Professor Fiona Bogossian
Professor, Practice Education in Health, Academic Lead USC Clinical School
Fiona Bogossian is Professor of Practice Education in Health and Academic Lead at the USC Clinical School – Sunshine Coast Health Institute. Fiona is a Registered Nurse and Midwife with clinical, policy, education, and research experience in midwifery and neonatal nursing. She has qualifications in education, public health and epidemiology, and a strong track record in academic mentorship. Fiona is a Churchill Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prior to her appointment at USC, Fiona was a foundation academic in the UQ School of Nursing and Midwifery (2005-2018), where she pioneered Queensland’s first Bachelor of Midwifery program and designed and implemented UQ’s first practice-based electronic portfolio. Fiona’s expertise spans clinical, health services, and education research in particular longitudinal cohort studies, randomised trials, qualitative approaches, and mixed methods. She has $3m in grants since 2009, and over 100 peer reviewed publications.
Fiona’s disciplinary leadership is demonstrated at national and international levels through a long history of ministerial appointments, membership of research foundation grants committees, accreditation panels, as Sub-Editor for Women and Birth, on U21 Health Sciences Group Executive (2013-2016) and the ARC – ERA Impact and Engagement Pilot (2107).