2008

2007

• Dr. Aiken listed on Modern Healthcare's Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2007.
   
• Dr. Sean Clarke received the Dean's Award for Undergraduate Teaching 2007.
   
• Dr. Nancy Hanrahan was awarded the first Annual Undergraduate Mentored Research Award with Penn Nursing student Lakeetra McClain and was awarded the Dean's Award for Undergraduate Scholarly Mentorship.
   
• Pre-doctoral fellow Ann Kutney Lee won the Ann W. Burgess Endowed Student Award for a dissertation in psychiatric nursing that holds significant promise as a contribution to nursing knowledge.
   
• April 11, 2007, Linda H. Aiken received The Claire M. Fagin Distinguished Researcher Award.

2006

• Associate Director, Dr. Sean P. Clarke, was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing on November 11, 2006.  He was elected for his national and international work on the impact of hospital organizational environment and nurse staffing on patient mortality and other adverse events, and occupational health issues for nurses.

Dr. Clarke and his wife with Dean Meleis at the AAN Induction Banquet
 

• Post-doctoral Fellow, Dr. Joy Buck was designated as the 2006 Anne Zimmerman/ANF Scholar to research the development of hospice and palliative nursing in the U.S.,1985- present, on October 20,2006.

• Dr. Sean Clarke was appointed a Term Chair position and will serve as the Class of 1965 25th Reunion Professor of Nursing.

• Director, Dr. Linda H. Aiken was awarded the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, funded by the Baxter International Foundation and administered by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, in Seattle on June 24, 2006.  This prize is the highest honor in the field, given for significant and lasting contributions to research and policy.

Pictured above: Stephen Shortell, UC Berkeley; Karen Davis,
Commonwealth Fund; Dr. Aiken, and Robert Blendon, Harvard
 

• Dr. Aiken received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center on May 25, 2006.

• Dr. Clarke receives the Junior Faculty Research Award from the Biobehavioral and Health Sciences Division at the School of Nursing.

• Dr. Aiken is number 20 on Modern Healthcare's Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2006.

• Dr. Nancy Hanrahan received the Faculty Teaching Award from the School of Nursing on May 9, 2006, recognizing her as an exemplary teacher, mentor and researcher.

• Dr. Aiken received an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Florida, in Gainesville on May 5, 2006.

• Dr. Aiken was awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award for Sustained National Leadership in Research, by Research!America on March 21, 2006.

• Dr. Aiken earned the AcademyHealth 2005 "Distinguished Investigator Award" which "recognizes investigators who have made significant and lasting contributions to the field of health services research through scholarship and teaching, advancement of science and methods and leadership."

From left to right: J. Cimiotti, D. Sloane, M. Powell, J. Silber, L. Aiken, C. Friese, Y. Xue, J. Bellot, A. Gerolamo, R. Cheung, N. Hanrahan, A. Kutney
 

• Dr. Jeannie Cimiotti receives the Blue Ribbon Abstract Award at the APIC conference in Baltimore, MD.
   

• Dr. Aiken is named in Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Women in Healthcare.
   

• Post-doctoral Fellow Dr. Joy Buck was presented with the Phyllis J. Verhonick Distinguished Research Award from the University of Virginia.

• Dr. Sean Clarke was named Dahlberg Visiting Scholar, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, LaCrosse, WI

• Dr. Linda Aiken was listed at number 10 on Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.

• Dr. Aiken recieved the AACN John P. McGovern Award

• Dr. Linda Aiken received the Nurse Researcher Award, American Organization of Nurse Executives, 2004

Linda H. Aiken received the Individual Codman Award, Joint Commission  on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, 2003

• American Academy of Nursing Media Award, 2003, for press coverage of "Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction," JAMA, 2002

• Article-of-the-Year Award for best health services research article, AcademyHealth, 2003 for "Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction," JAMA 288/16;1987-1993, 2002

• The Dr. Klaus and Mary Hummeler Research Prize, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, for "Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction," JAMA , 2002

• Dr. Sean Clarke was honored with the Vivian Littlefield Endowed Lectureship, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Dr. Jeannie Cimiotti receives the Blue Ribbon Abstract Award at the APIC Conference in San Antonio, TX.

• Linda H. Aiken was named Theodore Roosevelt Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science.