Heidi Coombs-Thorne

Medical Education Scholarship Centre (MESC)

Research Associate

Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society

Vice President

Lead researcher on

Medical Efforts on the Homefront: Tuberculosis among the Troops in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1914-20 May 2017 - Apr 2018

"A Shared Responsibility"? Charles Karnopp and the Grenfell Mission's Misappropriation of Funds Scandal of 1912 Oct 2014 - Nov 2015

"I could not bear to be a Slacker": Sybil Johnson, volunteer aid detachment nurse during the First World War May 2014

Physiologic Storyboarding for Scenario Development in High-Fidelity Simulation Jan 2014

“Doctor, let me know three or four days before the Doctor comes so I will bee at home”: Grenfell Mission Medical Services and Southern Inuit Agency, 1892-1981 Sep 2012

Connect - Accept - Recognize - Empower: The Integration of Immigrants into the Newfoundland and Labrador Workforce Jan 2007

"Mrs. Tilley had a Very Hasty Wedding!": The Class-Based Response to Marriages in the Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador Sep 2004

Interjurisdictional Knowledge Transfer in Occupational Safety and Health: Lessons from Eastern Canada Jan 2003 - Mar 2009

Active Research Interests

The Relationship Between the Southern Inuit and the Grenfell Mission in the Twentieth-Century

History of the Grenfell Mission and American Philanthropy before 1914

Tuberculosis Among the Troops during the First World War

Nursing with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador during the Second World War

Sybil Johnson, Volunteer Aid Detachment Nurse during the First World War

Past Research Interests

Nursing with the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1939-81

The Professionalization of Nursing and the Creation of the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland, 1954

History of the Grenfell Mission's King George V Seamen's Institute in St. John's, 1912

Expertise

Newfoundland history

History of the Grenfell Mission

Nursing History

Newfoundland Women's History

Twentieth-Century History

Medical Education