Rob Fraser is a registered nurse, author, and digital tool strategist. He works full-time on research translation and knowledge mobilization as an order set developer for Patient Order Sets and maintains his clinical practice as a nurse at Toronto General Hospital on a general internal medicine unit.
While completing his Master’s of Nursing degree, Rob published his first book The Nurse’s Social Media Advantage, which won an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award. He was also selected to join the Canadian Nurse’s Association’s inaugural Expert Commission on the future of healthcare, which published its report, A Call To Action, in June 2012. Before completing his undergraduate in nursing he created Nursing Ideas, a website for sharing nursing knowledge by connecting nursing students with leaders, researchers, and innovators in healthcare.
Rob is a board member for VON Canada, and Chair of Emerging Health Leaders. He has also volunteered on local and international community development projects in Trinidad and Tobago, India, and Cambodia. Rob’s passion is working on projects focused on improving the utilization of digital tools to engage providers and patients in improving health and healthcare.