We announce with great enthusiasm that Prof Brendan McCormack, our professor at the doctoral study programme Nursing Care and the first full professor in the field of Nursing, elected at the University of Maribor, has been appointed Dean of The University of Sydney Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery. It is an eminent faculty on a global scale - UoS ranks 13th in the world in the latest published QS World University Rankings for the field of nursing.
His internationally recognized research and teaching includes areas of person-centred nursing, gerontology and nursing development research, which has influenced his long-term collaborations with universities in Ireland, the UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and South Africa. He is particularly interested in using art and creativity in development and research in healthcare and nursing. Until 2015, he served as editor-in-chief of The International Journal of Older People Nursing and is still a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Applied Gerontology, International Practice Development Journal, Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, Educational Action Research: an international journal in Journal of Compassionate Care. He is the European Academy of Nursing Science and the Royal College of Nursing award recipient and Sigma Theta Tau International. He has been recognized as one of the 3.000 most influential researchers in nursing worldwide. In 2015, Nursing Times named him "Inspirational Nursing Leader" and a member of many associations, including the American Academy of Nursing. He also lectured at the TEDxUWS event. Professor McCormack is a visiting professor at the University of Maribor, Buskerud University College in Norway, the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Dalhousie University in Canada. He has more than 600 published works, including 180 peer-reviewed publications and 8 books. All papers can be found at eresearch. Before leaving for Australia, he taught and researched at Queen Margaret University (UK).
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