Academic Clinician, Nursing Research Lead
Providence Care Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Sarah is an Academic Clinician (Nurse Practitioner) and the Nursing Research Lead at Providence Care Hospital. Her clinical specialty is Diabetes Management, a field she has been practicing in since 2012 when she started the Diabetes Consult Service to service inpatient units, outpatient renal and outpatient oncology clinics. In 2024 she moved her clinical practice to Providence Care Centre - a subacute hospital focusing on rehabilitation, mental health and complex medical care. In addition to maintaining her clinical practice, Sarah is involved in hospital operations as the Advanced Practice Nursing Manager, and acts as the Nursing Research Lead to promote accessible and practical opportunities for front-line research. She graduated from Western University in 2007 (BScN), the University of Toronto in 2012 (MN-NP) and in 2021 she completed her PhD at Queen's University where she holds an adjunct lecturer position. She was an author on the Diabetes Canada 2018 guidelines and remains active with Diabetes Canada as a chapter author for The Essentials (a diabetes resource text) in addition to sitting on the Dissemination and Implementation Committee for the best practice guidelines. She is a co-chair for the Diabetes Canada conference for 2025 and for the Kingston Nursing Research Conference 2025.
Sarah has received various awards and grants for her diabetes-related research and pilot-project initiatives. Her primary areas of research are real-world diabetes studies and administrative data research.
Disclosure(s): I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose
Friday, November 28, 2025
10:30 - 11:45 Toronto