Lise Belanger

CClinical Nurse Specialist Acute Spine Program Lise Belanger has practiced with the interdisciplinary team of the Acute Spine Program since 1981. From 1981 to 1999, Lise fulfilled the role of Clinical Educator. In 1999, Lise began her role as Clinical Nurse Speciality (CNS). In her role as CNS, Lise provides clinical consultation for patients and families receiving care (in the critical and acute care settings) for traumatic spine and/or spinal cord injury, or complex spinal problems such as cancer, arthritis and scoliosis; leadership in defining the needs and resources required for the spine patient population and defining and building systems to support standards of care across the continuum; and education in the area of clinical spine care for patients, families and members of the interdisciplinary team. Lise’s research role focuses on working with the Acute Spine Clinical Research Team to implement clinical research.