Slark, Dr Julia

Jocelyn Peach
Aug 4, 2024
2 min read

Updated: Jan 6

Head of School of Nursing Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland

Registered Nurse. PhD Head of School Nursing in 2019

Dr Julia Slark started her nurse training at Charing Cross Hospital. She qualified as a Registered Nurse in London, UK in 1993. She has 15 years’ experience as a senior clinical nurse specialist in stroke patient care. She was part of the team at Imperial College NHS Trust which implemented the London-wide, new stroke strategy to provide urgent hyper-acute stroke interventions to London regional populations in 2009. She was part of a team that reconfigured stroke services, working in northwest London. She was nominated as a finalist in the Nursing Times Nurse of the Year awards for her work.

Julia obtained her PhD from Imperial College London in 2012 which researched risk awareness as a tool to improve secondary stroke prevention strategies.

On arrival in New Zealand in 2013, Julia led two stroke development projects in Auckland and Waikato to implement hyper-acute stroke services as Professional Teaching Fellow for the University of Nursing. She co-ordinated New Zealand’s only stroke speciality nursing course. She then became Academic Director Bachelor of Nursing Programme for five years. She became Deputy Head of School in 2007 and Head of School Nursing in 2019. Julia is also the inaugural Chair of the Stroke Nurse Forum Aotearoa which established in November 2020.

Julia is an enthusiastic and committed nurse, educator and researcher. She is passionate about providing the highest standards of care to patients. Her research interests include nursing, education and all aspects of stroke patient care. She also recognised the importance of collaboration.