Professor Debra Kiegaldie is a registered nurse with a background in intensive care nursing. She returns to Monash University in 2024 as the Interprofessional Education & Simulation Lead for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences. She held previous roles as Clinical Chair for Holmesglen Institute and Healthscope Hospitals and Director of Medical Education and Simulation at Monash Health. She is also the current Chair of the Victorian Simulation Alliance Board of Management. 

Debra’s career has spanned over 30 years leading a range of education and research initiatives in areas such as curriculum development and delivery in health professions education and simulation, interprofessional learning, virtual reality, falls, delirium and end-of-life-care. Her collaborative work extends across all health professions and she has been the recipient of national and international awards. She has attracted significant grant funding and was recently co-investigator on an NH&MRC partnership grant on Falls in Australian Hospitals. She has recently led two major projects for the Victorian State Government on an Australian-Canadian international research partnership for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program and to build a skills lab in health care courses as part of a Care Economy initiative.