Brendan George McCormack | |
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Born | Streamstown, Co Westmeath | 11 August 1962
Nationality | Irish |
Known for | Research in Nursing and Person-centred Care |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Buckinghamshire New University University of Surrey University of Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Nursing |
Institutions | Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery,Faculty of Medicine and Health,The University of Sydney |
Brendan George McCormack (born 11 August 1962) is an Irish nursing academic. [1] He is the Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery &Dean,Faculty of Medicine and Health,The University of Sydney. [2]
His research focuses on person-centredness with a particular focus on the development of person-centred cultures,practices and processes. [3]
He holds a BSc in nursing from Buckinghamshire New University,a Post Graduate Certificate in the Education of Adults from the University of Surrey and a DPhil in Educational Studies from the University of Oxford. [4]
McCormack started out his career as a psychiatric staff nurse in St Loman's Hospital,Mullingar Ireland. [5] Following becoming a Registered General Nurse,McCormack moved to the Royal Berkshire Hospital,Reading,England where he worked as a staff nurse in Trauma Orthopaedics and General Medicine,before moving to Battle Hospital,Reading,England and working as a staff nurse in Urology. [6]
McCormack became the Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery &Dean,Faculty of Medicine and Health,The University of Sydney in May 2022. [7]
Prior to this,McCormack was the Professor of Nursing and Head of the Divisions of Nursing,Paramedic Science,Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies,School of Health Sciences,Queen Margaret University,Edinburgh (2014-2022). [8] [9]
McCormack is currently Academic Chair of the CARE Program (Championing Australia’s Relational Economy) at the Sydney Policy Lab,University of Sydney. [10] The program adopts a community-led and multidisciplinary approach to embedding person-centred principles,values,and practices in Australian public policy. [11]
He serves as Specialty Chief Editor of the Frontiers in Health Services section on patient-centred health systems,which advances research in implementation science,workforce development,and safety from a person-centred perspective. [12] He is also engaged in the CAPAN (Capacity Building in Nursing) program in Denmark,a partnership with the University of Southern Denmark and Zealand University Hospital,which aims to strengthen research and development cultures in nursing and to support the transition of hospitals towards university-based health systems. [13]
McCormack’s research focuses on person-centredness with a particular focus on the development of person-centred cultures,practices and processes. [14] McCormack has specific expertise in gerontology and dementia practices. However,McCormack's work extends through all specialities and is multi-professional. McCormack is methodologically diverse,but has a particular fondness for participatory/action research. Additionally,McCormack brings expertise and enthusiasm to the use of arts and creativity in healthcare research and development. [9]
McCormack has over 520 publications on Google Scholar [15] which have been cited over 25,500 times giving him an h-index of 65. His top five highest cited articles are: