I am a  Full Professor at the University of Ottawa, School of Nursing (Ottawa, Canada) and also Researcher at Institut National de Psychiatrie Légale Philippe-Pinel (Montréal, Canada). After completing my B.Sc. (Ottawa, 1991), M.Sc. (Montreal, 1998) and Ph.D. (Montreal, 2002) in Nursing, I have completed a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship in Health Care, Technology and Place at the University of Toronto (2003). To date, I have received over 13.5M of research funding from various research funding bodies including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Most of my works, comments, essays, analyses and empirical research are based on the poststructuralist works of Deleuze & Guattari and Michel Foucault. My works have been published in top-tier journals in nursing, criminology, sociology and medicine. To this day, I have published over 220 articles in peer reviewed journals and over 55 book chapters. I am co-editor of Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Health Care (Routledge, 2009), Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Care (Routledge, 2010), (Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach (Routledge, 2011), Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus (Routledge, 2014), Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines (Routledge, 2017), and Philosophies et sciences infirmières: contributions essentielles à la discipline (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024). I am also Founding Editor-in-Chief of APORIA – The Nursing Journal (2011-2021) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Parrhèsia – Recherches critiques en sante mentale et justice/Parrhèsia – Critical Research in Mental Health and Law (2025-2029). I have presented at numerous national and international conferences and was appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Luxembourg, the United States and the United Kingdom. I am a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (2019) and the Canadian Academy of Nursing (2021). Since December 2020, I have been recognized as one of the top 2% most cited researchers (since 1965) in the world by Stanford University.