Rate My Professor Lisa Whitehead

Previously, Whitehead was Associate Dean for Research in the ECU School of Nursing and Midwifery, Head of the Department of Nursing at the University of Otago, New Zealand, Director of the Strategy to Advance Research in Nursing and Allied Health—a New Zealand government-funded initiative—and founder and director of the JBI Centre for Evidence Informed Nursing and Midwifery. She holds honorary professorships at the University of Otago and the University of Jordan. Whitehead is Editor-in-Chief of Collegian, the Australian Journal of Nursing Practice, Scholarship and Research, and co-chairs the Awards Committee of the International Family Nursing Association. Her scholarly impact is evidenced by highly cited publications, including "The effectiveness of self-management mobile phone and tablet apps in long-term condition management: a systematic review" (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2016, 947 citations), "The measurement of fatigue in chronic illness: a systematic review of unidimensional and multidimensional fatigue measures" (Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2009, 583 citations), and recent works such as "Nurses' experience of managing adults living with multimorbidity: A qualitative study" (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2023). In 2022, she was named WA Nurse of the Year by the WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing (FACN).