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List of the most influential people in Nursing,

#151

Daniel Pesut

#117500

Overall Influence

Daniel J. Pesut is an American nurse educator, academic, researcher and coach. He is an Emeritus Professor of Nursing, Past Director of Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership, and Katherine R. and C. Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership at University of Minnesota.

#152

Jenny Carryer

#173749

Overall Influence

Jennifer Barbara Carryer is a New Zealand nursing academic. She is currently a full professor of nursing at the Massey University and executive director of the New Zealand College of Nurses. Academic career Carryer completed a PhD at Massey University in 1997, before joining the staff and rising to full professor in 2011. Her thesis was titled 'A feminist appraisal of the experience of embodied largeness: a challenge for nursing . Her research interests are nurse practitioners, chronic illness, obesity and gender.

#153

Mona Shattell

#151905

Overall Influence

Mona Shattell is an American professor of nursing. She is best known for her contributions to improving the mental health of vulnerable populations , developing psychiatric treatment environments, and promoting the voice of nursing in public dialogue.

#154

Ann Kolanowski

#175096

Overall Influence

Ann Marie Kolanowski is an American nurse. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from College Misericordia, followed by a master's degree at Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate from New York University. Kolanowski began teaching at Mercy Hospital and subsequently Luzerne County Community College prior to taking a tenured position at Wilkes College. She then joined the Medical College of Georgia faculty and later returned to Penn State, where she was appointed Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing in 2007.

#155

Donna M. Fick

#177136

Overall Influence

Donna Marie Fick is an American nurse. She obtained a bachelor's degree in nursing science at Berea College before earning a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati. Subsequently, Fick completed a doctorate at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing at Pennsylvania State University and editor of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing.

#156

Parveen Azam Ali

#162572

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Parveen Azam Ali is a British nurse and radio presenter of Pakistani origin who works at the University of Sheffield. She is Professor in Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health - Health Sciences School, Division of Nursing and Midwifery/Sheffield Teaching Hospitals/Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals. She was an associate editor of Nursing Open until 2021, a contributor to The Conversation and a presenter on LinkFM. She was a founding member of The Lancet Commission on Nursing. In 2020 she became the editor-in-chief of International Nursing Review the society journal...

#157

Dorothea Orem

#167464

Overall Influence

1914 - 2007 (93 years)

Dorothea Elizabeth Orem , born in Baltimore, Maryland, was a nursing theorist and creator of the self-care deficit nursing theory, also known as the Orem model of nursing. Education Orem received a nursing diploma from Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C. She also attended Catholic University of America, earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education in 1939 and a Master of Science in Nursing Education in 1945.

#158

Susan J. Pressler

#177923

Overall Influence

Susan J. Pressler is an American cardiovascular researcher and nurse. She is the Susan Rearhard Endowed Chair in Nursing and Director of the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness at the Indiana University School of Nursing.

#159

Deborah Watkins Bruner

#178501

Overall Influence

Deborah Watkins Bruner is an American researcher, clinical trialist, and academic. She is the senior vice president for research at Emory University. Her research focus is on patient reported outcomes, symptom management across cancer sites, sexuality after cancer treatment, and effectiveness of radiotherapy modalities. Bruner's research has been continually funding since 1998, with total funding of her research exceeding $180 million. She is ranked among the top five percent of all National Institutes of Health-funded investigators worldwide since 2012, according to the Blue Ridge Institute...

#160

Ruth Malone

#102093

Overall Influence

Ruth E. Malone is an American tobacco control researcher and policy analyst. She is professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She was the editor-in-chief of Tobacco Control from 2009 to 2023. She holds the Mary Harms/Nursing Alumni Endowed Chair.

#161

Mark Hayter

#178755

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Mark Hayter is a British academic. He is Head of Nursing at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Nursing and on the editorial boards of Journal of School Nursing, and Nursing Outlook. Hayter is best known for his research on sexual health including psychosexual health, adolescent reproductive health, family planning, contraceptive counseling, and HIV. He was a founding member of The Lancet Commission on Nursing.

#162

Marion Jones

#179428

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

E Marion Jones is a New Zealand nursing academic. As of September 2018 she is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 1993 Masters' titled 'Shaping nursing praxis: some registered nurses' perceptions and beliefs of theory practice' from Massey University and a 2001 PhD titled 'Shaping team practice in the context of health reform opportunities, tensions, benefits' at Flinders University of South Australia, Jones moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor. Notable students include Judith McAra-Couper.

