Anne-Marie Mahoney
La Trobe University, Australia
Biography
Dr Anne-Marie Mahoney is an Early Career Researcher in the La Trobe Rural Health School. Dr Mahoney was awarded her Professional Doctorate in 2012 from the University of Melbourne. Her thesis, entitled All of us getting older: time for reflection. Nurses’ attitudes to working with older people in acute care, drew from a qualitative, interview based study with 15 participants. Dr Mahoney currently maintains a lecturer/practitioner role by holding dual academic and clinical roles. She has an extensive employment history in the field of education having held an executive position at Austin Health for a number of years prior to joining La Trobe University. She has represented health services on a number of committees and working parties at State Government Level and was instrumental in the implementation of the Assistant in Nursing role at Austin Health in 2009.