Patsy Yates is an Australian registered nurse, university professor, and institutional leader who works at the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane), where she is a Distinguished Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health, Research Director of the Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education,[1] and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthcare Transformation.
She also completed degrees as Bachelor of Arts (1986), Master of Social Science (1992) and PhD (2000) at the University of Queensland.
[5] In her PhD and derived work,[7] she explored the experiences of recently bereaved caregivers of people with cancer.
[23][24][25] Also a member of the Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group Scientific Committee (PC4),[26] In the public policy field, Yates has been an advocate for increasing nurse-to-patient ratios,[27] increasing public coverage of palliative cancer care,[28] and supporting indigenous nursing scholarship.
[31] In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours List, she was named a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.