Maria Qvistgaard

Maria Qvistgaard is a Lecturer and former PhD student at Linnaeus University's Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. She serves as Deputy Dean for Campus Växjö and Ljungby since January 2022. Her primary teaching responsibilities include perioperative care courses for operating-room nurse education, focusing on clinical training assessments, seminar supervision, and thesis guidance.

She completed her doctoral studies in December 2021 with a thesis titled "Safeguarding from Surgical Site Infections: A Mutual Responsibility Between the Patient, Caregiver, and Perioperative Healthcare Leaders". Her research investigates prevention strategies for surgical site infections (SSIs), emphasizing antibiotic resistance challenges and interdisciplinary approaches to infection control.

Key research areas include perioperative care protocols, surgical infection epidemiology, and patient-clinician collaboration in reducing SSIs. She is affiliated with the Centre of Interprofessional Collaboration within Emergency care (CICE) and the Centre for Interprofessional Collaboration and Sepsis in Acute Care (CISA). Her work has been published in journals like BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders and Journal of Infection Prevention, focusing on risk factors in hip arthroplasty, surgical draping techniques, and patient-centered disinfection practices.

Her academic contributions bridge clinical practice and research, addressing urgent healthcare challenges such as antibiotic resistance through evidence-based interventions. She actively participates in university governance, balancing educational leadership with scholarly pursuits.