Sharon Kaasalainen

Overview

Sharon Kaasalainen began working at McMaster University in 2002, when she joined the School of Nursing as an Assistant Professor. She currently is a Professor and holds the inaugural Gladys Sharpe Chair in Nursing at McMaster University. She is an Associate member of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster and an Honorary Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Kaasalainen’s research primarily focuses on improving pain management, palliative care, end-of-life communication, and quality of life for people living in long term care homes. She is a co-lead of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (SPA-LTC) program which aims to improve the quality of living and dying for residents and their family/friends in LTC.

Affiliations

• Professor
• Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Professor, Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences

Education

• BScN, McMaster University
• MSc, University of Toronto
• PhD, McMaster University