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Page 1: LUMNI AWARDS - QUT · Tony was admitted as a Solicitor in 1989 with the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service before being admitted as a Barrister in New South Wales in 2000. In 2015,

Tuesday 7 August

Plaza Ballroom

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

UTSTANDING

LUMNI AWARDS

2018Outstanding Alumni Awards Ceremony

B U I L D I N G L I F E L O N G C O N N E C T I O N S

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QUT has announced Tony McAvoy SC as the 2018 Alumnus of the Year at the Outstanding Alumni Awards Ceremony.

The Outstanding Alumni Awards recognise graduates of QUT and its predecessor institutions for exceptional professional achievement and contributions to the community at a local, state, national and international level.

2018 Alumnus of the Year 2018 Faculty of Law Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

TONY MCAVOY SC1988 Bachelor of Laws, QUT

Tony McAvoy has nearly 30 years’ experience as a legal advocate

for Indigenous Australians, and specialises in native title and

land rights, coronial inquests and administrative, human rights,

discrimination, and criminal law.

Tony was admitted as a Solicitor in 1989 with the Brisbane

Aboriginal Legal Service before being admitted as a Barrister

in New South Wales in 2000. In 2015, he became the first

Indigenous Australian in the country’s history to be appointed

Senior Counsel. He is currently a Barrister at Frederick Jordan

Chambers.

During his career, Tony has held numerous positions concerning

Aboriginal affairs and land rights.

Between 1994 and 2000 he was a Policy Officer and Manager at

the New South Wales Department of Aboriginal Affairs and for a

period between 1996 and 1998 also served as Acting Registrar of

the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act. He has also co-

authored a monograph for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander Studies on Native Title Claim management.

Tony has succeeded with multiple land disputes throughout his

career. Most notably, he appeared for the Quandamooka People

(North Stradbroke Island and Moreton Bay, Queensland) in 2011,

and the Barngarla People (Eyre Peninsula, South Australia) in

2016 for their Native Title Claims. Tony has a substantial pro-bono

practice and speaks regularly at conferences on native title, treaty,

and political representation. In 2005, he created the National

Indigenous Legal Conference with Chris Ronalds SC, and in 2010

was named National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year.

From 2016 to 2017 he has served as co-Senior Counsel assisting

the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of

Children in the Northern Territory. Tony has a passion for seeing

young people succeed, and acts as an informal mentor for many

young practitioners and a formal mentor for a number of young

Aboriginal lawyers and law students.

From 2011 to 2013, Tony held the position of part-time Acting

Commissioner of the New South Wales Land and Environment

Court, and is current Chair of the New South Wales Bar

Association First Nations Committee. He is also a member of the

Indigenous Lawyers Sub-Committee, Co-chair of the Indigenous

Legal Issues Committee, and Chairperson of the National

Indigenous Lawyers Corporation of Australia.

B U I L D I N G L I F E L O N G C O N N E C T I O N S

• TONY MCAVOY SC

2018 Alumnus of the Year

2018 Faculty of Law Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

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QUT recognises the outstanding achievements of graduates who are 35 years of age or younger with the Young Alumnus of the Year award. This year Dr Chris Jeffery receives the award for his on-going high level achievements and service to the community.

2018 QUT Young Alumnus of the Year

DR CHRIS JEFFERY2007 Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Computer Engineering), QUT

2014 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, UQ

2014 Graduate Certificate in Business (executive Leadership), UQ

Current PhD candidate, QUT

Dr Chris Jeffery is an award-winning engineer, army officer, doctor,

and highly successful medical entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Field

Orthopaedics, Executive Director of Robotic Engineering Research

Labs (RER) and Audeara, and is currently completing a PhD at the

Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at QUT.

Chris has served as a Commissioned Officer in the Australian Army

for nearly 11 years, and in 2005 received a Defence University

Sponsorship to complete his engineering studies. In 2007 he

graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and

Computer Engineering) and was awarded the J.H.Curtis award

from Engineering Australia for thesis of the year. Having completed

his studies, Chris continued on to Royal Military College training

at Duntroon.

