2023 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Honorees

Jane Maguire, PhD, BA, RN, BNursing Honours, Grad Cert Child and Family Health, MACN

Deputy Head of School-Research and Professor of Nursing, University of Technology Sydney – Sydney, Australia Research areas: stroke recovery; genomic science

Matthew D. McHugh, PhD, JD, MPH, RN, FAAN

Professor and Independence Endowed Chair for Nursing Education, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing –Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Research areas: advanced practice providers; health law and regulation; rural health

Brett Mitchell, PhD, M.Adv.Pract., Dip Trop Nursing, BN, C.HealthM, C.TeachSuper, FACN, FACIPC

Professor of Nursing, Avondale University and Monash University – Lake Macquarie, Australia

Research areas: infection prevention and control; health services research

Ukamaka M. Oruche, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN

Gordon Keller Professor of Nursing and Assistant Dean of the PhD Program, University of South Florida, College of Nursing – Tampa, Florida, USA

Research areas: developing a dyadic parent/caregiver and healthcare provider intervention to support adolescents with disruptive impulse control and conduct disorders

Alessandro Stievano, PhD, MNursSci, MSoc, MEd, BNurs, RN, FEANS, FAAN, FFNMRCSI, FTNSS

Professor, Research Coordinator, Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship OPI of Rome – Rome, Italy

Research areas: professional and policy issues in nursing and health professions; nursing ethics; transcultural nursing

Lorna Kwai Ping Suen, PhD, MPH, BN, RN, RM, FHKAN, FAAN

Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, Tung Wah College – Homantin, Hong Kong

Researcher areas: complementary and alternative medicine; auriculotherapy and auricular diagnosis; infection control

Yun-Fang Tsai, PhD, RN, FAAN

Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing, Chang Gung University – Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Research areas: care needs of minority populations

Kwua Yun Wang, PhD, RN, FAAN Director and Professor, RUI GUANG HEALTH CARE GROUP – Taipei, Taiwan

Research areas: pulmonary nursing and rehabilitation; oncology nursing; chronic disease nursing; critical care nursing; health education; health promotion and long-term care

Wenru Wang, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associate Professor, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore – Singapore

Research areas: chronic illness and longterm care with a primary focus on cardiovascular health and rehabilitation; diabetes management and active aging

Chao Hsing Yeh, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN

Professor and The Jane and Robert Cizik

Distinguished Chair, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Cizik

School of Nursing – Houston, Texas, USA

Posthumous inductee to the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston honors Dr. Yeh and her legacy of advancing the science of non-pharmacological pain treatments using auricular point acupressure.

Research areas: science of non-pharmacological pain treatments, focusing on the mechanisms, efficacy, and implementation of auricular point acupressure (APA) to manage pain and cancer-related symptoms

Adelaida Zabalegui, PhD, RN, FEANS

Vice-Director of Nursing, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain

Research areas: caregivers of people over 65; best practices for patients with dementia, patient education, implementation, and evaluation of dedicated education units in Europe; clinical reasoning in nursing students

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