Violeta Lopez RN, BSN, MNA, MPET, JBICF, PhD, FACN

Violeta Lopez has extensive clinical experience, as an academic and researcher for the last 45 years. Before joining the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, at the National University of Singapore as the Director of Research, her previous work experiences had been at the National Australian University, Australian Catholic University (Head of School of Nursing from 2005 to 2008), the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Sydney.

She has been invited as a consultant in curriculum development and implementation of evidence-based practice by a number of international institutions. She also has been appointed as Director of the Australian Capital Regional Centre for Evidence-based Nursing and Midwifery (2011-2013) and Director of the Researcher Centre for Nursing and Midwifery: An ICN-Accredited Centre for Nursing Practice: Research and Development (2010-2013).

Her research interests are in transcultural nursing, development, translation, and psychometric evaluation of research instruments, cancer symptom management, caregiving, and psychoeducational interventions. She has obtained over $2 million in research grants and worked closely with the multidisciplinary research team. She has published 120 journal articles, books, and book chapters as well as had been invited as a keynote or plenary speaker at a number of international conferences. She also is a peer reviewer of 18 international medical and nursing refereed journals, an International Editorial Board member of Research in Nursing and Health, European Journal of Health, Journal of Health, Exercise and Recreation, Advances in Nursing, Nursing Practice Today, NursingPlus Open, and Associate Editor of Journal of the European Journal of Oncology Nursing and Journal Transcultural Nursing. She is also a Board member of the World Federation of Critical Care Board and invited panel referee for external research grants for SingHealth Foundations and Health and Medical Research Fund, Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong, and Australian National Health Medical and Research Council.