Doris Grinspun

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oris Grinspun is the Executive Director of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), the professional association representing registered nurses in the province of Ontario. RNAO’s mandate is to advocate for healthy public policy and for the role of registered nurses. Grinspun assumed this position in April 1996. From 1990 to 1996, Grinspun served as Director of Nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She has also worked in practice and administrative capacities in Israel and the United States.

A native of Chile, Grinspun has an RN from Hadassah School of Nursing in Jerusalem, Israel; a baccalaureate degree from Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; an MSN in nursing from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and is currently a PhD candidate in the department of sociology at York University in North York, Ontario. Grinspun is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto; an adjunct professor at the School of Nursing, York University; an associate member of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto; an affiliate member of the Centre for Health Studies at York University; and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CERLAC) at York University.

From 1996 to 1999, Grinspun was the Chair of the Acquired Brain Injury Network of Metropolitan Toronto, a network representing all publicly funded agencies. For the past two decades Grinspun has worked extensively on many international projects in Latin and Central America, China and most recently India. Grinspun has published and spoken extensively both in Canada and abroad. She is a forceful advocate of the Canadian health-care system and of the contribution of registered nurses to its success. Her expertise is in areas of health, nursing and workplace policies and practices. Grinspun has received numerous professional and scholarly awards. In 2003, Grinspun was invested with the Order of Ontario. The award was created in 1986 by the Government of Ontario to recognize the highest level of individual excellence and achievement in any field.

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