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Lisa Knisley

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Pathway: PILLAR

Biography

Lisa is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Manitoba with over 25 years of nursing experience in Canada, USA and the UK. Since 2012, she has been part of the leadership team for Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK), a national knowledge mobilization network based at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. Through TREKK, Lisa leads provincial and national research to accelerate the speed at which the latest evidence in children’s emergency care is accessible to and useful for healthcare providers and patients/families. Lisa completed a PhD within the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta and is partnering with the Manitoba Métis Federation to research meaningful and useful ways to co-create and share child health information with Red River Métis families in Manitoba. She is a busy mom of two teenagers and loves to read, travel and find ways to get more sleep!

Discipline: Nursing

Centre: University of Manitoba

Supervisors / Mentors: Terry Klassen

Project Title: Cultural adaptation of child health resources