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America's No. 1 Nursing School
For more than 20 years, the University of Washington School of Nursing has been ranked America's No. 1 nursing school, including 17 years atop the U.S. News and World Report list, which began ranking nursing schools
in 1993.
Emphasizing Research
and Teaching
Six degree programs, multiple specialties, continuing education opportunities and world renowned research are part of the UW School of Nursing's goal of addressing society's most pressing challenges in health care. Students: Oliver Liscano and Joann Ucol.
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The School of Nursing is grateful for the support of its outstanding alumni, friends and community partners. Many participate as clinical preceptors, advisers and volunteers, and provide financial support for our students, faculty and programs.
Recognizing Leaders in Nursing
Every year the UW School of Nursing honors local and national leaders for their important contributions to the field of nursing and pays tribute to our community's most accomplished nurses and health care leaders at the annual Nurses Recognition Banquet.
Advancing Nursing Research
With a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and patient care the UW School of Nursing is the No. 3 Nursing School in research funding from the NIH, with six centers of excellence and over 185 active and pending research projects.
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Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, RN Associate Professor Associate Professor, Global Health, Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems Box 357266 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7266 Email Address: akurth@u.washington.edu |
| Research: Dr. Kurth studies sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV. She is interested specifically in developing patient and clinician tools to improve STI/HIV prevention and disease self-management. Her current work focuses on patient-centered informatics and behavioral epidemiology, in studies conducted in the US and internationally. These studies evaluate information and communication technology-based, as well as nurse-delivered, approaches to HIV/STI risk reduction. | |
| Teaching: Dr. Kurth mentors undergraduate and graduate students (theses and scholarly projects). She teaches Infectious Disease/Infection Control Nursing (NURS504) and Sociobehavioral and Prevention Research Methods (NMETH515/EPI 549), and directs the multidisciplinary UW Graduate Certificate Program in HIV and STIs. As faculty for the Seattle STD Prevention Training Center, she lectures on sexual history-taking and risk reduction counseling to clinicians throughout the Pacific Northwest. | |
| Service: Dr. Kurth has served as president of the national Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, and locally serves on the medical advisory board of Lifelong AIDS Alliance. She is a Coordinator for the UW Center for AIDS Research Sociobehavioral and Prevention Research Core, which supports research in 1) HIV prevention interventions, 2) treatment adherence for individuals living with HIV, and 3) transmission dynamics modeling. | |
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