Antonia Arnaert, RhD, RN McGill University, Ingram School of Nursing, Canada

Dr. Arnaert obtained her Master’s Degree in Public Health – with a specialization as a Clinical Nurse Specialist - in 1990 at the Centre for Health Services Research and Nursing, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; her Master’s in Public Administration at the European University College Brussels in 1992 and her PhD in Public Health at the Catholic University of Leuven in 2001. Dr. Arnaert is also trained as a Registered Nurse from the School of Nursing St-Jan in Bruges, Belgium. She has held faculty positions at Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and is presently a tenured Associate Professor at the Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University. Her research is focused on the implementation and integration of sustainable eHealth/mHealth solutions to improve quality of care and patient safety. Dr Arnaert is a member of numerous health care professional societies. She has delivered many presentations at scientific meetings and has numerous peer-reviewed publications on the subject in medical and nursing journals.