Dr. Manon Ranger is a registered nurse, Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, and Nurse Scientist at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. She conducts cross-disciplinary translational research, integrating pre-clinical with clinical studies in preterm infants undergoing intensive neonatal care to uncover mechanisms of vulnerability to early stress, such as pain, in relation to brain development, while investigating and testing methods to mitigate the adverse effects of these undesirable events.
She also actively participates in global health research and education, with a specific focus on providing training to healthcare providers in low- to middle-income countries (e.g. Nepal) concerning the management of pain and comfort care for critically ill children.
Dr. Ranger’s research program builds and extends upon her clinical nursing background as a paediatric clinical nurse specialist in acute pain, as well as on her remarkable training in nursing, paediatrics and neuroscience.