After completing a Master in Nursing and a PhD in Biomedical sciences (clinical research) at the University of Montreal, she obtained, in 2001, a tenure track position as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Nursing of the same university. In 2003, she began a Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University under the supervision of Drs Celeste Johnston and Manon Choinière, which she completed in 2006. She is an active researcher at the Research Centre of the CHU Ste-Justine’s (pediatric hospital) in Montreal, Canada since 2005 and also Director for the development of nursing research since 2013. She was promoted to Full professor at the University of Montreal in 2013.