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Carmen has extensive experience in the higher education and healthcare sectors, which includes over 15 years of higher education teaching and leadership in nursing and medical education and over a decade of clinical expertise at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Carmen completed her PhD (Medicine) at Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She received a Research Training Fellowship from the NSW Institute of Psychiatry and has presented research findings at national and international conferences.
Carmen worked as an academic for twelve years at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her previous role was Course Director for postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Health, UTS. She has extensive experience in curriculum design and development, course accreditation, governance, people management and transformational leadership. She has expertise with online learning delivery and classroom simulation. Carmen formally worked for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) in the role of Medical Education Officer where she led the implementation of the RACP’s education program known as the ‘Physician Readiness for Expert Practice program’ in NSW and ACT.
Carmen has peer reviewed book chapters and journal articles for several journals. Carmen’s publications cover the topics of online education, learning analytics, classroom simulation, mental health and wellbeing, physician psychiatric morbidity and burnout, cardiopulmonary transplantation and ventricular assist devices. She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Technology Sydney.
Publications
Mengistu N, Axisa C, Saravanakumar P. (2026). Alcohol use disorder and co-occurring mental illness among older adults in low and middle-income countries: A narrative systematic review. Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, vol 21, no. 19 <https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-025-00640-4>
Goodhew M, Matiuk S, Axisa C, Gough C, River J. (2025) Transforming Alcohol and Other Drug Education Through Co-Design, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39925139/>
Keypath Education (2025). Nurses at the forefront of healthcare’s digital revolution. Axisa, C. (personal communication, interview, February 21, 2025) Australian Financial Review, <https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/nurses-at-the-forefront-of-healthcare-s-digital-revolution-20250304-p5lgtz>
Alexandra Cain (2025). Online training helps resolve health talent crisis. Axisa C. (personal communication, interview, December 17, 2024) Australian Financial Review, <https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/online-training-helps-resolve-health-talent-crisis-20250129-p5l82r>
Wilson, A., Sinclair, P., Cornish, J., Axisa, C., & Sheppard-Law, S. (2024). Exploring the experiences of postgraduate nursing students in accelerated asynchronous online courses. Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) Adelaide. (Oral presentation).
Wilson, A., Sheppard-Law, S., Cornish, J., Axisa, C., & Sinclair, P. (2023). Navigating accelerated online-only learning: Unveiling the student experience (Oral presentation). Te Puna Aurei LearnFest 2023 'Education without Boundaries', University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Sheppard-Law, S., Lamb, A., Zeng, L., Axisa, C., Causby, B., Matiuk, S. and Levett-Jones, T. (2024). The measured impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing students’ wellbeing, clinical placement and learning experiences: a cross sectional study. Contemporary Nurse,
<https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2023.2300414>
Zhou, J., Sheppard‑Law, S., Xiao, C., Smith, J., Lamb, A., Axisa, C. and Chen, F. (2023). Leveraging twitter data to understand nurses’ emotion dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Information Science and Systems, vol. 11: 28, <DOI: 10.1007/s13755-023-00228-9>
Ferńandez-Nieto, G. Echeverria, V. Buckingham Shum, S. Mangaroska, K. Kitto, K. Palominos, E. Axisa, C. and Martinez-Maldonado, R. (2021). Storytelling with Learner Data: Guiding Student Reflection on Multimodal Team Data. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technology, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 695-708.
White, H. Hayes, C. Axisa, C. & Power, T. (2021). On the other side of simulation: evaluating faculty debriefing styles, Clinical Simulation in Nursing, vol. 61, pp. 96- 106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2021.08.004
Axisa, C. (2021). Doctors’ wellbeing: a study of burnout and psychological distress in Australian physician trainees, [Doctoral Thesis, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney], University of Sydney, <https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/24403?show=full>
Martinez-Maldonado R, Mangaraska, K, Schulte, J. Elliot, D. Axisa, C. & Buckingham Shum S. (2020). Teacher Tracking with Integrity: What Indoor Positioning Can Reveal About Instructional Proxemics Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, March 2020 Article No: 22 <https://doi.org/10.1145/3381017>
Martinez-Maldonado R, Elliott D, Axisa C, Power T, Echeverria V & Buckingham Shum S. (2020). Designing translucent learning analytics with teachers: an elicitation process, Interactive Learning Environments, published online 19 January 2020 < https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/doi/full/10.1080/10494820.2019.1710541>
Axisa, C. Nash, L. Kelly, P. & Willcock S. (2020). Psychiatric morbidity, burnout and distress in Australian physician trainees, Australian Health Review, vol. 44, pp. 31-38, <https://doi.org/10.1071/AH18076>
Axisa, C. Nash, L. Kelly, P. & Willcock S. (2019). Burnout and distress in Australian physician trainees: Evaluation of a wellbeing workshop, Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 27(3), pp. 255-261, <DOI: 10.1177/1039856219833793>
Axisa, C. Nash, L. Kelly, P. & Willcock S. (2019). Burnout and distress in Australian physician trainees: evaluation of a wellbeing workshop, Australasian Doctors Health Conference, Perth Australia, 32.
