Kelli Stajduhar

Dr. Kelli Stajduhar is an internationally recognized leader in the field of palliative care. Building on deep expertise from her background as a nurse and clinician scientist before taking up an academic position at the University of Victoria, Dr. Stajduhar has generated an extensive world-class network of scholarship and translational research aimed at system‐level approaches to how we think about, plan for, and deliver services in anticipation of and at the end of life. Dr. Stajduhar works across interdisciplinary academic and healthcare delivery system levels, and also with governments, non‐profit organizations and community advocates to envision, develop, test and integrate better ways of delivering care to people who are dying, their family caregivers, and those who are rendered vulnerable on the basis of the intersection of structural inequities (e.g., poverty, homelessness) and marginalizing experiences such as mental illness and substance use disorders. 

Dr. Stajduhar is the recipient of numerous awards including the Award of Excellence for Nursing Research from the College of Registered Nurses of BC and the Canadian Association of University School of Nursing and Academic of the Year from the Confederation of University Faculty Associations. In 2022 Dr. Stajduhar was the recipient of the Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and is currently the 2023/2024 Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Canadian Academy of Nursing and is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Palliative Approaches to Care in Aging and Community Health.