#163

Wendy Henderson

#169550

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Wendy A. Henderson is an American nurse practitioner, scientist, and academic administrator working as the director of the Center of Nursing Scholarship and Innovation at the University of Connecticut. She was previously a clinical investigator and lab chief of the National Institute of Nursing Research digestive disorders unit. Henderson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

#164

Uduak Archibong

#168511

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Uduak Emmanuel Archibong is a Professor of Diversity and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Bradford. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and a Fellow of the West African College of Nursing.

#165

Jacquelyn Taylor

#113176

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Jacquelyn Taylor is the Helen F. Petit Endowed Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing , where she is also the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Research on People of Color . Dr. Taylor is also the Founding Executive Director of the Kathleen Hickey Endowed Lectureship on Cardiovascular Care, the first endowed lectureship honoring a nurse scientist at Columbia University. Additionally, Dr. Taylor holds an administrative role as Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Taylor has been a trailblazer in ...

#166

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

#167344

Overall Influence

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown, CBE, MPhil, BA, RN, RM, DN , Cert Ed is a British nurse and researcher. She was president of the Royal College of Nursing . In July 2004, then-Minister for Health, John Hutton MP, launched a strategy for integrating refugee nurses into the health and social care workforce. The strategy was developed by the Refugee Nurses Task Force which she chaired. Hakesley-Brown was Special Education Projects Manager at the University of Glamorgan.

#167

Donna Schwartz-Barcott

#138070

Overall Influence

Donna Schwartz-Barcott is an American nurse and anthropologist. She is a professor of nursing at University of Rhode Island. Schwartz-Barcott earned a B.S. in nursing from University of Washington. She completed an M.S. in public health and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her 1978 dissertation was titled National family planning programs in developing nations: a theoretical and empirical examination of the adoption process. She is married to T. P. Barcott. They have a son, Rye Barcott.

#168

Rose Clarke Nanyonga

#168739

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Rose Clarke Nanyonga, , , is a Ugandan nurse, academic and current Vice Chancellor of Clarke International University, a private institution of higher education in Uganda. Background and education She was born in Bamunanika, in Luweero District, Buganda Region of Uganda, circa 1972. In 1989, after attending local primary schools, she migrated to Kiwoko, in present-day Nakaseke District, approximately to the north-west of Bamunanika.

#169

Jane Koziol-McLain

#181452

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Jane Koziol-McLain is an American-New Zealand nursing academic, specialising in domestic violence. She is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After an undergraduate at Loyola University in Chicago, Koziol-McLain did a 1989 MSc titled 'Variations in orthostatic vital signs in selected emergency department patients and then a 1999 PhD at the University of Colorado. After a post-doc fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, she moved to Auckland University of Technology, where she rose to professor in 2008.

#170

Rozella M. Schlotfeldt

#180088

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Rozella May Schlotfeldt was an American nurse, educator, and researcher. Originally from DeWitt, Iowa, Schlotfeldt received her BS in nursing from the University of Iowa in 1935. She continued her studies at the University of Chicago in 1947 before becoming the dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in 1960.

#171

Annette O'Connor

#115006

Overall Influence

Annette Marie Cormier O'Connor is a distinguished professor and professor emerita at the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Consumer Decision Support and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2018.

#172

Deborah Gross

#177454

Overall Influence

Deborah Gross is an American professor of nursing. She is best known for her contributions to improving positive parent-child relationships and preventing behavior problems in preschool children from low-income neighborhoods

#173

Marie Manthey

#179667

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Marie Schuber Manthey is an American nurse, author, and entrepreneur. She is recognized as one of the originators of Primary Nursing, an innovative system of nursing care delivery. Manthey was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 2015. The Living Legends designation honors individuals with "extraordinary contributions to the nursing profession, sustained over the course of their careers."

#174

Geraldine "Polly" Bednash

#176210

Overall Influence

Geraldine "Polly" Bednash is an American nurse practitioner. She is the former chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and former head of the association's legislative and regulatory advocacy programs as director of government affairs.

#175

Antonia M. Villarruel

#177699

Overall Influence

Antonia M. Villarruel is an American nurse. She has served as the Margaret Simon Bond Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing since 2014. Early life and education Villarruel was born into a Mexican–American family. Her grandparents had come to the United States and began their family in Michigan. Her mother Doña Amalia was a Detroit-born Mexican American while her father, Don Francisco, immigrated from Mexico at the age of 16. Her parents limited her career choice to teaching and nursing—with Villarruel choosing the latter. As such, she completed her Bachelor of Nursing degree from Nazareth College before working at the Children's Hospital of Michigan.

