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Dr Rachel Kornhaber

Associate Professor - School of Health

Biography

Associate Professor Rachel Kornhaber is a Sydney-based nurse academic and researcher recognised for her leadership in trauma-informed care, burns care, nursing education, and academic integrity. Rachel is the Sydney Lead (Nursing), and undergraduate Nursing Lead. Ranked among the world’s top 2% of academics, she has made sustained contributions to burns/plastics, wound care, device technology, trauma-informed research, teaching and professional practice across undergraduate and postgraduate nursing. Her work examines the psychological and systemic dimensions of trauma, recovery, and resilience in both patients and health professionals.

Rachel has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to research projects attracting competitive funding. Her scholarship has advanced understanding of trauma-informed care, compassion fatigue, and the lived experience of burn survivors, helping shape evidence-based practice across the health and education sectors. She collaborates widely across Australia, Europe, Middle East, Asia - Pacific, and the United States, and is an adjunct at the University of Adelaide.

Rachel previously held the position of Academic Integrity Advisor, supporting ethical scholarship and professional standards across the health disciplines. She continues to promote integrity, fairness, and transparency in higher education.

Her past positions include Committee Chair of the Research Committee for the International Society for Burn Injuries and Past Secretary of the Asia Pacific Burn Association.

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.