There's a reason

so many UVA Nursing faculty are tapped as presidents and leaders for such a plethora of key local, regional, and national nursing and healthcare organizations: their voice, their intellect, their passion, and their keen ability to bridge the chasm of political divide as nurses.

And though service takes these UVA nursing faculty well beyond the boundaries of the classroom, their students and mentees, of course, can’t help but sit up, take note, and be inspired.

Leadership, it turns out, is learnable.

 

10
number of presidents and past-presidents who make UVA their academic home
27
number of faculty who lead external organizations
16
faculty who are organizations’ board members
6
international leadership positions held
25
national and regional positions held

UVA Nursing Presidents and Past-Presidents

 

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Kenneth White, PhD, AGACNP-BC, ACHPN, FACHE, FAAN

University of Virginia Medical Center Professor of Nursing
Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships & Innovation at the School of Nursing

President-Elect, American Academy of Nursing
2019–2021 (White assumes the AAN presidency from 2021-2023)

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Katrina Debnam, UVA School of Nursing

Katrina Debnam, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Chair, Early Career Preventionists Network (ECPN) Steering Committee, Society for Prevention Research
2019–2020

Tomeka Dowling, UVA School of Nursing

Tomeka Dowling, DNP, MS, RN

Assistant Professor of Nursing
Coordinator, RN to BSN Program

President, Virginia League of Nursing
2018–2020

Arlene Keeling, UVA School of Nursing

Arlene Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor Emerita

President, American Association for the History of Nursing
2018–2020

Ishan Williams, UVA School of Nursing

Ishan Williams, PhD, FGSA

Associate Professor of Nursing
Assistant Dean for Diversity & Inclusion

President, Southern Gerontological Society
2019–2020

Pam Cipriano, UVA School of Nursing

Pam Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dean, University of Virginia School of Nursing
Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing

Past President, American Nurses Association
2014–2018

Emily-Drake, UVA School of Nursing

Emily Drake, PhD, RN, CNL, FAAN

Professor of Nursing
Director, Clinical Nurse Leader

Past President, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
2017–2018

Dorrie Fontaine, Dean Emerita, UVA School of Nursing

Dorrie Fontaine, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dean Emerita

Past President, Virginia Colleges of Nursing
2010–2018

Mary Gibson, UVA School of Nursing

Mary Gibson, PhD, RN

Professor Emerita

Past President, American Association for the History of Nursing
2016–2018

Clareen Wiencek, UVA School of Nursing

Clareen Wiencek, RN, PhD, ACNP, ACHPN

Associate Professor of Nursing
Advanced Practice Program Director, MSN and DNP Programs

Past President, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
2017–2018