Martinez-Maldonado R, Echeverria V, Elliott D, Axisa C, Power T, & Buckingham Shum, S. (2019). Making the design of CSCL analytics interfaces a co-design process: the case of multimodal teamwork in healthcare, International Society of the Learning Sciences, 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Volume 2, pp. 859-860, Lyon France.
Axisa C, Nash L, Kelly P. & Willcock S. (2018). Psychiatric morbidity, burnout and distress in Australian physician trainees. lnternational Conference on Physician Health, Toronto, Canada, 61.
Axisa C, Nash L, Kelly P. & Willcock S. (2018). Psychiatric morbidity, burnout and distress in Australian physician trainees: A Wellbeing Workshop, lnternational Conference on Physician Health, Toronto, Canada, 208.
Axisa C, Nash L, Kelly P. & Willcock S. (2018). Stress and distress among physician trainees: A cross-sectional study. Well-Med 3rd International Meeting on Well-Being and Performance in Clinical Practice. Thessaloniki, Greece.
Axisa C, Nash L, Kelly P. &Willcock S. (2017) Stress and distress among physician trainees: A cross-sectional study. Australasian Doctors Health Conference, 60. 90-94
Martinez-Maldonado R, Power T, Hayes C, Abdipranoto A, Vo T, Axisa C, and Buckingham-Shum S. (2017) Analytics Meet Patient Manikins: Challenges in an Authentic Small-Group Healthcare Simulation Classroom. International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK 2017.
Dennis M, Bowen WT, & Cho L. (2017). Top 60 signs for nurses quick reference guide for best practice care. Chatswood, NSW: Elsevier. Axisa C. Review of all chapters
Martinez-Maldonado R., Pechenizkiy M., Power T, Buckingham-Shum S, Hayes C. and Axisa C. (2017) Modelling Embodied Mobility Teamwork Strategies in a Simulation-Based Healthcare Classroom. International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2017, 308-312.
Axisa C, Nash L, Kelly P, Willcock S. (2016) Stress and distress among physician trainees: A cross-sectional study. 21st National Prevocational Medical Education Forum, 54-55
Baumwol J, Macdonald PS, Keogh AM, Kotlyar E, Spratt P, Jansz P, Axisa C, Hayward CS (2009). Older age is associated with suboptimal outcomes on continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 18, S3: S182
Ahmed IM, Spratt P, Jansz P, Axisa C, Macdonald P, Granger E. (2008) VentrAssist Left Ventricular Assist Device: St. Vincent’s Hospital Experience. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 27 (2S), S155.
Watson A, Jansz P, Granger E, Farnsworth A, Axisa C, Kotlyar E, Keogh A, Hayward C, Macdonald P, Spratt P. (2008) Continuous-flow versus pulsatile-flow LVADs used as a bridge to transplantation. Transplantation, 86 (2S), 270. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.tp.0000331997.03853.fd>
Axisa C, Jansz P, Granger E, Hayward C, Keogh A, Kotlyar E, Tay A, Macdonald P, Spratt P. (2008) Ventricular fibrillation in the patient implanted with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device case report. Transplantation, 86 (2S), 531. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.tp.0000331253.01375.2e>
Axisa C, Jansz P, Granger E, Hayward C, Keogh A, Kotlyar E, Macdonald P, Spratt P (2009). Left ventricular assist devices – Patient discharge and distance education within New South Wales community locations. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 18 (1), 83.
Granger E, Axisa C, Jansz P, Macdonald P, Spratt P (2008). St. Vincent’s hospital experience with 3rd generation ventricular assist devices as bridge to transplant and destination therapy for advanced heart failure. American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 32(5) A22.
Watson A, Jansz P, Granger E, Farnsworth A, Axisa C, Kotlyar E, Keogh A, Hayward C, Macdonald P, Spratt P (2008). A single-hospital experience with 29 continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 17S: S154. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2008.05.366>
Watson A, Jansz P, Granger E, Farnsworth A, Axisa C, Kotlyer E, Keogh A, Hayward C, Macdonald P, Spratt P, (2008). Continuous-Flow vs. Pulsatile-Flow LVADs Used as a Bridge-to-Transplantation, Heart, Lung and Circulation, vol. 17, pp. S155 - S155, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2008.05.369>
Yorke J, Pile A, Tidcombe A, Axisa C, Haynes D, James M, Rollason M, Wills T, Crisp L. (2003). St Vincent’s hospital Sydney heart and lung ambulatory care services, Transplant Nurses Journal, 38-40.
Axisa C. (2002). Early extubation and time to extubation following cardiac surgery. Nursing Monogragh,1-4.
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