In 2009, he was deployed to the Middle East. It was during the

second part of his duties while protecting volunteer doctors that

he was inspired to pursue medicine. On returning to Australia,

he went on to complete a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of

Surgery, and Graduate Certificate in Business from the University

of Queensland in 2014.

During his medical intern year, Chris realised the inaccessibility

of hearing tests for children treated in the public hospital system.

Driven to make audiometric testing more available, Chris wrote

a computer program to facilitate the need; a program that now

empowers consumer headphones to deliver better, safer sound

and a program that’s consumer sales are funding ongoing

research and development in the management of hearing

related issues.

Chris’ passion to innovate has led him to develop several

start-ups focused on improving access to medical treatment.

In 2017, he co-founded Field Orthopaedics; this year the company

launched its first product for Orthopaedic Surgeons– a screw

designed to fix precision fractures in wrists. It’s on track for

approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and has

led to Field Orthopaedics being acknowledged as the most cost

effective medical device company in the history of the FDA.

Chris strives to bring the latest research into practice. Field

Orthopaedics was founded as a platform to create innovative

commercial products for medical needs, and returns all profits

to medical research. The company has eleven more products in

development at the moment, including a coated-bone cement

aimed at eliminating the risk of infection during surgery, and

biodegradable polymers to act as a coating for drug delivery.

In addition to his already busy schedule, Chris is currently in the

process of launching YUMM!, a social enterprise that utilises the

brand, advertising and profits of its product sales to address public

health issues and fund community intervention strategies directed

at the improvement of mental wellness.

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2018 QUT Innovation & Entrepreneurship Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

SANDRA MAUSandra is a proud Master of Business Administration alumnus and entrepreneur, with over 10 years’

experience in product research and development in engineering and technology.

Since graduating from QUT in 2010, Sandra has consulted for industry, government, university and research

institutions, and led the way in commercialising the world’s first visual search engine for trademarks as

co-founder and CEO of TrademarkVision. TrademarkVision focuses on protecting brands through machine

learning and artificial intelligence, and is one of the world’s most innovative and influential image recognition &

artificial intelligence companies in the brand protection space. TrademarkVision is trusted by brands, firms and

government intellectual property offices worldwide; Used by IP Australia, the European Intellectual Property

Office, and IP Offices in South America and Asia, governments are now using TrademarkVision to help their

examiners and the public protect their IP faster, quicker and cheaper than before. Since its launch in 2013,

the company has won a number of media accolades including being listed in Fast Company’s Top 10 Most

Innovative Companies in the World for Artificial Intelligence in 2017 – a significant achievement in only five years.

Prior to TrademarkVision, Sandra was a Senior Computer Vision Research Engineer at NICTA and a

Commercialisation Analyst at QUTbluebox, where she helped researchers protect their intellectual property

and commercialise their innovations. She is a recognised thought leader and is frequently invited as a guest

speaker and contributor to working groups.

Sandra is active in supporting the local tech community, generously volunteers her time and expertise to

support QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, and is a mentor for several young entrepreneurs, students, and

women in the industry. She is the founding Chair of IEEE QLD Women in Engineering, has been a speaker at

several Women in Leadership forums, and was recognised as one of Australia’s Top 50 Female Programmers

in 2014, and one of Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Engineers by Engineers Australia in 2015.

2018 Young Innovation & Entrepreneurship Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

GIRL GEEK ACADEMY – SARAH MORAN, LISY KANE, TAMMY BUTOW Sarah Moran, Lisy Kane and Tammy Butow are three of the five co-founders of Girl Geek Academy, a tech

start-up with a mission to teach one million women how to get into the industry and launch their own start-

ups by 2025. Currently, only 12 per cent of those “building the internet” are women, and Girl Geek Academy

is dedicated to levelling the playing field so that future generations will have the same leadership and salary

opportunities as their male counterparts.

After completing a double degree at QUT in 2008, Tammy was selected for the NAB Technology Graduate

program, and started her career as a Software Engineer and Engineering Manager in Melbourne.

