Biography

Amanda Charles is the associate director: risk at Austin Health, where she has been for the last five years. Amanda has worked as a Registered Nurse for almost 40 years in the public sector, generally in critical care areas, specifically emergency nursing. More recently, Amanda was employed at the Coroners Court, Victoria within the Clinical Liaison Service to assist the coroners in their investigations of healthcare-related deaths. Amanda is in the final stages of a PhD at Monash University where she is researching clinicians' understanding of deaths that are reportable to the Coroner.