#176

Herdís Sveinsdóttir

Herdís Sveinsdóttir

#181463

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Herdís Sveinsdóttir is a professor in nursing and dean at the Faculty of Nursing of the University of Iceland. Professional experience Herdís completed a BS in nursing from the University of Iceland in 1981, a master's from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, in 1987 and a doctorate from the University of Umeå, Sweden, in 2000. Herdís began working at the University of Iceland in 1987 and is now a professor and dean at the Faculty of Nursing. In parallel with her work at the university, she was a registered nurse at the National University Hospital of Iceland from 1987 to 1...

#177

Phyllis Sharps

#184938

Overall Influence

Phyllis Sharps is the Elsie M. Lawler Endowed Chair, associate dean for community programs and initiatives, and a professor emerita at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Dr. Sharps is the director for the Center for Community Innovations and Scholarships. Her practice and research examine the consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV) among pregnant and parenting women, specifically the effects of IPV on the physical and mental health of pregnant women, infants, and very young children. She has published numerous articles on improving reproductive health and reducing violence...

#178

Tener Goodwin Veenema

#175621

Overall Influence

Tener Goodwin Veenema is an American nurse and a public health scientist. She is a Senior Scientist in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. In 2021, Goodwin Veenema was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

#179

Ginette Gosselin Ferszt

#176195

Overall Influence

Ginette Gosselin Ferszt is an American nurse. She is a professor of nursing and the coordinator of the graduate psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist program at University of Rhode Island.

#180

Toni Hoffman

#50915

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Toni Ellen Hoffman is a senior nurse who was made a Member of the Order of Australia and awarded the 2006 Australian of the Year Local Hero Award. She took on the role of whistleblower in informing Queensland Politician Rob Messenger about Jayant Patel, a surgeon who was the subject of the Morris Inquiry and later the Davies Commission. She originally began to raise doubts about the ability of Patel with hospital management and other staff. Both doctors and surgeons who were familiar with his work had also been deeply concerned.

#181

Richard Garfield

#169630

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Richard M. Garfield is the Henrik H. Bendixen Professor Emeritus of Clinical International Nursing, Professor Emretus of Clinical Population and Family Health, and Special Lecturer at Columbia University School of Nursing.

#182

Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow

#128183

Overall Influence

Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow is an American nurse, academic, author and researcher. She is a dean of school of nursing, vice provost for research and a professor at Duquesne University. Glasgow has authored over 100 articles and book chapters. She is the co-author of four books, including Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Education: An Essential Guide, DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice, and Legal Issues Confronting Today's Nursing Faculty: A Case-Study Approach. She has received the American Journal of Nursing Book-of-the-Year Award for her two of these books.

#183

Janie Mason

#182428

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Elizabeth Anne Mason is a nurse, educator and curator who has worked in the Northern Territory of Australia for most of her adult life. Education Mason trained for her general nursing training at Prince Henry’s Hospital Melbourne and midwifery at Queen Victoria Hospital Melbourne. She came to the Territory in 1964 with her husband Jon and worked as the nurse at Batchelor. This was followed by midwifery at Darwin Hospital and five years on Gove Peninsula. Immediately following Cyclone Tracy she earned a third certificate in infant health nursing at Tresillian Sydney.

#184

Karen Cox

#129049

Overall Influence

Karen Cox is a British Registered Nurse and academic. She is currently the Vice Chancellor of University of Kent. She was a Professor of Cancer and Palliative Care, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. She was one of the main drivers behind the 'Project Transform' there, which was highly controversial and led to a public apology of the university to its staff. Since 1 August 2017, she has served as the sixth Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent.

#185

Linda Norman

#182259

Overall Influence

Linda Norman is an American nurse and academic administrator. Norman completed bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing at the University of Virginia, followed by a doctor of nursing science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to succeeding Colleen Conway-Welch as dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in 2013, she had spent 22 years at Vanderbilt University, where she taught as Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing. In 2021, she stepped down as dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and on July 1, 2021, was named Dean Emerita, Vanderbilt University ...

#186

Ruth Northway

#178358

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Ruth Northway is a British nurse and nursing academic specialising in learning disabilities. She is a professor of learning disability nursing at the University of South Wales. Biography Northway, who is from Llantrisant in Mid Glamorgan, Wales, was born in 1961 and educated at Teignmouth Grammar School. She decided to become a nurse because she "enjoyed working with people with learning disabilities and this was the best way that [she] could do it", and subsequently spent some time as a learning disability nurse. In 1989, she started going into nurse education. In 1994, she graduated from t...

