Faculty: FAAN Faculty

FAAN membership (View American Academy of Nursing's Criteria for Selection for Fellowship) is awarded by invitation as recognition of outstanding accomplishments within the nursing profession and to health care. It offers an opportunity to work with other leaders in health care in addressing the issues of the day. The following active and emeritus faculty are fellows of the American Academy of Nursing:


David G. Allen, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Philosophy of science, critical and feminist theory, psychosocial nursing theory, shared governance, decentralization, correctional mental health
Email Address: dgallen@u.washington.edu

Kathryn E. Barnard, PhD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Ecological factors of child development
Email Address: kathyb@u.washington.edu

Basia Belza, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Healthy aging, evidence-based health promotion programs, physical activity, public health interventions and policy
Dr. Belza is the Aljoya Endowed Professor in Aging
Email Address: basiab@u.washington.edu

Jeanne Quint Benoliel, PhD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Email Address:

Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, CNAA, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Public and community health care systems, legislative policy and practice, accountability measures in organizational performance.
Email Address: bobbieb@u.washington.edu

Donna Berry, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN
Affiliate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Oncology, cancer pain
Email Address: donnalb@u.washington.edu

Susan T. Blackburn, PhD, FAAN, RN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: High-risk infants and their families, infant caregiving interactions and environments
Email Address: sblackbn@u.washington.edu

Eleanor F. Bond, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Critical care nursing
Dr. Bond is the Susan and Michael Cummings Term Professor in Nursing
Email Address: rebond@u.washington.edu

Elizabeth Bridges, PhD, RN, CCNS, FCCM, FAAN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Hemodynamic monitoring, critical care in unique and austere environments
Email Address: ebridges@u.washington.edu

Marie-Annette Brown, PhD, ARNP, RN, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Health promotion and Lifestyle strategies (light, exercise and vitamins) for treatment of mild depression; family responses to life threatening illness; grief and loss, end of life care
Email Address: mabrown@u.washington.edu

Helen Kogan Budzynski, PhD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Stress response: cognitive/physiologic interface in chronic dysfunctions and self-management teaching
Email Address: hbudz@u.washington.edu

Barbara B. Cochrane, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Older women's health, gerontology and healthy aging, postmenopausal hormone therapy, symptoms and symptom management, psychosocial oncology and cardiovascular nursing
Dr. Cochrane is the de Tornyay Term Professor for Healthy Aging
Email Address: barbc@u.washington.edu

Susanna L. Cunningham, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Cardiovascular risk factor management and reduction
Email Address: susannac@u.washington.edu

Rheba de Tornyay, EdD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health services, nursing education
Email Address: rheba@u.washington.edu

Ardith Doorenbos, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Palliative care, geroonoclogy, culturally congruent care
Email Address: doorenbo@u.washington.edu

Cynthia Dougherty, PhD, ARNP, FAHA, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Adaptations of individuals and families to cardiac illness
Email Address: cindyd@u.washington.edu

Leona L. Eggert, PhD, RN, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Prevention science: Interpersonal and environmental interventions for preventing drug involvement, depression, and suicidal behaviors among high-risk adolescents.
Email Address: eggert@u.washington.edu

Sue T. Hegyvary, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Health services research, facility organization, institutional quality assurance, nursing management
Email Address: hegyvary@u.washington.edu

Margaret M. Heitkemper, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Gastrointestinal physiology, enteral nutrition, geriatrics
Email Address: heit@u.washington.edu

Marcia  Killien, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Women's health, reproductive decision making, work and family health
Email Address: killien@u.washington.edu

Carol A. Landis, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Sleep, sleep disturbance and pain.
Email Address: calandis@u.washington.edu

Frances Marcus Lewis, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Complex organizational analysis, evaluation research, psychosocial factors in chronic illness
Dr. Lewis is the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor
Email Address: fmlewis@u.washington.edu

Pamela Mitchell, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Neuroscience nursing, care delivery systems, clinical & translational research.
Email Address: pmitch@u.washington.edu

Sandra Adams Motzer, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN (Emeritus)
Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Women's responses to chronic health disturbances.
Email Address: underhil@u.washington.edu

Shirley Murphy, PhD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Normal populations who experience traumatic events including violent death bereavement and exposure to mass disasters, intervention studies.
Email Address: samurphy@u.washington.edu

Lois Price Spratlen, PhD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Mediation, sexual harassment, perceived workplace mistreatment, urban and ethnic factors in health and illness
Email Address: lprice@u.washington.edu

Mary K. Salazar, EdD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Occupational and environmental health, health and safety of agricultural workers and their families.
Email Address: msalazar@u.washington.edu

Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN
Dean, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health Work Force and Health Services Research, International Health Policy and Administration, Public Health Nursing
Email Address: msalmon@u.washington.edu

Karen G. Schepp, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Coping efforts of families with hospitalized children, family, child, and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Email Address: kschepp@u.washington.edu

Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, CNRN, FAAN
Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Injury; traumatic brain injury; geriatrics; measurement and improvement of outcome; evidence-based practice/guideline development
Email Address: hilairet@u.washington.edu

Deborah Ward, RN, PhD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Innovative approaches to nursing education, re-shaping the US health care delivery system.
Email Address: deborah.ward@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Carolyn H. Webster-Stratton, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Parenting, intervention programs for behaviorally disturbed children
Email Address: cws@u.washington.edu

Joie Whitney, PhD, RN, CWCN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Wound healing
Dr. Whitney is the Harborview Medical Center Endowed Professor in Critical Care
Email Address: joiewhit@u.washington.edu

Vivian C. Wolf-Wilets, PhD, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Curriculum development, stress management, theory development and memory
Email Address: vwolfw@u.washington.edu

Susan L. Woods, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN (Emeritus)
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Hemodynamic measurement, circadian rhythmicity, cardiovascular nursing.
Email Address: slwoods@u.washington.edu

Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: women's health, menstrual cycle, menopause transition

Email Address: nfwoods@u.washington.edu

Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Health systems and patient outcomes Interprofessional education, practice and research (developing faculty to be expert in mentoring students from various health professions). Prevention and management of deep vein thrombosis. Clinical guidelines and outcomes research for venous thromboembolism. Use of simulation and other educational technologies in team-based training.
Email Address: brendaz@u.washington.edu

Phyllis Arn Zimmer, MN, FAAN
Lecturer, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Primary health care, health policy, health promotion, nurse practioner education/role development, STD/AIDS risk assessment
Email Address: pzimmer@u.washington.edu

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