Beth Baldwin Tigges

Dr. Tigges is a Regents’ Professor at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing, in Albuquerque, NM. She is an experienced academician and researcher and has led or co-led multiple U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) interdisciplinary initiatives to address knowledge gaps in research infrastructure, team science and mentoring; these projects culminated in publications and new structures to facilitate collaboration and implementation of best practices in working in diverse teams. 

 

Dr. Tigges has given over 20 presentations around the world discussing the application of the science of team science to leading teams in nursing. She has promoted the concept that leadership should be a priority for all nurses, regardless of role or seniority. She co-developed and led psychometric-testing of the first set of scales to measure organizational mentoring climate and an observational rubric for scoring mentors’ behavioral interactions with mentees. 

 

She is an expert in the evaluation of NIH interdisciplinary research centers and co-chaired NIH’s Clinical and Translational Science Award Consortium’s Program Evaluators’ Group, comprised of evaluators from over 50 NIH-funded sites, for the past four years. For over 25 years, Dr. Tigges held elected leadership positions in Sigma Theta Tau International, most recently as President from 2017-2019. Along with many other esteemed colleagues, she was part of a pivotal leadership group that contributed to Sigma’s global growth to over 570 chapters in 37 countries and collaboration with partners worldwide. 

 

Dr. Tigges received her BSN from Pennsylvania State University, her MSN from Yale University, and her PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.