Sean Clarke, PhD
Co-Investigator, University of Toronto
Dr. Sean Clarke is the inaugural holder of the RBC Chair in Cardiovascular Nursing Research at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network in Toronto. Dr. Clarke’s research deals primarily with organizational aspects of acute care nursing (with a particular emphasis on staffing levels, work environment factors, patient outcomes and nurse occupational health) and nurse workforce issues. Before his move to Toronto in 2008, he served as the Associate Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he also held an endowed term chair recognizing contributions to undergraduate education at the School of Nursing. He has authored or co-authored 80 articles, 15 book chapters and co-edited a volume on medication safety for nurses. A co-investigator on over $10 million dollars in funded grants, many of which have involved international collaborations, he has been a principal investigator on projects supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals and is currently Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research (CJNR) and a Deputy Editor for the leading health services research journal Medical Care. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, he holds adjunct appointments at the Université de Montréal and the University of Pennsylvania, and visiting appointments at University College Dublin and the University of Hong Kong. In the fall of 2010, he became Deputy Director for the University of Toronto site of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.