Maria Santana

Dr. Maria J. Santana is a health services researcher, an Associate Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Santana has received training in clinical pharmacy (BPharm, MPharm, London School of Pharmacy, UK, Universidad La Laguna, Spain), public health and clinical epidemiology (PhD, University of Alberta, Canada). In 2022, Dr. Santana was appointed Scientific Advisor for the Centre for Person-centred Care at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses in developing novel methods to advance person-centred care and patient-oriented research. She is the director of the Person-centred Care Research Team at the Cumming School of Medicine.