Margaret Grey ‘76

90 Outstanding Yale Nurses Recipient

Class of 1976

Currently the Dean and Annie W. Goodrich Professor at YSN, Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, has made an undeniable impact on the education of nurse practitioners and care for children with diabetes. Throughout her career, Dr. Grey has taken her knowledge of and passion for research on diabetes in children and created approaches to improve the lives of children and families and studied their impact. She has been a leader in advanced practice nursing education as well.

Before becoming dean at YSN, Dr. Grey held progressive administrative appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia, and was associate dean for scholarly affairs at YSN. She helped to create YSN’s PhD program, and received National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to support pre- and postdoctoral students and fellows. She also founded and directed the NIH–funded Center for Self and Family Management of Vulnerable Populations, which focused on the development, understanding, and testing of interventions to support self and family management of health problems in vulnerable populations. Currently, Dr. Grey is co-director of a new collaborative training grant that aims to train researchers in behavioral issues in type 1 diabetes. 

The principal investigator of grants for research in nursing and diabetes totaling over $30 million, Dr. Grey serves as director of the T3 Translational Research Core for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and has been nationally honored for her research. Elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, she was named Outstanding Nurse Scientist by the American Academy of Nursing in 2008, received the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research in 2012, and the American Diabetes Association’s Richard R. Rubin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Behavioral Medicine in 2013. She is former president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners, a member of the second cohort of Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows, a member of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the NIH, and the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association.

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