Marianne Sofronas

RN, PhD

Affiliate Investigator

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa

About:

Marianne Sofronas is a nurse, ethicist, and anthropologist whose expertise bridges clinical practice and research. She completed her PhD in Nursing at McGill University, and a post-doctoral fellowship with the Palliative Care and Nursing Ethics Hub at the Centre for Research on Health and Nursing at the University of Ottawa. Sofronas has practiced for over a decade as a nurse clinician in neurocritical care and in clinical ethics. She is the director of research at the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association. 

Research Interests:

Neuropalliative care and palliative care for populations experiencing vulnerability, serious illness communication, critical care and neuroscience nursing, clinical and organizational ethics, personhood in illness, and nursing work environments.

Select Publications:

Sofronas M, McMillan K. (2025). Compassionate communities: Towards a conceptual framework for psychological safety in nursing. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice.

Sofronas M, Wright DK, Macdonald ME, Bitzas V, Carnevale FA. (2024). “More areas of grey”: Ambiguities in Neuropalliative Care. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.

Sofronas M, Carnevale FA, Macdonald ME, Bitzas V, Wright DK. (2024). “We are not the person we will be when these things happen”: Reflections on Personhood from an Ethnography of Neuropalliative Care. Nursing Inquiry.

Sofronas M, Wright DK. (2021). Neuropalliative Care: An Integrative Review of the Nursing Literature. International Journal of Nursing Research.

Contact:

marianne.sofronas@uottawa.ca