Kateryna Metersky

Dr. Kateryna Metersky is an Assistant Professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing. She completed her PhD in nursing at the University of Western Ontario in 2020. Both of her previous degrees (BScN and MN) are from the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing.

Dr. Metersky’s program of research focuses on: 1) international and cross-national collaborations and partnerships; 2) persons with social, economic and health challenges; 3) nursing and interprofessional practice and education; and 4) intersectionality and positionality in population-centred care. She has expertise with qualitative research methods as well as systematic and scoping reviews. Fittingly, her research program is focused on the integration of her Scholarly, Research and Creative work in pedagogy and practice to promote social justice, local and global community well-being, and health equity.

Dr. Metersky continues to maintain her nursing practice in general internal medicine at Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Metersky is currently the Toronto co-city lead for the Inclusive Communities for Older Immigrants project. She is also a member of the manuscript review board of several peer-reviewed journals and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Health Trends and Perspectives. She sits on the Toronto Metropolitan University’s Research Ethics Board as a Reviewer and is the co-chair of the University Senate. She is also the current co-chair of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario’s redevelopment of the Person- and Family-Centred Care Best Practice Guideline. Finally, Dr. Metersky sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative. Dr. Metersky has recently completed the Sigma Theta Tau International Academy training on global advocacy as well as the University of British Columbia’s Program for Open Scholarship and Education.