Veronique Boscart

President (2018-2020)

Dr. Veronique Boscart is a gerontological nurse clinician, and chair holder of the CIHR/Schlegel Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Senior Care funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). 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 of gerontological education for health care professionals and care delivery models in residential care. She has published over sixty peer reviewed manuscripts and is the lead author on the first and second Canadian edition of Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging (2011, 2018).

Dr. Boscart was involved with the CAG early on in her career as a member of the CAG Student Connection, followed by two terms on the Board of Directors (2014-2017). Dr. Boscart was also the President-Elect (2013-2015), the President (2015-2017), and the Past President (2017-2019) at the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association, and has been a Section Editor for the Social Policy and Practice section at the Canadian Journal on Aging since 2014. Dr. Boscart’s contributions and commitment to the CAG have proven to be consistent and longstanding, as she is passionate about the lives and wellbeing of Canadian older adults.

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