Professor Karen Cox, Vice-Chancellor and President, has been appointed as Associate Non-Executive Director, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Professor Cox has extensive experience in the health care sector having graduated from King’s College London with a BSc (Hons) and her Registered General Nurse qualification in 1991. She has held a number of clinical posts in Oxford, Southampton, Gloucestershire and Nottingham, specialising in Oncology and Community Health Care (District Nursing).
Her PhD at the University of Nottingham was funded by the Cancer Research Campaign, she was promoted to Professor of Cancer and Palliative Care in 2002 and served as Head of the School of Nursing at Nottingham from 2002 until 2007.
Since joining the University, Professor Cox has been a driving force in the establishment of the Kent and Medway Medical School, and her appointment will serve to further strengthen the University’s links with the NHS. Professor Cox is also a board member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) the UK regulator for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates.