Elizabeth Papathanassoglou

Dr Papathanassoglou joined the University of Alberta in 2015. She has been academic faculty member since 1999, and has extensive teaching experience in undergraduate/ graduate education.

Her research interests combine basic science with the nursing management of acutely ill patients. She explores the effects of non-pharmacological, integrative interventions and stress responses in critical care. She studies the role of stress, stress neuropeptides and apoptosis in the pathophysiology of critical illness and multiple organ dysfunction, and the impact on non-pharmacological and integrative approaches on critically ill patients’ outcomes, including inflammation, pain and delirium. Additionally, she explores issues of inter-professional collaboration, nursing autonomy and clinical decision-making, as well as patients’ rights and ethical aspects of critical care. Another strong area of interest focuses on the phenomenological investigation of the lived experience of patients and nurses in intensive care. She employs a wide range of research methods, including physiological/ laboratory, quantitative and qualitative research