Maureen Markle-Reid

Maureen Francis Markle-Reid is a Canadian nurse. As a Full professor in the McMaster School of Nursing and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, she oversaw numerous efforts to improve the quality of life for seniors moving from hospitals to home.

Early life and education
Markle-Reid completed her Bachelor of Nursing degree at McMaster University while also working as a lifeguard and swimming instructor at the university pool. She then completed her Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Toronto and her PhD at McMaster University.

Career
Following her Bachelor of Science in nursing, Markle-Reid worked as a staff nurse in Cardiac Care and Intensive Care at St. Joseph's Health Centre and Cardiac Care at Toronto Western Hospital. After completing her master's degree and PhD, she secured a five-year Ontario Career Scientist award. With her award, she led an initiative entitled "Interprofessional Stroke Rehabilitation For Stroke Survivors Using Home Care." Markle-Reid then transitioned into a career researcher role and became an assistant professor in McMaster School of Nursing in 2000. In 2013, she co-founded the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit (ACHRU) with Jenny Ploeg and served as its Co-Scientific Director. They received funding in 2014 to develop a web-based app called My Stroke Team (MyST) which will enable home care workers to share information. At the same time, Markle-Reid was appointed a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair to fund her research into chronic diseases in community living older adults and their family caregivers. In this role, she co-led a research study to design and test a six months hospital-to-home transitional care program for older patients with multiple chronic conditions and possibly symptoms of depression. In 2014, she became a Distinguished Fellow and adjunct professor at Mohawk College.

In 2017, Markle Reid's Canada Research Chair was renewed for another five years. Two years later, she co-founded the McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging with Parminder Raina to address the needs of Ontario's older adults. In 2021, Markle Reid was inducted as a Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow for her efforts into developing, implementing, evaluating and scaling-up integrated, patient-oriented interventions to improve care and outcomes for older adults with multimorbidity and their caregivers.

Personal life
Markle-Reid and her husband David have two sons together.