Rate My Professor Claire Rickard

Professor Claire Rickard serves as Professor of Infection Prevention and Vascular Access in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Queensland, a position held since 2021 in collaboration with Metro North Hospital and Health Service. A Registered Nurse with expertise in acute and critical care, she earned her Bachelor of Nursing, Postgraduate Diploma, and PhD from Queensland University of Technology in 2004, the latter examining the impact of intravascular administration set duration on bloodstream infections. Earlier in her career, Rickard coordinated pharmaceutical and investigator-initiated research in the ICU at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She founded the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR) in 2007, which has expanded into a network of over 100 professionals across nursing, medicine, science, consumers, statistics, and health economics, conducting large-scale RCTs and providing education through workshops and postgraduate courses. Rickard is an NHMRC Leadership 2 Fellow and has received honors including induction into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2013 and election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2015.