Dr. Jean Wilson

Biography

Jean Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. She graduated from Lakehead University in 1991 and began her nursing career at a small Indigenous hospital in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Jean has extensive experience in primary health care clinical practice, community health, and communicable disease epidemiology, having worked in remote Indigenous communities in Nunavut and Northern Ontario. After completing a Master of Health Science in Community Health Epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 1997, she worked for several years at St. Michael’s Hospital in the Tuberculosis Disease Management Program. In 2003, Jean moved to Ottawa to participate in the Field Epidemiology Training Program with the Public Health Agency of Canada, where she evaluated health surveillance systems for troops in Bosnia and specialized in communicable disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. In 2007, she returned to primary health care as a Nurse Practitioner at the Aboriginal Community Health Centre, and in 2010, she returned to Toronto to practice at St. Michael’s Hospital with the Academic Family Health Team. In January 2020, Jean joined the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing in a full-time role, teaching pathophysiology, pharmacology, advanced health assessment, and global health for Nurse Practitioners.

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