Laurie N. Gottlieb

Who is Laurie N. Gottlieb?

Laurie N. Gottlieb, RN, PhD, is a Professor, School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where she holds the Flora Madeline Shaw Chair of Nursing. She is Editor-in-Chief of CJNR and was recently named Nurse-Scholar-in-Residence at the Jewish General Hospital, a McGill University teaching hospital.

She is the recipient of prestigious awards including the Centennial Award, the first and one-time only award from the Canadian Nurses Association recognizing the 100 most influential nurses in Canada; and, in 2009, the L'Insigne Du Merit, the highest recognition accorded to a nurse from the Order of Nurses of the Province of Quebec, and the Prix du Conseil Interprofessionnel du Québec.

Dr. Gottlieb has further developed, researched, lectured, and published extensively on the McGill Model of Nursing. With her husband, Bruce Gottlieb, PhD, a geneticist, they developed the Developmental/Health Framework, an important elaboration of the McGill Model of Nursing. Her books include: Strengths-Based Nursing Care: Health and Healing for Person and Family, A Perspective on Health, Family, Learning and Collaborative Partnership, A Collaborative Partnership Approach to Care, and Dreams Have No Expiry Date: A Practical Way for Women to Take Charge of their Futures. She has also developed the values and principles underlying Strengths-Based Leadership and Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning. Dr. Gottlieb is currently collecting stories of nursing practice for a book on "exquisite nursing".