Judy Bornais has taught at the University of Windsor since 2002 and is currently an Experiential Learning Specialist with the Faculty of Nursing and a Teaching Leadership Chair. She also holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment at Western with the Department of Surgery at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. Previously, Judy was a diabetes educator (C.D.E.) and worked in critical care nursing. She feels that teaching has been at the core of her work in all of these roles. Becoming a classroom educator appealed to Judy as an opportunity to make a broader contribution to health care. Judy passionately communicates to students what a privilege it is to be a nurse and to care for others, to work with families fostering the best possible outcomes. The discipline of nursing draws on a wealth of humanistic and scientific knowledge: students must prepare to apply the knowledge they gain of the science and the art of nursing when caring for patients. To nurture this complex combination of knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes, Judy’s lectures balance evidence-informed research, clinical examples, experiential learning, case studies, student input, and engaged discussion to persuade, inform, and inspire the evolving professionals in her classes.
 
Judy’s research focuses on nursing pedagogy, including the use of standardized patients to improve students’ health assessment skills, the use of peer mentors, the use of simulation technology to reinforce and foster caring in nursing students. She was awarded the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) Excellence in Nursing Education for tenured faculty in 2013 as well as the Council of Ontario Programs in Nursing (COUPN) 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award. Judy was also named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) receiving a 2011-2012 OCUFA Teaching Award. In 2011-2012 she also received Western’s USC Teaching Honour Roll Award of Excellence for her excellence in teaching in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the University of Windsor Faculty of Nursing’s 2012 Research and Scholarship Award and the Inaugural Nursing Society, Faculty of the Year Award 2011. She was also a past recipient of the Elsevier Canada Learning Resource Award and SWOMEN Windsor Advancement of Medical Education Award for her use of teaching technologies and innovative practices to enhance student learning. Judy is committed to helping others develop as teachers: she has presented numerous workshops with the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor including facilitating Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW), and she is also the first nursing faculty member appointed to the University of Windsor, Provost’s Committee on Teaching and Learning.
 
Judy has also presented regionally, nationally and internationally in the area of nursing simulation and teaching and learning. Judy is a previous board member of and remains active with Sigma Theta Tau International Society of Nursing - Tau Upsilon Chapter, and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, and is also a member of the Canadian Diabetes Association Diabetes Educator Sector. She serves on numerous committees locally, provincially and at the national level. She lives in Tecumseh, Ontario with her husband, David, and is the proud mother of three children.
Educational Leadership

Dr. Lara Murphy is a surgically trained foot and ankle specialist who currently works at London Health Sciences Centre where she holds the position of da Vinci Trainer and Simulation Consultant. As the only da Vinci trainer in Canada, Lara provides daVinci® Surgical System skills training to Canadian and international surgeons in a variety of surgical specialties. As Simulation Consultant, Lara provides high fidelity simulation content development and execution to internal and external clients.

Lara has conducted and presented research on a variety of topics. Her research has been presented at The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons annual scientific seminars, American College of Surgeons Accredited Education Institutes Annual Meeting, Institute of Healthcare Improvement National Forum, as well as published in The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery and The Clinics of North America. She has lectured on a variety of topics locally as well as abroad. Lara is currently finishing her doctorate of education at Western University with her focus on Educational Leadership.