Kateryna Metersky

Dr. Kateryna Metersky is an associate professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing and interim director of the School of Occupational and Public Health. 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 and concept analyses. 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 is an affiliate scientist with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Immigration and Settlement and The Institute of Education Research at University Health Network (external link)  and the Canadian Centre for Mentoring Research (external link) . 

Dr. Metersky continues to maintain her nursing practice in general internal medicine at Toronto Western Hospital. She 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 15 peer-reviewed journals, on the editorial board of the International Journal of Health Trends and Perspectives and a handling editor for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. She sits on Toronto Metropolitan University’s research ethics board as a reviewer and is the vice-chair of 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. She 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.