During 2014, Tammy moved to New York to work as DigitalOcean’s Platform Manager for Cloud Infrastructure.

A year later, she was approached by Dropbox to lead a hybrid software and systems group at their Silicon Valley

headquarters, and was then promoted to Senior Engineering Manager.

As a female advocate in the tech industry, Tammy has been a guest speaker at Linux Conf Australia in 2016

and GopherCon in 2017. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area working as a Principal Site Reliability

Engineer at Gremlin, and is helping to launch #SheMakesGames workshops in the US this year.

Alongside her fellow Girl Geek Academy co-founders, Sarah Moran is on a mission to create a lifelong

community of women who love to learn tech, having learned to code at just five years old. She is the CEO at

Girl Geek Academy.

In her career to date, Sarah has held many high-profile social media roles such as Global Public Relations and

Social Media Manager for Tourism Queensland’s ‘Best Job in the World’ campaign.

In 2017, Sarah joined the Channel Ten and FOXTEL LifeStyle channel television series, Common Sense, where

she is having her say on what’s happening in the world and showing the nation its cool to be a ‘girl geek’.

Lisy is an award-winning games producer, and her industry insights have seen her curate and produce sell-out

events for Girl Geek Academy, including #SheMakesGames – Australia’s first, all-women game-making day, now

an annual event.

Along with her work at the Girl Geek Academy, Lisy is a producer at League of Geeks, an indie game

development studio based in Melbourne. In 2017 Lisy was the only Australian to be featured in the Forbes 30

under 30: Games list, and received a Women in Games Fellowship from Film Victoria. As a gaming innovator,

she is a highly sought after speaker at many gaming, tech, and STEM education forums. She recently launched

#SheHacksGames – the first all-woman hackathon for video games in Australia.

• SANDRA MAU

2005 Bachelor of Applied Science (Aerospace), University of Toronto

2007 Master of Science (Robotics), Carnegie Mellon University

2010 Master of Business Administration, QUT

• SARAH MORAN

2009 Bachelor of Journalism, QUT

• LISY KANE

2013 Bachelor of Business (Public Relations), QUT

2013 Bachelor of Creative Industries (Interdisciplinary), QUT

• TAMMY BUTOW

2008 Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), QUT

2008 Bachelor of Education (Secondary), QUT

2012 Master of Computer Science, RMIT

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2018 Special Excellence Award for Achievements and Contributions to International Health Security and Humanitarian Aid

AMANDA MCCLELLANDAmanda McClelland has been instrumental in developing higher level training for global health emergencies.

She has received the Australian Red Cross Florence Nightingale Award and the Australian Red Cross

Humanitarian Award twice for her services to public health.

She began her career as a clinical nurse in remote Indigenous communities in Australia before moving

into public and emergency health with organisations such as Oxfam, Concern Worldwide, and the

Australian Red Cross. In places as diverse as South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda, and Banda Aceh,

she has provided frontline support and coordinated emergency relief to help people rebuild after civil and

natural disasters.

Amanda has served as the International Federations of the Red Cross (IFRC) representative on the Global

Outbreak and Alert Response Network, and on the Global Cholera Taskforce, International Coordination

Group, Nutrition Cluster, and the Risk Communication Coordination Taskforce with the World Health

Organisation.

Until recently, she worked as Global Health Advisor with the IFRC in Geneva, and was responsible for

providing technical support to operations in Africa and the Asia Pacific. In 2012, Amanda was deployed

to Sierra Leone as part of the Cholera response, and in 2013 to the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.

With the Ebola outbreak in Africa in 2014, Amanda provided technical support and deployments from

Geneva, and deployed to Kenema to set up an Ebola treatment center. She spent the next eight months

travelling in and out of West Africa to support the Red Cross Ebola response.

Last year, Allen and Unwin published Amanda’s first book, Emergencies Only: An Australian Nurse’s

journey through natural disasters, extreme poverty, civil wars, and general chaos. Most recently, she

has commenced as Senior Vice President for Resolve to Save Lives, a $225 million, five-year initiative to

implement evidence-based strategies to prevent heart disease and stroke, and work with governments to

find, stop, and prevent new disease threats across the globe.

