Mary Grossman

Mary Grossman PhD was an Assistant Professor at McGill University's Ingram School of Nursing and its affiliated university hospitals. During the1990s, Dr Grossman served in a number of leadership positions. Notably, she held the Chair as Associate Director of Programs and Practice (Undergraduate & Graduate Nursing). In this capacity, she shepherded the revision of the undergraduate Baccalaureate nursing science curriculum and was instrumental in establishing a Committee to develop the First...See more

Mary Grossman PhD was an Assistant Professor at McGill University's Ingram School of Nursing and its affiliated university hospitals. During the1990s, Dr Grossman served in a number of leadership positions. Notably, she held the Chair as Associate Director of Programs and Practice (Undergraduate & Graduate Nursing). In this capacity, she shepherded the revision of the undergraduate Baccalaureate nursing science curriculum and was instrumental in establishing a Committee to develop the First Nurse Practitioner Program at McGill University in intensive care, with the first student cohort starting in Sept 1999. In her capacity as Director of Clinical practice, Dr Grossman promoted academic practice throughout the McGill nursing hospital and community network. Dr Grossman was Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, and also served as Nursing Director (Surgical areas) at McGill University's Royal Victoria Hospital. More recently, as Co director of the Brojde Centre for lung cancer patients (2008-2012), Dr Grossman had the opportunity to integrate two academic pursuits: the development of a conceptual model tailored to the whole person living with cancer and creating a clinical environment conducive to academic practice. Under Dr Grossman's tutelage the Centre moved to integrative cancer care, based on a working model that began to delineate the theoretical scope of whole person care. Student nurses seeking advanced university degrees could test out related concepts of nursing care through their clinical rotations and Master's based clinical research. A more elaborated explicated nursing model serves as the theoretical and scientific predicate for the book on stress, healing and resilience in people with cancer: A Nursing perspective. Since retirement at the end of 2012, Dr Grossman has been invited on several occasions to present her thinking to graduate nursing and final year medical students. Dr Grossman is a published author, invited speaker and has been involved in various clinical research studies throughout her career. See less