Eileen Sullivan-Marx is Dean of the

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, the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of Nursing (since 2012) and president of the

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since October 2019 (President-elect from 2017 until 2019).

Education

Sullivan-Marx earned a BSN in 1976 from the

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, and an MS (1980) from the University of Rochester School of Nursing as a family health nurse practitioner and a

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from the

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in 1995.

Career

Sullivan-Marx was the associate dean for practice & community affairs at the

. For eleven years, she was the American Nurses Association representative (the first nurse to do so) to the

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’s Resource Based Relative Value Update Committee.

Awards

*International Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society Best of Image Research Award (1993) *Hippensteel Founders Award for Excellence in Practice Award (2011) *Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award (2013) *VillageCare Award Distinguished Service Award in 2016.

Publications

Innovative collaborations: a case study for academic owned nursing practiceDirections for the Development of Nursing Knowledge

References

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