| Birth Date: | 1962 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Streamstown, Co Westmeath |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Alma Mater: | Buckinghamshire New University University of Surrey University of Oxford |
| Discipline: | Nursing |
| Work Institution: | Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney |
| Known For: | Research in Nursing and Person-centred Care |
| Website: | https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/brendan-mccormack.html |
Brendan George McCormack (born 11 August 1962) is a nursing academic and internationally renowned nursing leader. McCormack's research focuses on person-centredness with a particular focus on the development of person-centred cultures, practices and processes. McCormack is the Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery & Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney.[1] Additionally, McCormack maintains honorary academic positions at Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University, Zealand University Hospital/University of Southern Denmark, Ulster University and University of Pretoria and is the Associate Director of the International Community of Practice for person-centred practice research (PcPR-ICoP).[2] McCormack was the founding editor of “International Journal of Older People Nursing” and currently remains ‘Editor Emeritus’ of the journal.[3]
McCormack is a Registered Nurse.
He holds a BSc in nursing from Buckinghamshire New University, a Post Graduate Certificate in the Education of Adults from the University of Surrey and a DPhil in Educational Studies from the University of Oxford.
McCormack started out his career as a psychiatric staff nurse in St Loman's Hospital, Mullingar Ireland. Following becoming a Registered General Nurse, McCormack moved to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, England where he worked as a staff nurse in Trauma Orthopaedics and General Medicine, before moving to Battle Hospital, Reading, England and working as a staff nurse in Urology. Shortly after, McCormack returned to the Royal Berkshire Hospital to take upon his first Charge Nurse (Job-share)/Nurse Teacher role within the General & Vascular surgery unit.
Professor McCormack became the Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery & Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney in May 2022. Prior to this, McCormack was the Professor of Nursing and Head of the Divisions of Nursing, Paramedic Science, Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies, School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (2014-2022). Additionally, McCormack is Extraordinary Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Professor of Nursing, Maribor University, Slovenia; Visiting Professor, Ulster University; Adjunct Professor, Zealand University Hospital/University of Southern Denmark; Professor II, Østfold University College, Norway; Honorary Professor of Nursing, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
McCormack’s research focuses on person-centredness with a particular focus on the development of person-centred cultures, practices and processes. McCormack has specific expertise in gerontology and dementia practices. However, McCormack's work extends through all specialities and is multi-professional. McCormack is methodologically diverse, but has a particular fondness for participatory/action research. Additionally, McCormack brings expertise and enthusiasm to the use of arts and creativity in healthcare research and development.
2022: Member Academia Europaea
2019: Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
2018: Listed in ‘We Nurses’ Twitter Group #100 outstanding nurses https://twitter.com/search?q=%23100outstandingnurses&src=tyah
2018: Honorary Fellow, Queens Nursing Institute Scotland
2017: Fellow of The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)
2017: European Society for Person-centred healthcare 2017 Book Award Person-centred Healthcare Research – ‘the person in question’: The Person-centred Research Handbook, (2017) Wiley Publishers, Oxford (with for Eide T, Skovdal K, Eide H, Kapstad H and van Dulman S)
2016: Fellow Emeritus, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
2015: Distinguished Fellowship – European Society for Person Centered Healthcare (ESPCH)
2015: Inspirational Nursing Leadership Award, Nursing Times
2014: International Researcher Hall of Fame, Sigma Theta Tau International
2014: Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing[4]
2014: Ranked in the world’s top 3,000 researchers by the Thomson Reuters.
2008: Fellow of The European Academy of Nursing Science [EANS]
2011: Senior Distinguished Research Fellow, Ulster University
2011 (with Professor Bridie Kent): Sigma Theta Tau Book of the Year (Kent B and McCormack B (2010) An enabling context for evidence-based practice. Blackwell Publishing and Sigma Theta Tau International, Oxford).
Married to Michael Davidson, two children.
McCormack has over 520 publications on Google Scholar[5] which have been cited over 25,500 times giving him an h-index of 65. His top five highest cited articles are: