Professor Frances Lin is an established acute and critical care researcher and educator. Her research expertise is in implementation science, health services research, and designing complex interventions to improve patient safety and quality of care. Her current program of research focuses on patient flow (access and exit block) in adult intensive care units. Collaborating with others and helping health services/organisations build clinical research capacity are key features of Frances Lin’s work.

• Strategic leadership
• Capacity building
• Health services research
• Implementation science
• Mixed methods
• Randomised controlled trials
• Qualitative methods

Frances has current collaborations with researchers in the following organisations researching intensive care unit bed block:

1. Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN): Flinders Medical Centre Intensive Care Unit

2. Metro North Hospital and Health Service: Caboolture Hospital and Redcliffe Hospital intensive care units

3. Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service: Sunshine Coast University Hospital intensive care unit

4. Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service: Hervey Bay Hospital intensive care unit

In addition, she is well connected with the Chinese nursing community and has collaborated with key Chinese researchers on a number of large-scale international projects in recent years. She is the inaugural Nursing Chair Professor of Peking University First Hospital, China; and is an Honorary Professor of China Medical University, and Zunyi Medical University. China.

• Zhaoyu Li - Doctor of Philosophy
• Yingyan (Lisa) Chen - Doctor of Philosophy
• Snez Stolic - Doctor of Philosophy
• Terry Fromader - Doctor of Philosophy