#187

Erla Kolbrún Svavarsdóttir

#186497

Overall Influence

Erla Kolbrún Svavarsdóttir is a Professor in the School of Health Sciences within the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Iceland and Director of the family nursing section in a connected position at Landspítali University Hospital. Erla Kolbrún has for decades placed an emphasis on development of teaching in family nursing, in addition to developing and testing measuring instruments and therapeutic research in the field of family nursing and researching violence in intimate relationships and adaptation of individuals and family members to acute or long-term physical and mental illnesses/...

#188

Adejoke Ayoola

#183310

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Adejoke Bolanle Ayoola is a Nigerian-American academic and nursing researcher at Calvin University. Education Adejoke studied at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, earning BSN and MSN degrees in 1991 and 1998 respectively. She moved to the United States in 2001 to further her education, earning a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, in 2007.

#189

Vincent Salyers

#182532

Overall Influence

Vincent Salyers is an American professor of nursing. He is best known for his contributions to intersections between technology, curriculum design, clinical practice and inter-professional education.

#190

Ernest Grant

#186527

Overall Influence

Ernest Grant is an American nurse and educator living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 2018, he began serving as the 36th president of the American Nurses Association . Notably, he is the first male to serve in this position. One of his goals has been to encourage diversity in nursing. Since being elected, the percentage of male nurses has increased. He also serves as adjunct faculty for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.

#191

Dave Holmes

#180662

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Dave Holmes is a Canadian professor of nursing, researcher, and author based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His research and writing are focused in the fields of public health, forensic nursing, critical theory, epistemology, law, ethics, psychiatric nursing, correctional nursing, the sociopolitical aspects of nursing, sexuality, and public health nursing.

#192

Terryann Clark

#169180

Overall Influence

Terryann Coralie Clark, known as TC, is a New Zealand Māori nursing academic, and as of 2023 is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in Māori health, adolescent wellbeing and mental and sexual health.

#193

Cynthia Barnes-Boyd

#140040

Overall Influence

1953 - 2017 (64 years)

Cynthia "Cee" Barnes-Boyd was an American academic administrator, professor, and nurse. She was the director of the Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships at the University of Illinois Chicago , and executive director of the University of Illinois Mile Square Health Center. She was a clinical associate professor of community health at the UIC College of Nursing, and a clinical associate professor of community health sciences at the UIC School of Public Health.

#194

Marianne Mathewson-Chapman

#185857

Overall Influence

Marianne Mathewson-Chapman is a career nurse and retired major general in the United States Army National Guard. She was the first female to be promoted to the rank of major general in the Army National Guard.

#195

Sheridan Miyamoto

#186949

Overall Influence

Sheridan Whalen Miyamoto is an American forensic nurse practitioner and researcher. She is an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. In August 2020, Miyamoto was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

#196

Bridgette Brawner

#177046

Overall Influence

Bridgette M. Rice is a nurse researcher and professor at Villanova University's M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing where she is the Richard and Marianne Kreider Endowed Professor in Nursing for Vulnerable Populations. She is known for her work on interventions to promote health equity in marginalized populations, with particular emphasis on HIV/STI prevention, mental health promotion, and mitigating negative neighborhood-level influences on health and well-being.

#197

Jennie R. Joe

#85281

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Jennie R. Joe (born 1941) is an American academic, medical anthropologist, and fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Initially trained as a nurse, she was one of the health clinic workers during Occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. She is a professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Joe was one of the inaugural board members for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and serves on the board of the Urban Indian Health Commission. She graduated from the University of New Mexico as a public health ...

#198

Debra J. Barksdale

#190812

Overall Influence

Dean of the School of Nursing and Professor in Family and Community Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Barksdale was the first Black faculty member to achieve the rank of Full Professor in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Nursing, where she led both the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program for thirteen years. In 2010, Dr. Barksdale was appointed to the Board of Governors for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) under the Obama Administration. Dr. Barksdale is a Fellow of the American ...

#199

Maureen Markle-Reid

#192001

Overall Influence

Maureen Francis Markle-Reid is a Canadian nurse. As a Full professor in the McMaster School of Nursing and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, she oversaw numerous efforts to improve the quality of life for seniors moving from hospitals to home.

#200

Mary Adelaide Nutting

Mary Adelaide Nutting

1858 - 1948 (90 years)

Mary Adelaide Nutting was a Canadian nurse, educator, and pioneer in the field of hospital care. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University's first nurse training program in 1891, Nutting helped to found a modern nursing program at the school. In 1907, she became involved in an experimental program at the new Teachers College at Columbia University. Ascending to the role of chair of the nursing and health department, Nutting authored a vanguard curriculum based on preparatory nursing education, public health studies, and social service emphasis. She served as president of a variety of cou...

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