Christina McMillan Boyles RN, MScN is a Registered Nurse and an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Laurentian University. Concurrent with her MScN degree, she completed a Type II diploma in Health Services and Policy Research. Currently, she is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Health in the School of Rural and Northern Health at Laurentian University.  She is an active member of the Ontario Respiratory Care Society (ORCS). She serves as the ORCS Regional Representative for Northeastern Ontario, and is a member of the ORCS Provincial Committee and the Research and Fellowship Committee. She is also a member of the Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals Association (CRHPA), the Canadian Association of Health Service and Policy Research (CAHSPR), and the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO). She served as a development member for the RNAO Best Practice Guideline (BPG) for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Some of her research interests include chronic disease, COPD, health services, health policy, nursing education, and qualitative research methodologies.