Sandie McCarthy
Alexandra Leigh McCarthy (known as Sandie) is a New Zealand nursing academic and as of September 2018 she was a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career. After a 2005 PhD titled " 'A rebellious distemper : a Foucaultian history of breast cancer to 1900' " at the Queensland University of Technology, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor. In early 2017 she was appointed head of the University School of Nursing.