Emeritus Professor Margaret O'Connor AM, CF
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Margaret O’Connor is an Australian palliative care consultant, clinical researcher, and an academic. She is the Emeritus Professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Monash University. She has had a diverse career in clinical care and in establishing home-based palliative care services across Melbourne. For her services in the development and establishment of palliative care services in Victoria, she was honoured by being made a Member of Order of Australia in 2005. She has researched extensively on service systems, clinical settings of palliative care, bereavement, and policy issues around palliative care and culture. Margaret has always maintained a clinical role focus in her academic roles and this academic and clinical combination is more recently borne out in her role as a Research Consultant for Melbourne City Mission Palliative Care. She has more than 170 publications in peer-reviewed Journals. Margaret initiated the formation, and then led the development of, Palliative Care Nurses’ Australia; the Group then started an oration named in her honour. In 2018, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to explore assisted dying issues around the world. Margaret began her academic career in 1992 as a Sessional Lecturer at Catholic Theological College, Melbourne. In 2001, she joined La Trobe University as a Lecturer in Cancer and Palliative Care and from 2003 to 2014, she served as the Inaugural Vivian Bullwinkel Chair in Palliative Care Nursing at Monash University In recognition of her contributions, she was appointed Emeritus Professor at Monash University in 2014. The following year, she became the Inaugural Professor of Nursing at Swinburne University of Technology, a position she held until 2017. She has held numerous administrative and professional roles throughout her career including as Coordinator of Nursing at Mid-Eastern Palliative Care Association, Melbourne, and Director of Caritas Christi & Order of Malta Hospice Home Care Service. She was the first nurse member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the National Health & Medical Research Council and President of Palliative Care Australia. She was appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Voluntary Assisted Dying, and subsequently served on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board. Internationally, Margaret was an inaugural Board member of the World Palliative Care Alliance and the Australian representative on the Asia-Pacific Hospice Network. Currently, she serves as an independent non-executive Director of Catholic Healthcare Limitedand is Board Chair of Palliative Care South-East in Melbourne Margaret continues her academic involvements through student supervision, teaching and writing. |
Contactmargaret.oconnor@monash.edu |
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RN, DN (La Trobe), MN (RMIT), B Theol (MCD), Dip Ed & Pub, FACN, MAICD, MPCNA