Management
Sylvie Lambert
Principal Investigator
Dr Lambert is a Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor in the Ingram School of Nursing at McGill University, and a scientist at St. Mary’s Research Centre. Prior to becoming a researcher, Dr Lambert was an ICU nurse. Her research interests include understanding the impact of a cancer diagnosis on patients’ and their caregivers’ well-being, developing and evaluating self-management interventions, and the use of patient reported outcomes to improve outcome evaluations.
Mona Magalhaes
Program Manager
Mona Magalhaes is the e-IMPAQc Research Program Manager, based at St. Mary’s Research Centre. Ms Magalhaes has an MA in social and cultural anthropology from Concordia University. As a qualitative researcher and project coordinator, she has supported projects related to patient and healthcare staff experiences of care, co-design of quality improvement projects and the development of self-care interventions.
Graduate students
Antoine Przybylak-Brouillard
PhD Candidate
Antoine's PhD research draws on his Medical Anthropology background and aims to study the real adoption of a patient-reported outcome (PROs) app (e-IMPAQc) among oncology health care providers. Through a video-ethnographic approach his project focuses on how cancer care providers integrate innovation into their daily practice to the point of becoming routine. The aim is to understand how external innovations to practice impact patients, especially vulnerable patients, in cancer care.
Lydia Ould Brahim
PhD Candidate
Lydia Ould Brahim is a PhD Candidate in Nursing at McGill University, supervised by Dr Sylvie Lambert and Dr Nancy Feeley. She is a registered nurse (RN) with a BASc in Environmental and Political Science (McGill University) and MSc in Nursing (McGill University). Her research interests lie primarily in the domain of mental health with a focus on caregivers and self-management. Lydia’s current thesis work centers on adapting a self-management depression intervention for people with chronic illness to include their caregivers. As part of the lab, Lydia has had the opportunity to work on many projects supporting those with chronic illnesses and their caregivers, including reviews of mobile applications, adapting an intervention to meet the needs of those with advanced cancer, and literature reviews of caregiver screening programs and the costs of cancer caregiving.
Sydney Wasserman
MSc Candidate
Sydney Wasserman is a registered nurse clinician, pursuing her Master’s degree in Advanced Nursing at McGill University. She works clinically as an Emergency Trauma nurse at the Montreal General Hospital, and has worked as a research assistant at St. Mary’s Research Centre and McGill University since May 2020. Her research primarily focuses on cancer caregiver burden and she has a special interest in mobile health applications and implementation sciences for psychosocial oncology. Sydney is currently working on the data collection and analysis for the Coping Together Advanced project and as the Education Coordinator for the e-IMPAQc project. With Dr. Lambert as her supervisor, she is also undertaking research for her Master’s degree studying the perceived burden of caregivers for people living with cancer.
Research staff
Emma Bainbridge
Project Coordinator
Manon de Raad
Research Coordinator
Helen Alder
Research Assistant
Krisen Jean Julien
Site Coordinator - MUHC
Alysé Filin
Site Coordinator - St. Mary's Hospital
Zein Mallouk
Site Coordinator - St. Mary's Hospital
Théra Kankonde
Site Coordinator - St. Mary's Hospital
Shant Donabedian
Site Coordinator - Lakeshore General Hospital
Taylor Wasserman
Communications