{"id":17765,"date":"2011-06-13T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/nurse-leaders-conferred-as-adjunct-associate-professors\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:55:03","slug":"nurse-leaders-conferred-as-adjunct-associate-professors","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/nurse-leaders-conferred-as-adjunct-associate-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse leaders conferred as Adjunct Associate Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C092\/11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The School of Nursing and Midwifery recently recognised two outstanding nurse leaders by conferring them with the honour of Adjunct Associate Professor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p>The titles were conferred upon Stephen Carmody, General Manager of Health at Silver Chain, and Maha Rajagopal, Director of Nursing and Patient Support Services at Royal Perth Hospital, at a nursing and midwifery leadership event held on Tuesday 3 May 2011 at Curtin\u2019s Bentley campus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The two prominent Western Australian health leaders were appointed in recognition of their outstanding contribution to health in Western Australia and for their close relationship with Curtin University.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jill Downie, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health Sciences, said the University was delighted that the experienced health professionals had accepted the honorary positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Carmody\u2019s nursing career has been exceptional,\u201d Professor Downie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has has held a number of prominent positions in the health arena including Chief Executive Officer\/Director of Nursing at St John of God Hospital Geraldton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring his time as CEO this hospital was awarded the Australian Private Hospital Association Award for Excellence and a WorkSafe Gold Award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly Maha Rajagopal has held several senior nursing positions including Acting Area Director of Nursing for South Metropolitan Health Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is an outstanding nurse leader who has demonstrated a strong visionary approach, achieving excellent results and has continuously strived to improve the quality of patient care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe University is proud to be associated with the duo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir extensive background in health and leadership qualities will strengthen our position as a leading provider of health education in Western Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teresa Belcher, Public Relations, Curtin University<br \/>\nTel: 08 9266 9085; Email: <a href=\"mailto:teresa.belcher@curtin.edu.au\">teresa.belcher@curtin.edu.au<\/a>, Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/curtin.edu.au\">http:\/\/curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Nursing and Midwifery recently recognised two outstanding nurse leaders by conferring them with the honour of Adjunct Associate Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17765","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}},"experts":false},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}