Eileen V Lake, PhD, RN, FAAN

Eileen T. Lake, PhD, RN, FAAN

Alumni Designation

PhD’99

Dr. Lake is the Jessie M. Scott Endowed Term Chair in Nursing and Health Policy and the Associate Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. She also holds the title of Professor of Nursing and the Professor of Sociology. With training in nursing administration, public policy, and sociology, Eileen T. Lake developed a foundational measure of nursing care performance to demonstrate nursing’s impact on patient outcomes: the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index. Read more about Dr. Lake at the following faculty profile link

Follow Dr. Lake on Twitter at: @EileenLake_Penn

Before Penn Nursing

  • MSN, University of Pennsylvania, 1997
  • MA, Georgetown University, 1986
  • BSN, Duke University, 1981

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