I am an internationally respected trauma nurse and researcher with a special interest in trauma models of care, trauma nursing and financial aspects of trauma systems. I have published extensively in the nursing and medical literature, and have been keynote speaker at several international emergency and trauma conferences.
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I am an internationally respected trauma nurse and researcher with a special interest in trauma models of care, trauma nursing and financial aspects of trauma systems. I have published extensively in the nursing and medical literature, and have been keynote speaker at several international emergency and trauma conferences.

I completed my PhD at the University of NSW in 2006, investigating the role and impact of the trauma case manager. This was the first time the effect this role has on trauma patient outcomes had been investigated and this research has since been used to implement the trauma case management model of care in other Australian Trauma Centres. Other projects have examined the financial cost of the major trauma patient to trauma centres and the impact of a dedicated trauma admitting service on patient outcomes.

I have worked in aged care, general medical/surgical, mental health and after a four-year stint in the Emergency Department at Westmead Hospital, became the Trauma Clinical Nurse Consultant at St George Hospital in 1998. I joined the University of Sydney in 2008, I work regularly as a registered nurse in Wollongong Emergency Department, and I have a passion for Emergency and Trauma Nursing. In 2010 I was appointed as an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health, as well as a Conjoint Associate Professor with the St George Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine at the University of NSW.

I am committed to the development of Emergency Nurses and have had a long relationship with the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA), convening their international conferences in 2003 and 2005, and Scientific Co-Convenor in 2010. I am on the editorial board of the Australasian Emergency Nurses Journal, a reviewer for Injury and the lead editor of the textbook Emergency and Trauma Care, for nurses and paramedics, the first and only Australian text of its kind.

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