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Faculty Member, Nursing

Professor, University Research Chair, Director and Associate Dean

School of Nursing, University of Ottawa

About

Dave Holmes is Professor, University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing, Director and Associate Dean, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences. After completing his BSc (Ottawa, 1991), MSc (Montreal, 1998) and PhD (Montreal, 2002) in Nursing, Professor Holmes completed a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship in Health Care, Technology and Place at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work (2003). To date, Pr Holmes received funding, as principal investigator, from CIHR and SSHRC, to conduct his research program on risk management in the fields of Public Health and Forensic Nursing. Most of his work, comments, essays, analyses and research are based on the poststructuralist works of Deleuze & Guattari and Michel Foucault. His works have been published in top-tier journals in nursing, criminology, sociology and medicine. Professor Holmes has published over 105 articles in peer reviewed journals and 25 book chapters. He is co-editor of Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Health Care (Surrey, Ashgate – April 2009), Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Care (Surrey, Ashgate – January 2010), and editor of (Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach (Surrey, Ashgate – Forthcoming 2011). He has presented at numerous national and international conferences. He was appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.