Argerie Tsimicalis, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
680 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2M7, Office 1835
argerie.tsimicalis [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 514-398-8142
Argerie Tsimicalis, RN, PhD, holds two scientific appointments in Nursing and Patient Care Services, Shriners Hospitals for Children®-Canada and Injury Repair Recovery Program, Montreal University Health Centre Research Institute (MUHC-RI). Further, Dr. Tsimicalis leads/co-lead three knowledge mobilization networks: Virtual Reality for Child Care, and Advancing Childhood Cancer Experience, Science & Survivorship (ACCESS), and the Quebec Network for Intersectoral Research in Sustainable Oral and Bone Health (RiSBOd), and serves as a mentor for following child health research networks: Pain in Child Health (PICH); Empowering Next-Generation Researchers in Perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH); and Increasing Capacity for Maternal and Paediatric Clinical Trials (IMPACT). Her program of research strives to collaboratively create new programs, structures, and resources to transform the delivery of children's health services locally and globally. In 2021, Dr. Tsimicalis was ranked Top 0.33% in the world for her expertise in the care of children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and their families by ExpertScape. Since her arrival at McGill in 2012, Dr. Tsimicalis has supervised students from an astonishingly wide range of backgrounds including: nursing, medicine, psychology, music, education, biochemistry, epidemiology, engineering, and business administration. She also supervises students with childhood onset illnesses. Dr. Tsimicalis strives to ignite the research spark in her trainees, which finds its expression in award-winning supervision [Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching (2022) and Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Graduate Faculty Teaching Award (2023)], and many ongoing collaborations she maintains with her former students.
Areas of Interest:
- Health economics
- Global health/global oncology
- Childhood illness
- Knowledge mobilization
- Children’s literature, music and arts
- E-health, m-health, virtual reality, and robotics