Professor Lewis is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa. She is also an affiliate researcher at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and in the Methodological and Implementation Research Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute as co-scientific director of the Patient Decision Aids Research Group and member of the Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network.
In 2018, she completed her PhD in at uOttawa, supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship Award, and in 2019, she was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for outstanding dissertation in medicine, health sciences and interdisciplinary studies. In 2024, she was named Researcher of the Year – Early Career in the Faculty of Health Sciences at uOttawa.
Professor Lewis currently holds a New Investigator Award from the Heart & Stroke Foundation (2024–2027) to conduct research on engaging patients in decisions about their brain-heart health. She has been awarded funding from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, CANet, the Heart & Stroke Foundation, Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund via the Brain-Heart Interconnectome.
Most recently, she has taken on the lead role in the Co-production and Knowledge Mobilization stream of the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (uOttawa/University of Ottawa Heart Institute).
Her experience in clinical nursing practice includes various cardiovascular settings in acute and ambulatory care. Professor Lewis has maintained Canadian Nurses Association certification in cardiovascular nursing since 2010.
Professor Lewis is accepting new students for thesis supervision.