2018 Science and Engineering Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award Winner & Special Excellence Award for Achievements and Contributions to International Cyber Security

BEN DE BONTBased in Seattle, Ben de Bont is considered one of America’s leaders in cybersecurity. With more than 20

years’ experience in the field, he is the current Vice-President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

at IBM Cloud.

Ben sits on the board of a number of high-level corporate and not-for-profit companies dedicated to

securing data. With unique, private sector cybersecurity expertise, Ben donates time to the United States

Government to aid and protect critical infrastructure, armed forces, and citizens against cyberattacks.

Ben has held significant technology leadership roles in a number of leading global companies. He began

his career with Microsoft in 2004, has since led the MySpace Security Group as Director of Information

Security, and worked with securing OpenStack architecture for HP Cloud as Chief Security Officer (CSO).

Now with IBM, Ben has spearheaded cloud security and compliance differentiation strategies for financial,

public sector, healthcare, and enterprise organisations.

Recently, Ben was selected for the 2018 Presidential Leadership Scholars program – a partnership among

former Presidential Centres and a program designed for mid-career leaders who share a commitment

to helping solve society’s greatest challenges. He was chosen as one of 60 scholars to participate in the

prestigious program, which gives access to former presidents and their senior administrative alumni. Ben

graduated from the program in July.

Having consulted on cybersecurity for the US Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard, Ben has

developed an expertise in public sector security. In 2016 he met with and advised President Obama’s

Chief Information Security Officer on the White House’s strategy for cyber security defense, and was later

commissioned to assess other defense-related risks. Ben also volunteers with the American Corporate

Partners mentoring program, which assists veterans with career development, and is currently mentoring

an American Air Force Captain in the GPS directorate.

• BEN DE BONT

2001 Bachelor of Information Technology, QUT

2002 Graduate Diploma in Information Technology, QUT

2004 Master of Information Technology (Cryptography), QUT

• AMANDA MCCLELLAND

1996 Bachelor of Nursing, QUT

2009 Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, JCU

2010 Graduate Diploma in Disaster Management and Refugee Health, JCU

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2018 QUT Business School Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

JEFFREY DUNNJeffrey Dunn is a Principal at AQR Capital Management LLC, a global investment management firm and

one of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, where he is the Head of AQR’s Asia Pacific business.

Since graduating from QUT in 2002, he has quickly risen to become an influential thought leader and

inspirational figure in the investment community.

Over the past twelve years, he has overseen the growth of AQR’s Australian business, including through the

Global Financial Crisis, and has played an integral part in driving AQR’s success to becoming a household

name amongst the Australian institutional investment community. Offshore, Jeff has been instrumental in

AQR’s growth in Asia Pacific and the opening and management of offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Throughout his career, Jeff has continually sought opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

Prior to his role at AQR, Jeff was the Research Manager for the International Equity division at QIC, where

he was able to travel the world performing due diligence on leading investment management firms. This

experience exposed him to a wide variety of investment philosophies, business cultures, management

techniques, and corporate structures. During his time at QIC, Jeff participated in a secondment program to

work with a quantitative strategies group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York.

As AQR’s first employee outside of the head office in the USA, Jeff established AQR’s Australian office

in 2006. He later drove the formation of AQR’s Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Committee

which he remains the global chair. Jeff is also a member of the UN Principles for Responsible Investing

advisory committee on hedge funds. He has authored research pieces on the implication of ESG issues

for investment managers and the tax implications of active global equity investing for Australian investors,

which have been presented at industry and educational forums throughout the Asia Pacific region.

A proud QUT alumnus, in 2017 Jeff joined the QUT Economics and Finance Advisory Committee, where

his passion for good practice and deep industry knowledge is drawn upon to inform strategies at the

discipline school level.

2018 Creative Industries Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

ARCHIE MOOREArchie Moore is renowned as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. His contribution to art and

culture has been acknowledged by curators and directors of major exhibitions and institutions. His artworks

often explore language and other cultural tokens as signifiers that can be confused and misinterpreted.

