Patsy Yates

Patsy Yates is an Australian registered nurse, university professor, and institutional leader who works at the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane), where she is a Distinguished Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health, Research Director of the Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education, and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthcare Transformation. She is a specialist in the field of palliative, cancer and aged care.

Education

Yates completed her primary and secondary schooling at Loreto College Coorparoo, graduating in 1978. She became a registered nurse at Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane, 1981), and qualified in midwifery at Mater Mothers Hospital (Brisbane, 1985). She also completed degrees as Bachelor of Arts (1986), Master of Social Science (1992) and PhD (2000) at the University of Queensland. she explored the experiences of recently bereaved caregivers of people with cancer.

Career

After years working as a clinical nurse, Yates began a career as a nurse educator at the Holy Spirit Hospital (Brisbane). Along her career she has been awarded substantial grants as a principal investigator to conduct research in the field of palliative care from institutions like the National Health and Medical Research Council ( Australia), the Australian Department of Health and the Oncology Nursing Society (US) and others.

As a journal editor, she has been editorial board member at Asia Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing (2006 -), Cancer Nursing (2008 -), Progress in Palliative Care (2003 -), European Journal of Oncology Nursing (2009 -), Collegian (2014 -), Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (2013-2016), and Journal of Nursing Research (2016 -); also Co-editor of the Australian Journal of Cancer Nursing (1999 - 2008).

Over many years to present times, Yates has been a member of several bodies at the National Health and Medical Research Council, among them the Research Committee, the Ideas Grants Peer Review Mentor Committee, the Innovation Assessment Working Group, and others. Also a member of the Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group Scientific Committee (PC4),

In the public policy field, Yates has been an advocate for increasing nurse-to-patient ratios, increasing public coverage of palliative cancer care, and supporting indigenous nursing scholarship.

As a leader, she is a past-President of Palliative Care Australia, and is President of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care.

In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours List, she was named a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Heath and Medical Sciences in October 2022.

Works

Papers Yates has published over three hundred articles in academic journals. Her most cited articles are:

(cited 277 times,according to Google Scholar [ (cited 253 times, according to Google Scholar [ 2009 Tom Reeve Oration Award from the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia 2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council – Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2014 Awarded Premier's Award for Excellence in Leadership 2017 QuARRIES Award for Best Consumer Focused Project 2018 - Distinguished Researcher award from the Oncology Nursing Society (US). 2020 Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.