President Levin appoints Professor Katherine Jones as Acting Dean of YSN
New Haven, CT — September 23, 2004
Katherine Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN has been appointed Acting Dean of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN), effective September 1, 2004. Recommended with great enthusiasm by her colleagues, Professor Jones will serve until a new dean is appointed.
Dr. Jones joined the YSN faculty in July 2003 as a professor in the doctoral program with a focus on health services research and health policy. She holds B.S.N. and M.S. degrees in medical-surgical nursing from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in administration and policy analysis from Stanford. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins, she held faculty positions at the University of Florida, UCLA, University of Michigan, and the University of Colorado. A member of the American Academy of Nursing, she has served the nursing profession in numerous capacities, including several expert panels. "The range of her experience, at other schools and in the profession, will be of great value in her new capacity," said Yale University President, Richard C. Levin.
I am looking forward to working with Acting Dean Jones, and I am confident that she will serve the School with distinction," President Levin said.
Dr. Jones'' research focuses on health care quality and improvement. She is currently completing a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that developed and evaluated an intervention to improve pain management in nursing homes. She also directs the Yale Program for the Advancement of Chronic Wound Care, funded by BMS/Convatec, and serves as co-director of the Outcomes Core on a newly funded NINR Nursing Research Center Core Grant for Self and Family Management of Vulnerable Populations (led by Margaret Grey, YSN Associate Dean for Scholarly Affairs as principal investigator).
