Frederick Graham

Dr. Frederick Graham (BNurs, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland's Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences and a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Health Services Research. He serves as clinical lead for the Dementia and Delirium Nursing Service at Princess Alexandra Hospital, where he has worked for over 15 years as a clinical expert in dementia and delirium care.

• Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland
• Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research
• Clinical Nurse Consultant, Princess Alexandra Hospital

His research focuses on reorganizing hospital care environments and building workforce capacity for therapeutic care in vulnerable cohorts, emphasizing knowledge translation through experiential learning, environmental design, and pain-related symptomology. Key projects include developing special care units for dementia patients and creating pain assessment tools for cognitively impaired individuals.

Recent publications span topics like hospital readmission reduction (2025), interprofessional delirium protocols (2025), pain recognition in dementia (2024), and implementation science in age-friendly care (2021). His work has been recognized with the QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2021).

• Queensland Health Early Career Nursing Fellowship
• Metro South Health Future Research Leader Fellowship
• Multiple research grants (2023-2025)

As an emerging research leader, he supervises two higher research nursing students and mentors a nurse practitioner student at UQ, advocating for research pathways in clinical nursing careers. His collaborations with organizations like the Australian Frailty Network and Queensland Digital Health Centre position him at the intersection of clinical practice and translational research.