Shortly after completing a Bachelor of Arts at QUT in 1998, Archie received a visual arts scholarship to study at

the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He has worked with a variety of mediums in his portrayals of the self and

national histories, and experiments with painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and performance. Archie’s

practice remains embedded in Aboriginal politics and the wider concerns of racism and cultural borders.

For almost two decades, Archie has held regular solo exhibitions at universities, not- for-profit and commercial

galleries in most states and territories of Australia, and has presented at shows in China, France, Japan,

the United Kingdom and the United States.

Archie has represented Australia at international exhibitions, such as 20th Biennale of Sydney (2015); Defying

Empire; National Indigenous Triennial – National Gallery of Australia (and touring, 2017- 2018); Mémoires

Vives: Une Histoire de l’Art Aborigène at Le musée d’Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France, and Lie of the Land:

New Australian Landscape at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. His work has featured prominently

and repeatedly in journals both in Australia and internationally including the prestigious, London-based Frieze

magazine and the New York-based Art Forum.

From August 2018, visitors to the T1 terminal of Sydney International Airport will be greeted by his work,

United Neytions – a major installation of 28 large flags which represent 28 Aboriginal nations ‘imagined’ in

one of the earliest acknowledgments by a white person of Aboriginal nationhood based on language groups.

United Neytions was commissioned as the inaugural partnership between Sydney Airport and the Museum of

Contemporary Art Australia.

• PATREA WALTON PSM

1978 Diploma of Teaching Secondary (Commerce), KGCAE (QUT predecessor institution)

1985 Bachelor of Education, Darling Downs Institution of Advanced Education

• JEFFREY DUNN

2002 Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance), QUT

2002 Bachelor of Applied Science (Mathematical Sciences), QUT

• ARCHIE MOORE

1991 Certificate in Art and Design, Gateway TAFE

1998 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), QUT

Page 7: LUMNI AWARDS - QUT · Tony was admitted as a Solicitor in 1989 with the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service before being admitted as a Barrister in New South Wales in 2000. In 2015,

Archie Moore is renowned as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. His contribution to art and

culture has been acknowledged by curators and directors of major exhibitions and institutions. His artworks

often explore language and other cultural tokens as signifiers that can be confused and misinterpreted.

Shortly after completing a Bachelor of Arts at QUT in 1998, Archie received a visual arts scholarship to study at

the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He has worked with a variety of mediums in his portrayals of the self and

national histories, and experiments with painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and performance. Archie’s

practice remains embedded in Aboriginal politics and the wider concerns of racism and cultural borders.

For almost two decades, Archie has held regular solo exhibitions at universities, not- for-profit and commercial

galleries in most states and territories of Australia, and has presented at shows in China, France, Japan,

the United Kingdom and the United States.

Archie has represented Australia at international exhibitions, such as 20th Biennale of Sydney (2015); Defying

Empire; National Indigenous Triennial – National Gallery of Australia (and touring, 2017- 2018); Mémoires

Vives: Une Histoire de l’Art Aborigène at Le musée d’Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France, and Lie of the Land:

New Australian Landscape at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. His work has featured prominently

and repeatedly in journals both in Australia and internationally including the prestigious, London-based Frieze

magazine and the New York-based Art Forum.

From August 2018, visitors to the T1 terminal of Sydney International Airport will be greeted by his work,

United Neytions – a major installation of 28 large flags which represent 28 Aboriginal nations ‘imagined’ in

one of the earliest acknowledgments by a white person of Aboriginal nationhood based on language groups.

United Neytions was commissioned as the inaugural partnership between Sydney Airport and the Museum of

Contemporary Art Australia.

• PATREA WALTON PSM

1978 Diploma of Teaching Secondary (Commerce), KGCAE (QUT predecessor institution)

1985 Bachelor of Education, Darling Downs Institution of Advanced Education

2018 Faculty of Education Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

PATREA WALTON PSM

Patrea Walton is renowned for her contribution to public education, with 40 years’ experience working for

the Queensland Department of Education in teaching and leadership roles.

