Jocelyn Rempel
Director
Jocelyn Rempel is the chair in Older Adult Health and associate professor at Mount Royal University. In her role at MRU she is bridging the gap between health and innovation through a variety of initiatives involving students and the broader community. Her initiatives focus on improving care for the growing demographic of aging adults, and she has been successful at piloting simulation educational opportunities for nursing students and connecting generations through an intergenerational speaker series. As an experienced gerontological nurse and business owner, the intersection of her entrepreneurial skills and health background provide her with an understanding of the challenges and opportunities of an aging population that can be addressed through innovation and technology. Her research involves the use of age-tech devices and applications that are providing a more accurate and detailed assessment for functionality and wellness, leading to improved quality of life for aging adults. She is driven by a strong desire to promote better care for older people, and has become a noteworthy leader in her field.
Chair in Older Adult Health, Associate Professor
Faculty of Health, Community and Education
Department of Nursing and Midwifery
Gail Crockford
Affiliate FacultY
Gail gravitated towards the teaching and nursing profession because she was inspired to help people discover their educational and health care goals and then find innovative and individualized ways to meet them. She began her career as a high school science teacher in the U.S. and also taught overseas in Japan. Later, she obtained her Bachelor of Nursing (BN) and worked as a nurse in labour and delivery, home care, health and community services and long-term care. After 10 years of working as a nurse, she started her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and began working as a nursing instructor. Combining both her careers in education and nursing has been very rewarding for her. Working in both the education and nursing fields for 20 years, she still believes there are always areas for growth when we reflect and respond to changes in our community.
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Health, Community and Education
Department of Nursing and Midwifery
Holly Johnson
Affiliate Faculty
Holly is an assistant professor at Mount Royal University who teaches across the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) program. She has a strong focus in healthy aging and community health nursing, having previously worked in the acute care and continuing care sectors as an emergency department (ED) clinician, unit manager and director of care. Holly also serves as a member of the School of Nursing and Midwifery (SoNM) Leadership Committee as the BN coordinator, experiential learning. In this role, Holly is responsible for providing oversight of clinical activities and facilitating laboratory and simulation activities in the Health Simulation Learning Centre (HSLC). Holly has a keen interest in and serves in various leadership and committee roles across the school, faculty and MRU, including the MRU Student Affairs Committee. She maintains close connections with the MRU Catamount Fellowship Program as a faculty mentor.
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Health, Community and Education
Department of Nursing and Midwifery
Jared Fletcher
Affiliate Faculty
Jared’s research and teaching interests include areas of biomechanics, exercise physiology and statistics. He obtained his PhD in Applied Muscle Physiology from the University of Calgary where he studied the relationship between tendon mechanics, muscle energetics and whole-body energy cost of running in distance runners. His externally-funded research program integrates physiology and biomechanics to offer new insights into the energetics and mechanics of human locomotion in health and disease, and it is run almost entirely by Mount Royal University undergraduate student researchers! They examine how changes in tendon properties with exercise, aging, disuse, disease or injury, relate to the metabolic cost at the muscle and whole-body levels. A greater understanding of muscle-tendon function, and the accompanying energy cost, during locomotion has important scientific and clinical implications for human motion and performance.
The overall goal of his research is to understand the mechanical and energetic implications of altered muscle function to exercise (in)tolerance and fatigue across the training spectrum - from clinic to olympic and paralympic.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Health, Community and Education
Department of Health and Physical Education
Terry Clark
Affiliate Faculty
Terry Clark is director of Mount Royal Conservatory at Mount Royal University. Prior to joining MRU, Terry was a research fellow at the Royal College of Music in London, U.K. Terry’s teaching and research interests include performing artists’ health and wellbeing, the role of arts engagement in supporting health and wellbeing across the lifespan and the assessment and development of music performance skills. Terry is also particularly interested in interdisciplinary engagement and experiential learning. Terry has Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in flute performance from Canadian universities and completed his PhD in performance psychology at the Royal College of Music, U.K.
Director
Mount Royal Conservatory