RN, ICU Cert, BN, Grad Dip Adv Nurs, PhD. FAAN, GAICD Tracey Bucknall is a Deakin Distinguished Professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, and Co-Director of the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, Institute of Health Transformation, Deakin University. She holds a joint appointment at Alfred Health as the Foundational Chair in Nursing, and Director of Nursing Research. She also holds Adjunct Professorships at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and Macquarie University, Australia. Professor Bucknall is internationally recognised as a decision scientist in health care. Her research focuses on improving patient safety, augmenting clinical decision-making of clinicians and consumers, and the implementation of research into practice. She has a sustained record of competitive research funding, presented her research nationally and internationally, and published over 250 scholarly publications in decision making and knowledge translation. She serves on National Health and Medical Research Council grant review panels and advisory committees for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Her recent awards include: the Deakin Distinguished Professorial Award (2017), Fellowship of the American Academy of Nursing (2018) and the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame of Sigma International (2019).