Kristina Mangonon McGuire, Co-Instructor, Patient Research Partner, KBHN/CanChild/McMaster Family Engagement in Research program/PaCER Graduate
Kristina McGuire is a champion for patient-oriented research and Patient and Family Centered Care. She is the mother to two exceptional children; one child with severe medical complexity and both with neurological and developmental differences.
She is a retired surgical and pediatric nurse, and now is actively involved with the pediatric health community in a non-clinical capacity, sitting on several patient and family advisory councils with Alberta Health Services across the province, including the Maternal Newborn Child and Youth Strategic Clinical Network.
Kristina uses her experience as a former patient, a mother, a family caregiver and a nurse to foster change in healthcare, focusing on patient and family engagement practices, patient-oriented research and the promotion of using lived experience as an expert knowledge source.
Kristina is a graduate of the Family Engagement in Research (FER) Program in partnership with Kids Brain Health Network and CanChild, at McMaster University. She is now a leader in FER as a co-instructor for the pilot program at the University of Calgary.
She is also a graduate of the Patient and Community Engagement Research (PaCER) program within the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, at the University of Calgary.
She is currently developing a Family Engagement in Research Network (FERN) in association with the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and the University of Calgary.
