Research Chair in Health Innovation Established in the UNB Faculty of Nursing
Author: UNB Newsroom
Posted on Dec 3, 2024
Category: Press Releases
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) announced today the establishment of the Hon. Joan Kingston Research Chair in Health Innovation, supported by a $1.25 million dollar gift from the Hon. Joan Kingston Foundation.
The Hon. Joan Kingston (BN’78) is a health advocate and was appointed to the Senate in 2023. As member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1995 to 1999, she held various portfolios, led the Minister’s Advisory Committee on Multiculturalism and chaired the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She worked for a decade within UNB’s faculty of nursing as a lecturer and clinical instructor, and as co-manager of the Fredericton Downtown Community Health Centre, a teaching facility she played a key role in establishing.
The Hon. Joan Kingston Research Chair in Health Innovation will contribute significantly to the body of research on health-care innovation and will be active at UNB in teaching, research, public service and models of primary care service delivery. The inaugural chairholder is Alexis (Ali) McGill, assistant professor in UNB’s faculty of nursing.
“Joan Kingston is a UNB Nursing graduate who has worked tirelessly to further nursing education in New Brunswick, so it is tremendously fitting that this research chair in health innovation should be named in her honour. We are so grateful to the Hon. Joan Kingston Foundation for their generosity in establishing this important new chair, and we have no doubt that Dr. McGill’s impact in the chair will contribute to the betterment of our health-care system in New Brunswick and beyond,” said Lorna Butler, UNB’s dean of nursing.
“I am exceptionally proud of my longstanding affiliation with UNB’s faculty of nursing, and I continue to be impressed by the fine work done by its teachers, clinicians and researchers. So, it gives me great pleasure to see this chair established here – I am excited to see what Dr. McGill accomplishes over her five-year term,” said the Hon. Joan Kingston.
Photo caption L to R: Dr. David MaGee, Dr. Lorna Butler, Dr. Ali McGill, The Hon. Joan Kingston P.C., Hon. Cindy Miles, Mayor Kate Rogers, Dr. Paul Mazerolle
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