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Dr. Debra Morgan is an
Associate Professor and Chair, Rural Health
Delivery, at the Canadian Centre for Health and
Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA) in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan. She completed her BSN (1986), MN
(1989), and PhD (Nursing, 1996) at the University of
Saskatchewan. The following three years were spent
as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Founding Chairs
Program of the CCHSA (1996-1997) and the Alzheimer
Society of Canada (1997-1999). In 1999 Dr. Morgan
joined the faculty of the CCHSA (then the Centre for
Agricultural Medicine), where she held a CIHR New
Investigator Award from 1999 to 2004. Currently, Dr.
Morgan is the Principal Investigator for a CIHR-funded
New Emerging Team (NET) grant titled “Strategies to
Improve the Care of Persons with Dementia”, and a
co-investigator and Saskatchewan Lead on a CIHR-funded
($4.7 million) project called “Translating Research
in Elder Care” (PI: Dr. Carole Estabrooks, Canada
Research Chair in Knowledge Translation, University
of Alberta).
Dr. Morgan’s research interest is
primarily in rural health delivery, particularly
long-term care. More specifically, Dr. Morgan’s work
is focused within the following areas within the
context of rural long-term care: care of residents
(particularly with dementia), knowledge translation
and exchange, culture change, and how work life
issues and the physical and social environment in
rural long-term care impacts staff and residents.
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