Dr Katherine Riley is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Wollongong with more than 20 years’ clinical experience in emergency nursing across rural and regional settings. Her research focuses on rural emergency care, resuscitation, telehealth, human factors and clinical workforce capability. Katherine’s PhD explored rural nurses’ experiences and practices during resuscitation in small emergency departments. She currently leads TeleResus, a statewide mixed-methods study examining telehealth-supported resuscitation in rural New South Wales. Her work aims to improve the safety, usability and implementation of virtual models of emergency care for rural and remote communities. Katherine is also involved in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education, simulation, curriculum design and research capacity building, with a strong commitment to clinically relevant, practice-based research.