Donor Story:
The Stephen Ross & Mary O'Riordan Family Foundation supports educational and humanitarian initiatives that are informed by compassion and kindness. The Anne O'Riordan Research Initiatives Fund highlights collaboration and engagement with patient mentors with a focus on three areas: the lived experience of persons with a disability; patients as mentors in healthcare education; and/or interprofessional collaboration in healthcare. A person-centred philosophy will be the hallmark of funded research projects, in recognition of the teaching initiatives of Anne O'Riordan during two decades of her occupational therapy career (1996-2017) as a faculty member in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy and the Clinical Educator in the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice at Queen's University.
About the Fund:
Established in June 2018 by The Stephen Ross & Mary O'Riordan Family Foundation to provide a discretionary fund for the Director of the School of Rehabilitation Therapy in support of research initiatives within the School. Annual disbursements can be directed toward research initiatives which include elements of:
(1)The lived experience of disability: research where educators and students, both professional and research, are attempting to understand the lived experience of persons with a disability.
(2)Inclusion of patients as mentors: research that examines the educational benefit of patients as mentors.
(3)Interprofessional collaboration:
a.costs to attend IP learning events for health sciences students; or,
b.research about interprofessional collaboration between nursing, medicine, and rehabilitation therapy students, patients/families and, where possible and appropriate, other disciplines.
