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Kate Curtis

Kate Curtis RN, PhD

Nursing
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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Dr. Kate Curtis is a Professor of Trauma and Emergency Nursing Sydney Nursing School Clinical Nurse Consultant, Emergency, Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, University of Sydney. Kate has been an emergency and trauma nurse clinician since 1994 and is Professor of Trauma and Emergency Nursing at the University of Sydney, where she leads the Paediatric Critical Injury Research Program.

She is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health and in 2011 was awarded the Frank McDermott Award for research completed and published in the last 10 years judged to have led to the greatest improvements in the care of severely injured patients in Australia and NZ.

Kate’s translational research program continues to focus on improving the way we deliver care to patients and their families and she is the world’s most published author in the field of Trauma and Emergency Nursing. Kate is also on the Editorial Board of the Australasian Journal of Emergency Nursing and a Fellow of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia.
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