To the School of Nursing Community,
I am so thrilled to announce that Dr. Mary D. Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN, the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and the Director of NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health has been chosen by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) as the 2010 winner of the Policy Luminary Award. This award was established in 2009 to recognize outstanding nursing leaders for their contributions to public policy.
Dr. Naylor was selected because of her distinguished research program in transitional care, the findings that have provided the evidence for quality care for individuals and families in health care transitions, but most of all for her influence on health care policy. She has distinguished herself through her advocacy, articulate testimony at many levels including U.S. Senate hearings and incredible national presence in the care of the elders.
Dr. Naylor is nationally and internationally recognized for her program of research on patients in transition. Since 1988, her multidisciplinary research team has been testing and refining a model of transitional care delivered by APNs in collaboration with patients’ physicians. Major findings from these trials have been published in Nursing Research, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of the American Geriatric Society. They have also been featured in national media coverage by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Consumer Reports.
Over the years, Dr. Naylor has forged and formed partnerships with leaders of several health care centers and insurable companies are now adopting Dr. Naylor’s vision for the care of the elderly and chronically ill. Dr. Naylor continues to refine the transitional model of care as well as develop evidence of its outcomes for other high risk populations such as clients with Alzheimers Disease and young adults with serious physical injuries.
Dr. Naylor is the second person to receive this significant recognition. The first recipient of this award was Dr. Mary Wakefield, Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration. The award is presented annually at the AACN Fall Semiannual Meeting.
Please join me in congratulating Mary for this national recognition of her policy work.
Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, DrPS(hon), FAAN
Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing
Professor of Nursing and Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing
Claire M. Fagin Hall
http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/
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