Sonia Semenic, RN, PhD
PhD Program Director and Associate Professor, Ingram School of Nursing
680 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2M7, Office 1810
sonia.semenic [at] mcgill.ca
514-398-1281
Sonia Semenic, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Ingram School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and a nurse-scientist at the McGill University Health Centre. She is a member of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and is co-founder of the Canadian Breastfeeding Research Network. Professor Semenic completed a Master’s of Science (Applied) (1989) and a doctoral degree (2005) at McGill’s Ingram School of Nursing, as well as a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa (2007). She has many years of experience as a certified lactation consultant and clinical nurse specialist in maternal child health. Her research program uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the development, implementation and sustainability of evidence-informed practices in nursing and perinatal health
Areas of Interest:
- Breastfeeding protection, promotion and support
- Nursing best-practices in neonatal intensive care
- Knowledge translation in nursing
- Implementation of evidence-informed practices in perinatal health
- Health policy decision-making in perinatal health
- Cultural diversities in perinatal health behaviours