Joyce Nyhof-Young

Dr. Nyhof-Young is a social scientist with a Ph.D. in Curriculum Teaching and Learning from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in the University of Toronto.  Between 1999 and 2011, Dr. Nyhof-Young was a research scientist in the Survivorship Program at Princess Margaret Hospital and faculty member in the Department of Radiation Oncology.  Her research with PMH focuses on program development and evaluation in cancer patient education and survivorship, as well as health professional education.  It aims to help patients and healthcare providers achieve the best possible patient support and treatment outcomes.  Dr. Nyhof-Young is currently an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, a Research Coordinator at the Wightman Berris Academy for the second year Determinants of Community Health (DOCH2) course for undergraduate medical students, and a Curriculum Evaluation Coordinator in the undergraduate medical program at the University of Toronto.  She is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Fashion, Ryerson University.  Her collaboration with Sandra Tullio-Pow involves patient-centred research into functional and inclusive clothing design, specifically designing clothing that meets the needs of female breast cancer survivors dealing with mastectomies and lymphedema, and the medical and therapeutic use of clothing to improve psycho-social health and quality of life.  Work with David Brame uses comic books to promote self-examination for testicular cancer among young men.  Dr. Nyhof-Young is also cross appointed to the Institute of Medical Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at OISE/UT.