Marlene Karam RN, PhD

Marlene Karam, RN, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Montreal University, Quebec, Canada. Marlène completed her bachelor's degree in nursing at the Antonine University in Lebanon and followed a Specialization in Intensive Care and Emergency Medical Aid (SIAMU) at the Higher Institute of Nursing Education in Brussels. Subsequently, she pursued her master's and a doctorate in public health sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). Her thesis topic focused on interprofessional collaboration and continuity of care between emergency services and the first line of care in French-speaking Belgium. In 2019, she joined the V1SAGES team at the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, as a postdoctoral fellow. Her postdoctoral research focused on optimizing the function of care coordination by nurses on the front line of care for patients with complex needs.

Finally, Marlène was an executive assistant at UCL where she taught a wide variety of master's courses and supervised several dissertations on various themes, such as patient safety, clinical pathways, interprofessional collaboration, and continuity of care. In parallel, she was a collaborator and trainer in evidence-informed practice at the Belgian Center for Evidence-Based Medicine.