  {"id":17800,"date":"2011-09-07T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/nurse-leaders-conferred-as-adjunct-associate-professors-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:54:22","slug":"nurse-leaders-conferred-as-adjunct-associate-professors-2","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/nurse-leaders-conferred-as-adjunct-associate-professors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse leaders conferred as Adjunct Associate Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s School of Nursing and Midwifery recently recognised two outstanding nurse leaders by conferring the honour of Adjunct Associate Professor.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Carmody, Silver Chain\u2019s General Manager of Health, and Maha Rajagopal, Royal Perth Hospital\u2019s Director of Nursing and Patient Support Services were appointed in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the health arena in Western Australia, and for their close relationship with Âé¶¹Ö±²¥.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jill Downie, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health Sciences said the University was delighted the experienced health professionals had accepted the honorary positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Carmody\u2019s nursing career is exceptional. He has held a number of prominent positions in the health arena including Chief Executive Officer\/Director of Nursing at St John of God Hospital. His hospital was awarded the Australian Public Health Association Award for Excellence and a WorkSafe Gold Award,\u201d Professor Downie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaha Rajagopal has held several senior nursing positions including Acting Area Director of Nursing for South Metropolitan Health Services. She 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. Their 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>Photo:<\/strong> (L-R): Professor Philip Della, Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Stephen Carmody, Maha Rajagopal and Professor Jill Downie, Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kristy Jones \/ Teresa Belcher, Public Relations, Âé¶¹Ö±²¥<br \/>\n<\/strong>Tel: 08 9266 9085, Email: <a href=\"mailto:k.jones@curtin.edu.au\">k.jones@curtin.edu.au<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:teresa.belcher@curtin.edu.au\">teresa.belcher@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s School of Nursing and Midwifery recently recognised two outstanding nurse leaders by conferring 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-17800","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":"Âé¶¹Ö±²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17800","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\/17800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17800"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}