For the first 20 years of her career, Patrea took on a variety of teaching roles across South East Queensland

state schools. In 2001, she moved out of the classroom to take on the role of Principal at Glenala State

High School, and later served as Principal at Corinda State High School.

Patrea has also held many executive roles with the Queensland Department of Education, from directly

supervising and coaching principals to leading implementation of Flying Start reforms (which transitioned Year 7

to secondary school). In 2013, she became CEO of the former Queensland Studies Authority, and subsequently

was appointed Deputy Director-General for State Schools at the Queensland Department of Education, a role in

which she is responsible for the operations and strategic direction of the 1,240 state schools in Queensland, and

their 80,000 staff and 550,000 students. One of Patrea’s most notable achievements during this time has been

her leadership of the statewide effort to close the gap on Year 12 attainment.

In recognition of her outstanding public service to education, in 2017 Patrea was awarded the Australian

Public Service Medal. She is a passionate advocate for advancing Queensland education standards,

and led an improvement agenda that saw Queensland become a fast improving education jurisdiction in

Australia with regards to national testing. Beyond improving student learning outcomes, Patrea is a strong

advocate for equity and social justice in education.

During her career, Patrea has influenced many of the major reforms and education policies in Queensland

education, including an independent review and action plan to enhance the delivery of education for students

with disabilities, and state-wide targeted efforts to reduce the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous

students in attaining Year 12. Her commitment to supporting diversity in schools and the workplace saw her

awarded the 2016 Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) National CEO Diversity Champion.

Patrea is also involved in the induction, support, and mentoring of graduate teachers in Queensland state

schools with the Queensland government’s Mentoring Beginning Teachers program.

2018 Faculty of Health Outstanding Alumni Award Winner

VERONICA CASEYVeronica has held many diverse roles during her 40 years as a Registered Nurse and Midwife. For more

than 20 years she has held executive leadership roles with Queensland Health and since 2004 has been an

Adjunct Associate Professor at the QUT School of Nursing.

She began her career as a registered nurse in 1980 and later as a registered midwife in 1982. On completing her

Diploma of Applied Science in Nursing Management at QUT, she moved on to Australian Catholic University to

complete a Bachelor and Post Graduate Diploma in Nursing, and a Master of Nursing Leadership.

From 2002 until 2006, she was the Director of Nursing and Executive Director of the Aged and Disability

Residential Acute Geriatrics and Rehabilitation Programs at The Prince Charles Hospital and Health Service

District, before moving to the Princess Alexandra Hospital as Nursing Director for the Division of Medicine.

In 2007 she was appointed Executive Director of Nursing Services at Princess Alexandra Hospital, and in

2008 Nursing and Midwifery Services at Metro South District.

Now the Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery at Metro South Health, a role that also incorporates

her post at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Veronica has led substantial growth and development at the

hospital, including service expansion, work culture improvement, and the transformation of the Princess

Alexandra Hospital to Australia’s first, large-scale digital hospital. Veronica is a strong advocate for providing

a person-centred approach to healthcare and played an integral role in Metro South Health becoming the

first health service in Australia to be formally recognised by Planetree as a person-centred organisation.

Veronica and her team led the way in achieving this international recognition for the health service.

Under her leadership, in 2014 the Princess Alexandra became the first hospital outside of the United States to

achieve Magnet status for the third time – an award given by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Centre that

recognises the strength and quality of nursing. At the time, fewer than 100 hospitals worldwide had achieved this.

Veronica has also developed strong relationships within the tertiary sector and is an advocate for the

Visiting Nursing Scholar Program and is committed to supporting clinical placements and graduate

opportunities. An exceptional leader and active contributor to nursing policy, Veronica has received

international recognition as an advocate for the nursing profession.

• VERONICA CASEY

1987 Diploma of Applied Science – Nursing Management, QUT

1992 Bachelor of Nursing, ACU

1996 Post Graduate Diploma Nursing, ACU

1999 Master of Nursing Leadership, ACU

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