Marianne Wallis

Biography

"Professor Marianne Wallis is the Associate Dean (Health) and Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine. She is the current Research Portfolio Leader for the School, is a current member and the past Leader of the NURTURE Research Cluster and has a Visiting Research Fellowship with Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service. Prior to arriving at USC Marianne was the Foundation Professor in Clinical Nursing Research at Griffith University and Gold Coast Health Services District. Currently she is a Member of the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee. Marianne is a passionate clinical researcher and has been a Chief Investigator in numerous large projects that have aimed at improving the nursing care of hospitalised patients. Marianne was a Chief Investigator the first NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence focused on Nursing (which is located at Griffith University) and is a member of the Australian Vascular Access Training and Research Group (AVATAR). The main foci of Marianne’s research are nursing interventions in hospitalised patients and health services research. She also has a research track record related to chronic illness management, especially wound management and care of older adult patients especially in the emergency department. (See NURTURE website for more information.) Marianne has written over 130 scientific publications and reviews for six major research funding bodies in Australia and overseas and for more than ten Australian and international peer reviewed journals. Since 2000, Marianne and her colleagues have attracted over $10m in research funds for projects that involved collaboration with a range of industry partners."

Research Interest

Acute care nursing: intravascular access, wounds, pressure injury, chronic illness management: continence, effects of exercise, health services evaluation and knowledge translation