Veronique Boscart

Dr. Veronique Boscart currently holds the Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Schlegel Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Seniors Care at Conestoga College,. She completed her doctoral work at the University of Toronto. She also holds an assistant clinical professor position with the School of Nursing at McMaster University; an adjunct assistant professor position at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, and an adjunct scientist position at iDAPT (Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation and Technology) at Toronto Rehab, University Health Network.

Dr. Boscart has extensive nursing experience, including working as a clinician, nurse educator, manager and researcher in an international setting. Her research interests range from the substantive area of evidence-based care in gerontology and best practices in research methods with older adults, to the development gerontological education for health- care professionals and care delivery models in long-term care. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and is the lead author on the first Canadian edition of Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging (2011).