Each year every UC campus selects a Presidential Chair to encourage new or interdisciplinary program development or to enhance quality in existing academic programs at that campus. Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN, is this year’s UCSF appointee. She visited campus at the end of October providing a keynote address on October 29 at the Laurel Heights auditorium.
Biography of Dr. Mary Naylor
Dr. Naylor is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. For the past two decades, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve the quality of care, decrease unnecessary hospitalizations and reduce health care costs for vulnerable community-based elders. For the past eight years, Dr. Naylor served as the National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, which was aimed at generating, disseminating and translating research to understand how nurses contribute to quality patient care. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, is a member of the Leadership Consortium on Value & Science-Driven Health Care, and co-chairs the Care Culture and Decision-making Innovation Collaborative. Dr. Naylor also is a member of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees, RAND Health Board of Advisors, the National Quality Forum Board of Directors and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National Advisory Council. She was appointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in 2010.
UCSF Presidential Chair Keynote
Following an introduction from School of Nursing Dean David Vlahov, Dr. Naylor delivered her address, entitled “Transitional Care—A Journey from Evidence to Impact.” Throughout her presentation she shared her experience, research, and findings in connecting care systems for disparate populations. The audience listened intently and engaged in a lively conversation following the lecture on how nurses and others will best collaborate to accommodate changes associated with the Accountable Care Organization implementation.
Upcoming UCSF Presidential Chair Activities
The School of Nursing will host Dr. Mary Naylor for three residency periods as part of her appointment. She will be on campus again during January 20 - February 3, 2016, and May 31 - June 7, 2016. In her appointment as UCSF Presidential Chair, Dr. Naylor serves as a "catalyst" for interdisciplinary research, education, and practice with transitions in health and health care as a unifying theme, and will work with representatives from all UCSF schools and the health system.
The timing of her appointment could not be more fitting. Dr. Naylor is one of the world’s leaders in academic nursing with a global reputation for her scholarly work in interdisciplinary transitional care models. With this expertise UCSF is keen to learn and dialog with her as academic health centers make the transition to become Accountable Care Organizations, which can address care coordination for the elderly and those with chronic diseases. Dr. Naylor’s full perspective, keen research, and vast experience in education and policy settings will serve to advance the planning of clinical care, inter-professional education, and translational research at UCSF.
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