SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal Margaret Dimond Named Aljoya Professor in Aging   Margaret Dimond   After an extensive nationwide search, Dr. Margaret Dimond has been named the Aljoya Endowed Professor in Aging. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing since 1984, Dimond is a nurse sociologist with a special interest in chronic illness and aging. She is the author of Chronic Illness Across the Life Span, winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, and previously held the position of Rosenstadt Professor of Health Research at the University of Toronto. Dimond was the first nurse researcher to receive a major research grant from the National Institute on Aging. Other awards for research or training have come from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Nursing, and the Administration on Aging. Dimond has published numerous articles on transitions in later life, including forced residential relocation, adapting to loss and grief, and end-of-life care. She has written extensively on ways to improve quality of life through better access to health care, improved diagnoses for depression, and stronger social support systems. A professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems since 1988, Dimond serves as a mentor to faculty and graduate students and is an internationally recognized speaker on gerontological nursing. Dean Emeritus Rheba de Tornyay, for whom the School's de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging is named, lauded Dimond as "an accomplished nurse researcher who has devoted her distinguished career to the study and teaching of gerontologic nursing." 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. It seeks to advance knowledge related to healthy aging. The Almos have been generous friends and partners with the School of Nursing over the years, particularly in their collaborative relationship with the ERA Care community of retirement facilities. Return to Headlines   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195