Keynote speakers
We are delighted to welcome internationally recognised leading speakers:
Professor Mary Chiarella, RN RM, PhD LLB UNSWDipNEd(Dist), FCN FRCNA, Professor of Nursing, Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, Australia
 Mary’s career spans 40 years both in the United Kingdom and Australia across a variety of nursing services. Mary is Professor of Nursing at the University of Sydney. In 2003/04 she was the Chief Nursing Officer, NSW Health Department and prior to that was the Foundation Professor of Nursing in Corrections Health, with the University of Technology, Sydney. In the past she was a Director at the NSW College of Nursing from 1990-1997 and has also served as a Board member and Junior Vice-President to the NSWCN Board.
Mary has provided her professional expertise to health services, organisations and governments over the years. Examples include a review of professional practice and boundary issues for Justice Health, and membership of the NSW Law Reform Commission Division Working Group on minor’s consent to medical treatment. In relation to her health law and ethics work, she was a founding member of the Australian Bioethics Association and the Australian Institute for Health, Law and Ethics, was Chair of the Advanced Care Planning Committee for NSW Health and is currently a member of the Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel for NSW Health. In relation to her regulatory work, she has served on Nursing Tribunals, Professional Standards Committees and Impaired Nurses Panels, she has been a member of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Board, Chair of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council from 2007-2009; and is currently the NSW nominee on the Nurses and Midwives Board of Australia (NMBA); and Chair of the Policy Working Group of NMBA. In relation to her safety and quality work, she was a Ministerial appointment to the NSW Quality Council, a Board member of the NSW Institute for Clinical Excellence and a former co-chair of the Clinical Council for the Clinical Excellence Commission. She also currently serves as one of the Federal Minister for Health’s three independent members on the Board of Health Workforce Australia.
Mary’s particular research interests focus on legal, policy and ethical issues in nursing and health care delivery. She publishes and speaks nationally and internationally on her work. Examples of her research include an international review of nursing regulation; an examination of the legal and professional status of nurses; reviews and analyses of disciplinary decisions of professional Tribunals; and an international review of policy in end-of-life care. Recent research includes a state-wide review of advanced practice roles for the Nursing and Midwifery Office of the NSW Health Department; a second review of the disciplinary decisions of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Board; a review of the implementation of nurse practitioners in South Australia and an evaluation of the continuing competence framework for the New Zealand Nursing Council. She has undertaken a number of projects for the WHO, including a global review of nurse-led models of primary health care; a review of policy and leadership in primary health care and policy development related to MDG 5. She has just completed two state-wide projects: a second review of nursing care models in haemodialysis and a practice improvement project on the perioperative nursing workforce. Her current ARC funded research is a comparative analysis of health professional complaints processes between the new national regulation scheme and the NSW scheme.
Professor Hugh McKenna, CBE, Hon Col, PhD, BSc(Hons), RMN, RGN, RNT, DipN(Lond), AdvDipEd, FFN RCSI, FEANS, FRCN, FAAN, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK
Research assessment exercises in higher education: laurels for the hardy
 Professor Hugh McKenna has over 200 publications including 10 books and over £2.5 million in grants. He has supervised 15 PhD students to successful completion. He is an editor of ‘international journal of nursing studies’ and has many prestigious awards for his work including Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN), Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing (FEAN) and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, (FRCSI).
In 2008 he was awarded a CBE for his work on health and community. The same year he was Chair of the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise which made decisions on the allocation of several millions of pounds in research funding. He is currently chairing the UK REF Panel for Nursing, Allied Health professions, Pharmacy and Dentistry, the Hong Kong Accreditation Panel for Health Sciences and the Swedish Health Sciences Research Council. He sits on national/international committees for three charities, four research funding bodies and five editorial boards. In 2009 he obtained the University’s Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) – only the third nurse in Europe to be given this honour. He chairs the mental health monitoring group which reports directly to the Minister of Health.
Research Expertise:
Workforce Planning
Suicide
Research Methodology
Evidence-based Practice
Nursing Theory
Current Projects:
Identification of Research Priorities for Therapy professions
Evaluation of the development and impact of Assistant Practitioners supporting the·ork of ward-based registered nurses in Acute NHS (Hospital) Trusts in England
A preliminary study of users,’ carers’ and experiences of professionals’ treatment and care for heroin dependency
Editorial Activities:
Editor: International Journal of Nursing Studies
Guest Editor - Journal of Nursing Research Vol 11 Issue No 4. 2006
Editorial Boards:
The Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Journal of Nursing Research
Founding Board Member, Clinical Audit, New Zealand
Nursing Research and Practice
Journal of Nursing Research
International Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing.
Membership of Committees/Bodies:
Chair of UK Government’s Research Excellence Framework
QS Academic Peer for Asian University rankings
Member of Northern Ireland’s Translational Research Group
Chair of the Scottish Quality Review Panel for Core Funded Unit
External Assessor of Quality Status for Chinese University of Hong Kong
Membership of the Northern Ireland Patient and Client Council
Chair of UK Higher Education Funding Council’s Research Assessment Exercise Sub Panel 11
Vice Chair of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Forum
Chair of the Department of Health and Social Services Nursing R&D Committee
Chair of the RCN Research Conference Scientific Committee
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science
Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing
UK member Sigma Theta Tau’s International Advisory Board
Advisor; Advisory Committee for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
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