Jessica Corner
Professor Dame Jessica Corner (born 22 March 1961) is a British nurse, academic, educator and author.
She graduated with a PhD from King's College London in 1990.
Originally a nurse, she served as Director of the Centre of Cancer and Palliative Care Studies and Deputy Dean of Nursing at the Royal Marsden Hospital's Institute of Cancer Research (1996-2008). She is the first nurse to be appointed to a Chair at the Institute.[1]
Corner has been Dean (since 2010) of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professor (since 2008) of Cancer and Palliative Care at the University of Southampton.[2]
She was elected chair of the Council of Deans of Health and is a member of the Nursing and Care Quality Forum. She has written three books and written/edited dozens of papers for academic journals. She is a member of the Higher Education Funding Council 2014 Research Excellence Framework sub-panel.[3]