Nursing Leaders Articles

Acute care nurse practitioner and nurse informaticist Joanna DeLong draws on work and life experience to manage the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center clinic at the Parnassus campus.

Doctoral student Douglas Long confronts the challenges of providing quality health care to inmates in San Quentin, one of America’s most famous prisons.

Catherine Waters has spent her entire career seeking evidence-based approaches for erasing the inequities in health and health care that plague underserved communities. Being named the first Sally Bates Endowed Chair in Health Disparities acknowledges her exemplary work and gives her a platform to expand it.

By creating the Sally Bates Endowed Chair in Health Disparities, pioneering neurosurgeon Ernest Bates honors the memory of his mother and the value of nurses and nurse scientists in the essential effort to erase health inequities.

Nurse practitioner Ann Reppun inspires advanced practice nursing and medical students to bring their passion and knowledge to caring for the underserved.

Just two years young, UC San Francisco School of Nursing’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership program is already shaping a new generation of innovative and compassionate health care leadership. Louis Ward is one such leader.

Angel Chen – one of the first interprofessional inductees into the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators – argues that now is the time for clinical teaching environments to fully embrace interprofessional collaborative practice.

UC San Francisco School of Nursing Assistant Professor of Sociology Catherine Bliss examines the way genomic science intersects with ideas of race and how it impacts social justice and health.

PhD student Linda Darlene Gregory is using her research and experience to help find ways to increase diversity in scientific research.

The American Academy of Nursing recognizes Marylin Dodd as a Living Legend, for her seminal contributions to symptom management and patient self-care.

Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita Kathleen Dracup is one of the UCSF Medal winners for 2015.

Two UCSF military veterans tell the stories of their service.