Associate Professor Rachel Kornhaber is a Registered Nurse commencing her career at the Severe Burns Injury Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) Sydney. Rachel completed a Master of Nursing Science at the University of Adelaide (UoA) where she explored workforce issues for burns nurses. Following this, Rachel was a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award in 2010 and the RNSH Nursing top-up scholarship (2010 – 2012) and completed a PhD investigating burn survivors’ experiences of rehabilitation and challenges with access to rehabilitation services in Australia. Rachel was the recipient of the 2013 UoA Eleanor Harrald Post-Doctoral Fellowship exploring rehabilitation models of burns care.

Prior to employment at Charles Sturt University, Rachel coordinated the Masters of Burns at the UoA before taking an academic post at the University of Tasmania, Sydney from 2014 to mid-2023 where she was appointed campus lead and the Academic Integrity Advisor for the School of Nursing.

• Adjunct Associate Professor School of Nursing, University of Adelaide
• Adjunct Associate Professor School of Nursing, University of Tasmania
• Adjunct Appointment, Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame
• Research Fellow, National Burns Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
• ISBI - Committee Chair Research
• APBA - Executive Committee