My program of research focuses on strategies to facilitate seamless patient and family transitions through the cardiovascular continuum of care. Specific research interests include 1) Women's Health; 2) Sex and Gender and Intersection of social determinants of health in care outcomes; 3) Delivery Models of Cardiac Care.
Tracey JF Colella RN, ACNP, PhD is a Research Scientist and Clinician at Toronto Rehab/University Health Network’s Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Program and an Associate Professor in the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Colella completed her Masters of Science in Nursing at the University of Western Ontario with a nursing education focus, and a post-graduate acute care nurse practitioner certificate within cardiac surgery specialization at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from the University of Calgary and her research focused on the investigation of a peer support intervention on recovery outcomes, specifically postoperative depression after cardiac surgery using a randomized controlled trial methodology.
- Associate Professor (Status only), Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
- Faculty Member, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto