Lisa Keeping-Burke, RN, PhD
St. John’s, NB
Associate Dean, Health Research, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences
University of New Brunswick
St. John’s, NB
CWHHA member since 2018.
Biography
Dr. Keeping-Burke is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Health Research in the Department of Nursing & Health Sciences at UNB Saint John. She holds Bachelor (1987) and Masters (1997) in Nursing degrees from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a PhD (2010) in Nursing from McGill University. With over 30 years of health care experience, Lisa is currently an educator, researcher and mentor to undergraduate and graduate students at UNB. In her program of research, she uses qualitative, quantitative and systematic review methodologies to explore chronic disease management, with a focus on cardiac issues. In 2016, Dr. Keeping-Burke trained as a trainer for the Joanna Briggs Institute Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program out of Australia to help advance the research capacity of her local nursing department. Since 2011, she has been the NB/PEI Provincial Research Director for the Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses (CCCN) and in 2013 became the National Research Director for them.
