Dr. Joan L. Bottorff – Ph.D., RN, FCAN, FCAHS, FAAN
Dr. Joan L. Bottorff
Ph.D., RN, FCAN, FCAHS, FAAN
Dr. Joan L. Bottorff is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Director of the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. Her research focuses on the development of gender-sensitive health promotion approaches focusing on smoking cessation, physical activity and healthy eating. For example, she has developed programs to support men’s smoking cessation (e.g., QuitNow men). In addition, her research has also explored approaches for supporting smoke-free families by focusing on preventing relapse to smoking during the postpartum period, and supporting fathers’ smoking cessation (e.g., Dads in Gear Indigenous). Dr. Bottorff’s program of research, supported by the collaborative work of multidisciplinary teams and the involvement of knowledge users, has also resulted in the development of novel, award winning programs to promote men’s health and new opportunities to reduce the burden of chronic disease. She has received over $20M in research funding, and has over 280 peer-reviewed publications.