Fellowship Biography Submission Examples

General guidelines

Total word count for introductory sentence(s) and bio cannot exceed 165 words
Introductory sentence(s) should be kept to 30 words
Credentials are limited to a maximum of four (CNA reserves the right to change the order of recipient’s credentials to ensure consistency)
Biographies should be written in third-person
We reserve the right to edit the text for spelling, grammar and word limits without changing content substantively

Example 1

Introductory sentence(s)

[Name] retired in August 2023 after 31 years with the University of Toronto, where she was a professor with the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing.

Brief biography

[Name] is known for her contributions to the advancement of rural nursing science and the skills and strategies necessary to conduct meaningful rural research. [Name’s] [name of book/resource] is recognized as the first-line resource for understanding rural nursing. Her research has extended understanding of the chronic illness experience of rural dwellers and the health outcomes of persons exposed to a catastrophic environmental event.

[Name] provided leadership for the Council of the College of Nurses of Ontario, the Canadian College of Health Leaders, and professional journals including the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research and Rural and Remote Health.

[Name] received baccalaureate and master of science degrees from the University of Ottawa and a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Nursing.

Example 2

Introductory sentence(s)

[Name's] contributions to science and clinical practice have extended palliative care to a new population — families with a diagnosis of a life-limiting fetal condition.

Brief biography

With a career in maternity settings as a clinician and educator, [Name] recognized the traumatic nature of these diagnoses. She has dedicated her career to development of this model of care, including quality measures specific to perinatal palliative care.

[Name] has been the principal investigator in several interdisciplinary studies. She has examined the perinatal loss experience from the parents' perspectives and has worked to identify barriers to implementation of perinatal palliative care. She was an investigator on the first national survey of perinatal palliative care programs. Countless families have benefited from evidence-based care at a time of great vulnerability and distress.

[Name] completed a BSN from the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing, an MSN from the Western University, and a PhD from the University of Manitoba’s College of Nursing.

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