Christine Moffatt

Christine Joy Moffatt, CBE, FRCN is a British nurse and educator.

Biography[]

Following training at Charing Cross Hospital, Moffatt trained as a district nurse. Following a diploma in leg ulcer care she became involved in research, became a lecturer at Imperial College London. She ran the Centre for Research and Implementation of Clinical Practice independently before entering into an association with Thames Valley University.^{[citation needed]}

Professor Moffatt was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year's Honours list by Queen Elizabeth II and became a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the same year.

She is co-Chair of the International Lymphoedema Framework and a member of the Centre for Research and Implementation of Clinical Practice of which she is a co-founder. The centre has a large clinical research programme including running multi-centre trials. She is involved in assisting organisations in developing and evaluating new services. Current research projects include epidemiology of lymphoedema, evaluation of leg ulcer treatments and the development of quality of life measures for patient outcome. She co-runs (with Peter Franks), the Lymphoedema Framework Project in partnership with the and the Wandsworth PCT, in association with the British Lymphology Society.

Professor Moffatt is an Emeritus Professor at Nottingham University where she was Professor of Clinical Nursing Research and a nurse consultant to the Derby Lymphoedema Service at Royal Derby Hospital whose service covers three hospital sites - Derby, Queens Medical centre, Nottingham, and Kingsmill Hospital, Mansfield. Recognising the need for a national body to represent professionals treating patients with leg ulceration, she launched the "Leg Ulcer Forum", of which she is president. She was president of the European Wound Management Association Council, an organisation responsible for facilitating research, education and practice in European countries from November 1999 until May 2002. She has also had four nursing textbooks published.

She is a patron of .^[1]

She is currently International Professor of Clinical Nursing at Nottingham Trent University, where her inaugural lecture in February 2020 focused on Chronic oedema and wounds: a neglected global scandal and an international response.^[2]

She holds visiting chairs at: University of Glasgow; Cardiff University Medical School Wound Healing Institute; Kanazawa University, Japan, Montpellier University, France and Western Ontario University, Canada and ^[3] UK.

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