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Patricia McKeever
Dr Patricia McKeever is professor emeritus, L.S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, and an adjunct scientist at Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. From 2007 to 2012, she held the hospital foundation’s Chair in Childhood Disability Studies. Dr McKeever is cross-appointed to the Department of Paediatrics and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. Her areas of expertise include longterm care policies, chronic illness and disability, contemporary social theory and qualitative research methods. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching focuses on disabled children’s sense of embodiment, the experience of organ donation and transplantation and the places where health care is provided.