YSN names new associate deans
New Associate Dean of Research David Vlahov will join YSN in July. Dr. Vlahov is a nurse educator, internationally recognized expert on urban health among vulnerable populations, and innovative scientist who joins Yale from UCSF’s School of Nursing, where he served as dean for five years. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine (IOM) and of the American Academy of Nursing. Vlahov previously served on the nursing faculty at Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities, and was adjunct professor in the medical schools at Cornell, Mount Sinai, and New York University.
YSN has also named a new associate dean for finance and administration. Marcia Thomas was previously senior associate dean for planning, finance, and administration at the College of Global Public Health at New York University, where she was instrumental in the success of the college’s considerable student numbers growth, admissions, and recruitment efforts.
Nursing honor society recognition
Nancy Schmieder Redeker has been awarded the prestigious International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Award from Sigma Theta Tau International, and will be inducted in July. The award recognizes nurse researchers who “have achieved significant and sustained national and/or international recognition for their work and whose research has impacted the profession and the people it serves.” Dr. Redeker’s leadership and scientific innovation in the area of sleep-related research is globally recognized. She also serves as director of YSN’s Biobehavioral Laboratory.
YSN faculty on the bookshelf
Two YSN faculty have authored new books: Caring Matters Most by Mark Lazenby; and Nursing’s Leading Edges: Specialization, Credentialing, and Certification of RNs and APRNs by Lisa Summers (and C Bickford).
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