Dr. Linda Aiken is name the 2007 recipient of the
Claire M. Fagin Distinguished Researcher Award!

 

Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Fagin has dedicated her career to nursing science, health care, educational administration,                
and health policy. As Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (1977-1992),
Dr. Fagin launched a Doctor of Nursing Science program in 1978, then a PhD program in 1984;
and in 1980, opened the first privately funded Center for Nursing Research in the country. Dr. Fagin’s
own research on the relationship between the recovery of hospitalized children and their parents
"rooming in", received national attention and helped to permanently change attitudes and rules
about parental visitation in pediatric facilities. Her later research focused on cost-effectiveness
of nursing research and nurse practitioners and nursing home reform. Currently, Dr. Fagin is
Leadership Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita at Penn. In addition to her deanship,
Dr. Fagin served as the Interim President of the University from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994. 

  2007       Linda H. Aiken,  PhD, RN, FAAN, FRCN
                  Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing
                “Healing Hospitals: Improving Patient Outcomes at Home and Abroad”

  2006       Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, RN, FAAN
                  van Ameringen Professor in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
                “Safe Sex Saves Lives: Engaging the Global Community in HIV Prevention”

 2005       Neville E. Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN
                 Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology
               “Old Age Is Not a Diagnosis: Creating The Field Of Gerontology”

 2004       Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, RN, FAAN
                 Helen M. Shearer Term Professor in Nutrition
               “To Know Feeding Is To Know the Brain: Bio-Behavioral Research In High Risk Infants”

 2003       Mary D. Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN
                 Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology
                “Transitions In Health: Building Bridges Through Science”