Associate Professor
Christina Parker

Biography

Associate Professor Parker is a passionate mid-career academic with a wealth of clinical skills in hospital, aged and community settings, having been a Registered Nurse for twenty-eight years, including fifteen years working clinically across hospital and community settings.  In practice she has developed advanced clinical skills in community, primary and public health care; knowledge and skills in relation to ageing, acute and chronic medical conditions.  As a mid-career researcher, she leads a wound healing research team at Queensland University of Technology, has excellent organisational and team management skills while working well with health providers and consumers.  She also works effectively with industry incorporating them into wound care project grants and being invited by industry to speak at an international wound care conference dinner. She has contributed to four book chapters, published 22 peer-reviewed (9 as first author) mostly wound related articles and presented 26 oral or poster wound related conference presentations (4 internationally and 22 nationally), including four as invited speaker.