School of Nursing

Coming soon.

New Faculty Appointments

• Shoshana Aronowitz, Assistant Professor
• Amanda Bettencourt, Assistant Professor
• Rebecca Clark, Clinician-Educator Assistant Professor
• Holly Harner, Practice Professor
• Hyejeong Hong, Assistant Professor
• Amy Lisanti, Research Assistant Professor
• Maria LoGrippo, Practice Associate Professor
• Halley Ruppel, Research Assistant Professor
• Laura Starbird, Assistant Professor

Faculty Promotions

• Pamela Cacchione, Clinician-Educator Professor
• Margaret Compton, Professor
• Cynthia Connolly, Professor
• Nancy Hodgson, Professor
• Sharon Irving, Clinician-Educator Associate Professor
• Catherine Mcdonald, Associate Professor
• Salimah Meghani, Professor
• Margaret Souders, Clinician-Educator Associate Professor

Honors

• Linda Aiken, 2020 American Academy of Nursing’s Living Legend
• Deborah Becker, 2021 Nursing Dean’s Award for Exemplary Professional Practice
• Dawn Bent, 2021 Nursing Outstanding Nurse Educator Award, Graduate Student Organization
• Kathryn Bowles, 2021 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award from the Gerontological Society of America
• Christine Bradway, 2020 Nursing Dean’s Award for Exemplary Professional Practice
• Bridgette Brawner, 2021 Diversity and Equity Award from the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses; 2021 Nursing Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching; American Nurses Association’s National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
• Margo Brooks-Carthon, named Tyson Family Endowed Term Chair for Gerontological Research
• Alison Buttenheim, named to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee to assess future prospects for the broader use of behavioral economics in public policy 2022; National Academy of Medicine ad hoc committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus
• Pamela Cacchione, 2021 Joseph T. Freeman Award from the Gerontological Society of America
• J. Margo Brooks Carthon. 2020 Penn Fellow
• Ariana Chao, 2020 Nursing Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Scholarly Mentorship; 2020 Rising Star Research Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society
• Charlene Compher, Norma M. Lang Award for Scholarly Practice and Policy
• Peggy Compton, 2021 Nursing Barbara J. Lowery Faculty Award, Doctoral Student Organization; Inducted to the International Nurse Research Hall of Fame 2020
• Martha Curley, 2021 Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine from the Society of Critical Care Medicine; 2022 Asmund S. Laerdal Memorial Lecture Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Jie Deng, 2022 Nursing Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching; awarded Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute grant 2021
• Monique Dowd, 2021 Nursing Undergraduate Award for Teaching, Student Nurses at Penn
• Julie Fairman, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program 2022
• Karen Glanz, appointed to NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Integration Working Group
• Mamie Guidera, 2021 Nursing Dean’s Award for MS/MSN/DNP Scholarly Mentorship
• Holly Harner, 2021 Nursing Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Advising; Afaf I. Meleis Director of the Center for Global Women’s Health
• Nancy Hodgson, 2021 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award from the Gerontological Society of America; 2021 Penn Fellow; 2022 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame inductee; Chair of Nursing’s Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences; Chair of the Clinical Management of Patients in community-Based Settings Study Section in the Center for Scientific Review of the NIH; named Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing 2021
• Sharon Irving, 2021 Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition; selected to serve on the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition’s (ASPEN) Board of Directors 2022
• Linda Jacobs, 2019 American Academy of Nursing Fellow
• Susan Keim, 2020 Nursing Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty
• Tanja Kral, named Ellen and Robert Kapito Endowed Professor in Nursing Science
• Eileen Lake, named Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology
• Karen Lasater, 2019 AcademyHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues’ New Investigator Award; 2022 Nursing Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Teaching, Student Nurses at Penn
• Jennie Greco Lattimer, 2022 Nursing Dean Outstanding Nurse Educator Award, Graduate Student Organization
• Jianghong Liu, named Marjorie O. Rendell Endowed Professor in Healthy Transitions
• Lea Ann Matura, Bayer’s Inaugural Pulmonary Hypertension Accelerated Bayer Award
• Catherine McDonald, named Dr. Hildegarde Reynolds Endowed Term Professor of Primary Care Nursing
• Salimah Meghani, 2021 Distinguished Nursing Researcher Award from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association; 2021 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
• Mary Naylor, 2021 Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Nell J. Watts Lifetime Achievement in Nursing Award
• Aleaha Peoples, 2021 Nursing Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
• Adriana Perez, 2020 Nursing Outstanding Nurse Educator Award, Graduate Student Organization; 2021 Research Recognition Award from the National Hispanic Council on Aging
• Jennifer Pinto-Martin, University Ombuds 2020
• Beth Quigley, 2022 Nursing Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
• Susan Renz, 2020 Nursing Dean’s Award for Exemplary Citizenship; 2021 Distinguished Gerontological Nursing Educator Award from the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence
• Therese Richmond, appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
• Amy Sawyer, 2020 Nursing Dean’s Award for MS/MSN/DNP Scholarly Mentorship
• Connie Scanga, 2022 Nursing Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
• Kerry Shields, 2022 Nursing Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
• Diane Spatz, 2019 Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nurses Award of Excellence; 2021 Nursing Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Scholarly Mentorship; appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Work Group on Inclusion of Pregnant and Lactating Persons in Clinical Trials; elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation
• Robin Stevens, American Public Health Association’s Early Career Award
• Anne Teitelman, 2020 Nursing Barbara J. Lowery Faculty Award, Doctoral Student Organization
• Maria Torchia LoGrippo, 2020 Fellow of the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education
• Kimberly Trout, 2019 American Academy of Nursing Fellow
• Connie Ulrich, 2021 Hastings Center Fellow
• Antonia Villarruel, 2020 Globy Award from the Global Philadelphia Association; 2021 Ohtli Award from the Institute for Mexicans Abroad; Chair of the second phase of the National Academy of Medicine’s Culture of Health Program Advisory Committee
• Maria White, 2021 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence