Sandy Middleton

Professor Sandy Middleton is Professor of Nursing and Director of the Nursing Research Institute at St Vincent’s Health Network, Sydney, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, and Australian Catholic University. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and an NHMRC Leadership Fellow. Prof. Middleton’s area of interest is implementation science. She is the lead investigator on the Quality in Acute Stroke Care Program, leading implementation of nurse-initiated protocols to manage fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing post-stroke. Prof. Middleton was awarded the 2023 American Heart Association on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, Stroke Council, Stroke Article of the Year Award for leading the Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC) Europe study in 64 hospitals within 17 European countries. In 2024, she was awarded the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand, Distinguished Senior Investigator Lifetime achievement award.

Director, Nursing Research Institute
St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and Australian Catholic University.

Director, Implementation Science
Director, Nursing and Midwifery Implementation Science Academy, Maridulu Budyari Gumal (Sydney Partnership in Health, Education, Research & Enterprise - SPHERE) Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre

Honorary Clinical Professor, University of Central Lancashire (UK), Research Institute For global HEalth and Wellbeing (LIFE)

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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7201-4394