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Dr. Rebecca Ganann is an Associate Professor in the McMaster University School of Nursing and member of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) Collaborative for Health and Aging. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing) from McMaster. Concurrently with her PhD, she also completed a graduate diploma in Health Sciences and Policy Research. During her PhD studies, Dr. Ganann was awarded a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Dr. Ganann completed her postdoctoral fellowship with the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit. She studied the implementation and impact of patient, caregiver, and community engagement in research teams under the supervision of Drs. Maureen Markle-Reid, Ruta Valaitis, and Carrie McAiney. She also completed strategic fellowship training in transdisciplinary primary health care research.

She currently co-leads the MIRA/ACHRU EMBOLDEN Trial, aimed at promoting physical and community mobility of older adults who experience barriers to engaging in community programs and reside in communities of high health inequity. EMBOLDEN partners with communities to co-design and test an intervention to promote health and prevent chronic disease. She is also a co-investigator on the ACHRU Community Partnership Program for Diabetes Self-Management for Older Adults – Canada and the Optimizing Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Older Adults with Stroke and Multmorbidity: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

Rebecca Ganann

RN, PhD

Scientific Director, ACHRU
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University

ganannrl@mcmaster.ca

Hilary Nolan Haupt

Program Manager

(905) 525-9140 x 22018 nolanh@mcmaster.ca

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Dr. Rebecca Ganann is an Associate Professor in the McMaster University School of Nursing and member of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) Collaborative for Health and Aging. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing) from McMaster. Concurrently with her PhD, she also completed a graduate diploma in Health Sciences and Policy Research. During her PhD studies, Dr. Ganann was awarded a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Dr. Ganann completed her postdoctoral fellowship with the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit. She studied the implementation and impact of patient, caregiver, and community engagement in research teams under the supervision of Drs. Maureen Markle-Reid, Ruta Valaitis, and Carrie McAiney. She also completed strategic fellowship training in transdisciplinary primary health care research.

She currently co-leads the MIRA/ACHRU EMBOLDEN Trial, aimed at promoting physical and community mobility of older adults who experience barriers to engaging in community programs and reside in communities of high health inequity. EMBOLDEN partners with communities to co-design and test an intervention to promote health and prevent chronic disease. She is also a co-investigator on the ACHRU Community Partnership Program for Diabetes Self-Management for Older Adults – Canada and the Optimizing Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Older Adults with Stroke and Multmorbidity: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

Dr. Rebecca Ganann is an Associate Professor in the McMaster University School of Nursing and member of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) Collaborative for Health and Aging. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing) from McMaster. Concurrently with her PhD, she also completed a graduate diploma in Health Sciences and Policy Research. During her PhD studies, Dr. Ganann was awarded a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Dr. Ganann completed her postdoctoral fellowship with the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit. She studied the implementation and impact of patient, caregiver, and community engagement in research teams under the supervision of Drs. Maureen Markle-Reid, Ruta Valaitis, and Carrie McAiney. She also completed strategic fellowship training in transdisciplinary primary health care research.

She currently co-leads the MIRA/ACHRU EMBOLDEN Trial, aimed at promoting physical and community mobility of older adults who experience barriers to engaging in community programs and reside in communities of high health inequity. EMBOLDEN partners with communities to co-design and test an intervention to promote health and prevent chronic disease. She is also a co-investigator on the ACHRU Community Partnership Program for Diabetes Self-Management for Older Adults – Canada and the Optimizing Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Older Adults with Stroke and Multmorbidity: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.