Dr. Julie Easley, PhD

Research Director Horizon Health Network, Department of Medical Education


Email: julie.easley@horizonnb.ca
Phone: 506-452-5702
Mailing Address: 
The Clark Centre for Medical Education
Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital
700 Priestman Street, P.O. Box 9000
Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5N5

 

Education

  • PhD Interdisiplinary Studies
  • Master of Arts
  • Bachelor of Arts

Research Interests

Medical education research; primary health care; physician recruitment and retention; primary care capacity and workforce planning; patient-centred care; patient engagement/empowerment; virtual care; psychosocial oncology; cancer survivorship/follow-up care; social determinants of health.

Selected Grants

Examining experiences and system impacts of publicly funded episodic virtual careCanadian Institutes of Health Research Grant
Co-PIs: Julie Easley; Ted McDonald; Agnes GrudniewiczCo-Is: Nichole Austin; Lindsay K Hedden; Tara Kiran; Lauren Lapointe-Shaw; Emily Marshall; Ruth Martin-Misener; Jennifer Splane
$520,199

Changing primary care capacity in Canada (4C): A cross-provincial mixed methods study to inform workforce planning
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant
Nominated PI: Ruth Lavergne;
Co-PIs: Julie Easley; Ted McDonald; Agnes Grudniewicz; David Rudoler; Antoine Sauvé; Lindsay Hedden
Co-Is: Fiona Bergin; Adrian MacKenzie; Ruth Martin-Misener; Elaine Moody; Helena Piccinini; Hugh Shiplett; Jennifer Hakim; Claire Johnson; Caroline Jose; Jonathan Patrick; Sarah Simkin; Alan Katz; Rita McCracken; Elizabeth Nethery; Ian Scott; Erin Wilson
$1,041,430

To be or not to be a doctor in New Brunswick when having graduated abroad
New Brunswick Health Research Foundation  – 03/2023 – 12/2024
PI: Caroline Jose; Co-I: Julie Easley, Ted McDonald, Jennifer Hakim, Ruth Lavergne, Malik Bereksi, Ludvine Witkowski, Claire Johnson, Abdelalim Hamza
$142,184

A Thousand Papercuts: Understanding and addressing changing administrative workload in primary care in Canada: Protocol for a mixed method study

Research Nova Scotia Grant
PI: Ruth Lavergne; Co-Is: Julie Easley, Maddi McKay, Myles Leslie,  Lindsay Hedden, Fiona Bergin, Joshua Tracey, Ruth Martin-Misener, Melanie Mooney, Agnes Grudniewicz, Erin Palmer, Emily Gard Marshall, Richard Boute, Catherine Moravac
$99,835

A Needs Assessment of Community Resources and Services for People with Cancer and Their Families in New Brunswick
Canadian Cancer Society – New Brunswick Division – 01/2020 – 12/2023
PI: Shelley Doucet Co-I: Julie Easley, Alison Luke
$5,000

Adapting Stratified Follow-up Care Pathways for Breast and Colorectal Cancer Survivors after Completing Primary Treatment: A Mixed Methods Study
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Sub-grant of CIHR Team Grant – 04/2021 – 12/2022
PI: Robin Urquhart; Co-I: Julie Easley, Jackie Bender, Colleen Cuthbert, Doris Howell, Cynthia Kendall, Jonathan Sussman
$27,833

Optimizing Cancer Follow-up Care: A Realist Evaluation
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Sub-grant of CIHR Team Grant – 04/2021 – 12/2022
PI: Jackie Bender; Co-I: Julie Easley, Alejandro Berlin, Sharon McGee, Nikki McKean, Ken Noel, Danielle Rodin, Jonathan Sussman, Robin Urquhart, Geoffrey Wong
$50,784

Selected Publications

Bender, J. L., Scruton, S., Wong, G., Abdelmutti, N., Berlin, A., Easley, J., ... & Urquhart, R. (2024). Virtual follow‐up care among breast and prostate cancer patients during and beyond the COVID‐19 pandemic: Association with distress. Cancer Medicine13(4), e6948.

Schwarz, C., Luke, A., Ashfield, L. R., Easley, J., McIntosh-Lawrence, S., Beaulieu, D., & Doucet, S. (2024). Supportive care services in New Brunswick, Canada: An environmental scan. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal, 34(2): 215-222

Easley, J; Wassersug, R; Mattias, S; Tompson, M; Schneider, N; O’Brien, MA; Vick, B; Fitch, M. (2023) Patient Engagement in Research: Perspectives from Patient Participants. Current Oncology 30(3): 2770-2780.

Piccinini-Vallis H, Zed J, Easley J. (2023) Comparison of patients’ perceptions of family physicians’ patient-centredness between virtual and in-person clinical encounters: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. 12(3):p 517-522, March 2023. DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1511_22

 

 

 

Urquhart, R; Cordoba, W; Bender, J; Cuthbert, C; Easley, J; et al. (2022) Risk Stratification and Cancer Follow-up: Towards More Personalized Post-treatment Care in Canada. Current Oncology 29(5): 3215-3223.

Cole, L; Easley, J; Grightmire, L; Lakshmanan, EM; Matthias, SJ et al. (2022) Every Story is Different: Experiences with Body Changes Related to Cancer. Frontiers in Psychology 13: 1-11.

Easley, J. (2019) Motivations for Cancer History Disclosure Among Young Adult Cancer Survivors. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 13(3), 447-458