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CAROLYN
WILLIAMS ASSUMES AACN PRESIDENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2000 -- Carolyn
A. Williams, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and professor at the University
of Kentucky College of Nursing, has assumed the presidency of
the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
Dr. Williams, who
has served as AACN president-elect since 1998, began her two-year
term as president at the conclusion of the Association's spring
annual meeting in Washington, D.C. As president, she will
lead the programs and policy initiatives of the organization
that is the national voice for university and four-year-college
education programs in nursing -- the nation's largest health
care profession.
"AACN enters the 21st
century with a rich record of leadership and innovations,
and is moving forward with a renewed commitment and new initiatives
to enhance the role of baccalaureate and higher-degree nursing
education in achieving the nation's health care goals," Dr.
Williams says. "To have been associated with this dynamic
organization since 1984 has been a wonderful professional
experience; to serve as president is a privilege and honor.
I look forward to working with the Association's committed
membership on AACN initiatives that are redefining the standard
of what nursing higher education should be."
Dr. Williams has been
dean at the University of Kentucky since 1984. Previously,
she held faculty positions at the University of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill and Emory University, including a joint appointment
as associate professor in the School of Nursing and in the
Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health
at UNC, and serving as professor and director of graduate
programs at the Emory University School of Nursing.
Dr. Williams' numerous
publications and presentations have focused on the processes
and outcomes of primary care, particularly the contributions
of nurses to primary care and the use of epidemiologic methods
in assessing the impact of primary care programs and public
health nursing. She currently is a member of the editorial
board of the International Journal of Nursing Studies,
has served as a reviewer for a number of professional publications,
and was assistant editor for research for AACN's Journal
of Professional Nursing.
A past president of
the American Academy of Nursing, having served in that role
from 1983-1985, Dr. Williams has been a member of several
prominent national advisory panels and commissions. Among
these are former posts as commissioner on the President's
Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and
Biomedical and Behavioral Research, appointed by President
Jimmy Carter; member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force of the Department of Health and Human Services; member
of the advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's
Teaching Nursing Home Program; and chair of the American Nurses
Association's Commission on Nursing Research.
Dr. Williams was elected
to the AACN Board of Directors in 1996. Within the Association,
she has chaired the Membership Committee, served as member
of the Research Committee and convener for the Nominating
Committee, and was a member of the Doctoral Conference Subcommittee.
Dr. Williams received
her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Texas Woman's
University and master's degree in public health nursing and
doctorate in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill.
The American Association of
Colleges of Nursing is the national voice for university and
four-year-college education programs in nursing. Representing
more than 580 member schools of nursing at public and private
institutions nationwide, AACN's educational, research, governmental
advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs
work to establish quality standards for bachelor's- and graduate-degree
nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement
those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve
health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate and
graduate nursing education, research, and practice. Web site:
http://www.aacn.nche.edu.
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CONTACT: Robert Rosseter
(202) 463-6930, x231
rrosseter@aacn.nche.edu
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