Wilson

Rosemary Wilson

Position(s)

OPDES Health Sciences Education Researcher

Contact Info

rosemary.wilson@queensu.ca

Dr. Rosemary Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing/ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Queen’s University and a Nurse Practitioner in chronic pain care at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. She is a registered Nurse (Extended Class), HBScN (Lakehead), MN (Dalhousie), PhD (Toronto). She has been a Registered Nurse for 31 years and an NP since 2000. She has practiced in diverse settings: home care, acute care medicine and surgery and outpatient specialty care as well as surgical care in a referral hospital in Rwanda. She has expertise in opioid deprescribing and risk mitigation that is the result of my practice, my research program and from work I have done developing educational materials for controlled substance prescribers. She has recently completed two, three-year terms as the Associate Director responsible for graduate programs in the School of Nursing. She is the Deputy Director, Practice for the Queen’s Collaboration for Health Care Quality (QcHcQ): A JBI Centre of Excellence. Her work with QcHcQ includes the generation of knowledge syntheses and translation for practice and the provision of systematic review training.

Dr. Wilson's program of research is grounded in clinical practice in all contexts and reflective of four main areas: pain care, knowledge exchange, access to care and interprofessional education. In the time since her initial appointment, she has received $11,115,857 in total research funding as principal and co-investigator and published 69 peer reviewed papers and two book chapters.

She has 4 grown children, a very tolerant husband and a ridiculous cat and is the primary caregiver for her 93-year-old mother. She is a crazy sailor and spends her spare time on the water either racing or cruising.

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