Keryln is the Professor of Primary Health Care and Community Nursing at Silver Chain Group and Curtin University, Western Australia. She is the Deputy Lead of the Curtin Medical Research Institute Inflammation, Infection and Wounds Domain and Lead of the Wounds Group. She is a lead investigator on WHAM research projects, delivers undergraduate and postgraduate wound curriculum and supervises post graduate students.

Keryln has extensive clinical experience in wound and ostomy care and is committed to research and education within the domains. Keryln Chairs the Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance and was a Guideline Governance Group member for the development of the International Pressure Injury Guideline 2014 and 2019 (and the forthcoming 2025 edition). She co-ordinates the Curtin University Postgraduate Program of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Practice in Australia and Singapore. She was appointed a Fellow of Wounds Australia in 2006 and a Life Member of the Australian Association of Stomal Therapy Nurses in 2015. She was awarded a World Union of Wound Healing Societies Life Achievement Award in 2022 and the Western Australian Life-Time Achievement in Nursing Award in 2010. Keryln is a Churchill Fellow 1995. Keryln has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and texts.