Professor Judy Lumby A.M. is presently the Director of the Joanna Briggs Foundation. She holds the positions of Emeritus Professor UTS, Adjunct Professor, University of Adelaide and Adjunct Professor, the University of Sydney. She is also a member of the NSW Health Care Advisory Council.

Prior to her ten years as the Executive Director of the College of Nursing, Judy held numerous academic positions including head of School of Nursing, Australian Catholic University and Dean, School of Nursing, University of Technology She also held one of the first clinical chairs of nursing between the University of Sydney and Concord General Hospital. In this chair she was involved in the NSW Nurse Practitioner Project, which established the legitimate role for nurse practitioners in this country.

Judy's major research interests are the patient's experience of health and illness, facing and managing life threatening illnesses, models of care and quality and safety in health care. Presently she is involved in establishing the Joanna Briggs Foundation to support the work in developing countries of the Joanna Briggs Institute which is a major player in the international evidence based health care movement.

Apart from her many academic papers, book chapters and presentations, Judy has had three major books published, Clinical Challenges edited with Debbie Picone; Who Cares, (Allen & Unwin _ which charts the changes in our healthcare system over forty years and The Gift; Grandmothers and Grandchildren Today, (Pluto Press). Her latest publication is a chapter "Regulating Clinical Practice" written with Professor Bill Runciman in Healy J & Dugdale P (eds) Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care, (Allen & Unwin 2009).

Judy Lumby March 2010.