Céline Gélinas, RN, PhD
Professor, Ingram School of Nursing
680 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2M7, Office 1834
celine.gelinas [at] mcgill.ca (celine.gelinas)franco.carnevale [at] mcgill.ca (@mcgill.ca)
514-398-6157
Céline Gélinas, RN, PhD, is a Full Professor at McGill’s Ingram School of Nursing and an Associate Member of McGill’s Department of Critical Care Medicine. She is also a nurse-scientist at the Centre for Nursing Research and project director at the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital.
Prof. Gélinas' past experience as a nurse in the intensive care unit inspired her to develop research in pain and symptom management in critical care. She has developed valid pain assessment tools – for example, Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT), CPOT-Neuro and a Faces Pain Thermometer – used for clinical or research purposes worldwide.
Inspired by an integrative biopsychosocial approach, Prof. Gélinas' research program focuses on innovative assessment tools and preventive interventions for better pain and symptom management to improve recovery outcomes in critically ill adults. She has published research articles and book chapters in pain and critical care, and has presented locally, nationally (e.g. Canadian Pain Society, Critical Care Canada Forum) and internationally (e.g. International Association for the Study of Pain, International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine). Her leadership and significant contributions in pain and critical care nursing have been recognized by the Canadian Pain Society (2014 Early Career Award) and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (2019 Pioneering Spirit Award). She also received two Prix Florence from the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing.
Prof. Gélinas completed her Doctorate in Nursing and Measurement at Université Laval in Quebec City (2004) and Post-Doctoral Training in Nursing at McGill University (2006).
Areas of Interest:
- Critical care nursing
- Pain and symptom management
- Tool/Intervention development
- Nonverbal adult patient