Dr Lisa Chen is a cardiac nurse and a senior lecturer with many years of teaching in Australian universities. She has experience in the postgraduate course curriculum design and is heavily involved in undergraduate nursing education and some postgraduate teaching. Lisa will teach in two courses in Semester 1 2025 at Monash University, including NUR3310 Translation of Nursing Knowledge to Complex Acute Care Practice and NUR5300 Foundations of Cardiac Nursing. Lisa has received positive feedback previously from her students, the teaching team, and year-level and program coordinators for her exceptional communication and organisational skills. While having emerging higher degree research supervision, Lisa has been actively involved in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects that aim to improve the student learning experience and promote student success., with a recent completion of her Fellowship High Education Academy Scholar Practice Program.

Lisa is an early career researcher who is building her track record in research areas related to cardiovascular nursing research, health service re-design, and nurse education in acute and critical care settings. She is passionate about knowledge translation and committed to bridging the ‘know-do’ gap between the best available evidence and clinical practice and improving the short- and long-term outcomes of patients in critical care settings. Lisa’s research so far has made impacts from changing clinical practice to informing policy changes, such as promoting same-day discharge following percutaneous coronary intervention to streamline cardiac services delivery. Lisa has published 21 peer-reviewed journal articles, predominantly in Q1 journals, among which 11 were the first authors. She has been invited as a speaker at a state-wide level and received the cardiovascular nursing prize at the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand conference in 2019. Lisa is currently working on several research projects in areas of improving cardiac and ICU discharge processes and assessing acute care nurses’ competency in electrocardiogram interpretation. She has the capacity for supervising higher degree research students.

Lisa’s engagement is demonstrated at national and international levels as an active cardiovascular nurse researcher and critical care nurse researcher. As an executive member of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Cardiovascular Nursing Council, she takes part in all decision-making activities, such as being part of the scientific committee. Lisa is also an executive committee member of the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association Research and Quality subcommittee. In addition, Lisa is a member of the CONNECT “Cardiac surgery internatiONal Nursing and alliEd professional research neTwork” which focuses on supporting international cardiac surgery nursing research. Lisa will explore engagement activities in her current institution as she just commenced the role recently.