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Dr. Kerry Inder serves as the Clinical Dean at the Central Coast Clinical School and holds the position of Professor of Clinical Education and Interprofessional Learning in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. She is currently Acting Head of School for the School of Nursing and Midwifery (February 2024 to June 2025) and Professor of Nursing in the same school (2022-2025). Previously, she was Associate Professor of Nursing (2015-2021), Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (2014-2015), and Senior Research Fellow at the Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health (2013-2014). Her academic qualifications include a PhD (2006), Bachelor of Nursing (1995), and Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology (2001) from the University of Newcastle, along with a Certificate in Tertiary Teaching (2007). Inder's career originated as a hospital-trained registered nurse at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney (1985-1989), advancing to Clinical Nurse Specialist, NSW State Cardiac Rehabilitation Coordinator for the National Heart Foundation of Australia (1989-1992), and Cardiac Rehabilitation Coordinator and Clinical Nurse Consultant at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle (1992-2004). She joined the University of Newcastle as Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health in 2004.
Inder's research specializations include chronic disease management encompassing cardiovascular disease, mental health and well-being, multi-morbidity, ageing, rural health, and health services research, with emphasis on access to evidence-based health care, quality and safety, data linkage using routinely collected data, and knowledge translation into practice. She has completed supervision of 24 PhD students and led 13 research grants totaling $1,534,292. Awards include the HMRI Xstrata Coal research fellowship (2010), School Research Supervision Excellence Award from the School of Nursing and Midwifery (2017), Faculty of Health Research Excellence Award (2012), Health services research fellowship from the Newcastle Institute of Public Health (2005), Wansey Azar PhD Scholarship (2003), and Distinguished Service Award from the Australian Cardiac Rehabilitation Association (2002). Key publications comprise 'The Respiratory Nurse in Pulmonary Rehabilitation' (2017), 'Metabolic Health, Overweight or Obesity, and Depressive Symptoms among Older Australian Adults' (2024), 'Effectiveness and reporting of nutrition interventions in cardiac rehabilitation programmes: a systematic review' (2023), 'Feasibility of biomarkers to measure stress, burnout and fatigue in emergency nurses: a cross-sectional study' (2023), and contributions to the Australian Rural Mental Health Study on rural mental health issues.
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