Interactive Learning; Interdisciplinary; Interprofessional Collaboration; Knowledge Exchange; Medical Humanities
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Wendy Gifford and Roanne Thomas: 11 shared papers
- Roanne Thomas and Judy King: 6 shared papers
- Mary Egan and Judy King: 3 shared papers
- Roanne Thomas and Chad Hammond: 3 shared papers
- Roanne Thomas and Pamela Grassau: 3 shared papers
- Wendy Gifford and Mary Egan: 2 shared papers
- Wendy Gifford and Chad Hammond: 2 shared papers
- Wendy Gifford and Judy King: 2 shared papers
- Wendy Gifford and Pamela Grassau: 2 shared papers
- Mary Egan and Roanne Thomas: 2 shared papers
- Kate Murzin and Sharon Baxter: 2 shared papers
- Mary Egan and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Roanne Thomas and Arne Stinchcombe: 1 shared paper
- Chad Hammond and Kate Murzin: 1 shared paper
- Chad Hammond and Sharon Baxter: 1 shared paper
- Chad Hammond and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Kate Murzin and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Arne Stinchcombe and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Sharon Baxter and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Bruno Gagnon and Colleen Webber: 1 shared paper
- Bruno Gagnon and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Susan Cadell and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Colleen Webber and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Judy King and Pamela Grassau: 1 shared paper
- Pamela Grassau and Pippa Hall: 1 shared paper
- Rehabilitation Sciences
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Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Roanne Thomas
Rehabilitation Sciences
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Wendy Gifford
Nursing Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Pippa Hall
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Chad Hammond
Rehabilitation Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Kate Murzin
Infectious Diseases
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Arne Stinchcombe
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Sharon Baxter
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Bruno Gagnon
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Susan Cadell
Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Colleen Webber
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Judy King
Rehabilitation Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Mary Egan
Rehabilitation Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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