Brendan Mccormack DPhil (Oxon), BSc (Hons), FRCN, FEANS, FRCSI, PGCEA, RMN, RGN, FAAN, MAE

Professor Brendan McCormack is a Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery (inc. Sydney Nursing School) and the Dean Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Brendan’s research focuses on person-centredness with a particular focus on the development of person-centered cultures, practices, and processes. He has engaged in this work at all levels from theory development to implementation science and through to instrument design, testing, and evaluation. He is methodologically diverse but is most at home in participatory/action research.

Whilst he has particular expertise in gerontology and dementia practices, his work has spanned all specialties and is multi-professional. He also has a particular focus on the use of arts and creativity in healthcare research and development. Brendan has more than 600 published outputs, including 240 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and 12 books. He was the founding editor of “The International Journal of Older People Nursing” and is currently ‘Editor Emeritus’ of the journal.

Brendan is a Fellow of The European Academy of Nursing Science, a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In 2014 he was awarded the ‘International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame’ by Sigma Theta Tau International and listed in the Thomson Reuters 3000 most influential researchers globally. In 2015 he was recognized as an ‘Inspirational Nursing Leader’ by Nursing Times (UK nursing magazine) and in 2019 was listed in the New Year ‘Top 100 outstanding nurses’ by the Twitter Group #wenurses. Most recently, Brendan was featured in the Wiley Publishers ‘Inspiring Minds’ short films series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13c5C-tbcT4In 2022 Brendan was selected as a member of The Academia Europaea.