Keryln Carville is the Professor of Primary Health Care and Community Nursing at Silverchain Group and Curtin University, Western Australia.  She Chairs the Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance.  She co-ordinates the Curtin University Postgraduate Program of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Practice in Australia and Singapore. She was appointed a Fellow of Wounds Australia in 2006; a Life Member of the Australian Association of Stomal Therapy Nurses in 2015;  awarded a World Union of Wound Healing Societies Life Achievement Awards in 2022   She has 150 peer reviewed publications and texts.