Her career primarily has been in direct practice in the rural setting working in acute care, long term care, and in home care where she presently works on a casual basis. Her research interests include the cardiovascular health and health promotion of rural populations. This overall interest has evolved to exploring the risk factors that children develop as they age, which influence their cardiovascular health in later decades of life. In her Master's research Dr. Bilinski examined physical activity patterns in a group of rural preadolescent children living in Saskatchewan. In her dissertation work she used a mixed methods approach to examine overweight/obesity, physical activity, sedentary behavior, and dietary patterns in a group of preadolescent children. In addition, this study used a focused ethnographic approach to explore the meaning of health in a subgroup of this population.