SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal Margaret Dimond named School of Nursing's Aljoya Professor of Aging April 23, 2001 After an extensive nationwide search, Dr. Margaret Dimond has been named the first Aljoya Endowed Professor of Aging in the University of Washington School of Nursing. Dimond has been a professor in the school's Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems since 1988, and is recognized as a world class scholar in aging. "Professor Dimond has raised questions of utmost importance to gerontology throughout her career," said Dean of Nursing Nancy Fugate Woods. "Her most recent research focuses on the consequences of environmental modulation for reducing agitated behavior in nursing home residents with dementia. As the population of elders grows dramatically over the next few decades, studies of this sort will be essential." Dimond has been a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing since 1984. Before coming to the UW in 1988, she was the Rosenfeldt Professor of Health Research at the University of Toronto and was a professor of nursing at the University of Utah. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology with a special emphasis on chronic illness and aging from the University of Wisconsin. Dimond was the first nurse researcher to receive a major research grant from the National Institute on Aging. Her current work studies the use of light to help regulate agitated behavior patterns in patients with dementia. She is recognized internationally for her work on many topics relevant to the care of the elderly. Those include forced residential relocation, adapting to loss and grief, and end-of-life care. The Aljoya Endowed Professorship was established by Eli and Rebecca Almo in tribute to Eli's parents, Jack and Lily Almo, and in memory of the members of the Almosnino and Aljoya families who perished in the Holocaust. The professorship is intended to advance knowledge related to healthy aging. Return to News and Events   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195