College of Nursing

Elizabeth McIntosh and Jerry Durham Endowed Lecture and Awards Ceremony

 

Thank you for joining us for this year's Elizabeth McIntosh and Jerry Durham Endowed Lecture!  Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN gave a presentation titled Nursing Leadership: From the Bedside to the Boardroom. 

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Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN

Joanne Disch is Clinical Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.  She received her BSN from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; her MSN in Cardiovascular Nursing from the University of Alabama in Birmingham; and her PhD in Nursing from the University of Michigan.

Dr Disch has served as a chief nurse executive in two major medical centers and held numerous national leadership positions, such as chair of the UHC Chief Nurse Executive Council; president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses;  and board member and chair of the national board of AARP.  Currently she is a member of the boards of Aurora Health Care and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, and president of the American Academy of Nursing. 

Her research has centered on nurse/physician relationships and quality and safety within health care organizations. For the past 8 years, she has been a faculty leader for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (or QSEN) initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.  She has received a number of awards for her work, among them Outstanding Faculty Member at Rush University College of Nursing; Outstanding Alumna Awards from the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing; and in 2008, the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Wisconsin.

 Joanne Dish