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Afaf I. Meleis
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Dr. Afaf I. Meleis is the Margaret
Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, and Director
of the School's WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery
Leadership. Prior to her tenure at Penn, she was a Professor
on the faculty of nursing at the University of California Los
Angeles and the University of California San Francisco for 34
years. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the
UK, the American Academy of Nursing, and the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia; a member of the Institute of Medicine, the Forum
of Executive Women, and the Pennsylvania Women's Forum; a Trustee
of the National Health Museum; and a Board Member of CARE, the
Global Health Council, Nurses Education Funds, Inc., and Life
Science Career Alliance. She is Council General of ICOWHI, the
International Council on Women's Health Issues (http://www.icowhi.org/index.cfm),
an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal
of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women throughout
the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education,
and research. She is also a Global Ambassador for the Girl Child
Initiative of the International Council of Nurses.
Dr. Meleis' scholarship is focused
on global health, immigrant and international health, women's
health, and on the theoretical development of the nursing discipline.
She is the author of more than 150 articles in social sciences,
nursing, and medical journals; 40 chapters; 6 books; and numerous
monographs and proceedings. Her teaching focuses on structure
and organization of nursing knowledge, transitions and health,
and international nursing.
The recipient of numerous honors
and awards, as well as honorary doctorates and distinguished
and honorary professorships around the world, in 1990 Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak presented Dr. Meleis with the Medal of
Excellence for professional and scholarly achievements, and in
2000 she received the Chancellor's Medal from the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2007, she received three distinguished
awards: an Honorary Doctorate of Medicine from the Linköping
University, Sweden; the Global Citizenship Award from the United
Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia; and The Dr. Gloria
Twine Chisum Award for Distinguished Faculty at University of
Pennsylvania, awarded for community leadership and commitment
to promoting diversity. She is the first Dean at the University
of Pennsylvania to receive this award.
Dr. Meleis graduated Magna Cum
Laude from the University of Alexandria, and earned an MS in
nursing, an MA in sociology, and a PhD in medical and social
psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles. |
