Season's Greetings from Usha Menon, PhD, RN, FAAN

G s r ’ e n e o tings s a e S from the newly appointed

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA COLLEGE OF NURSING DEAN

Usha Menon, PhD, RN, FAAN

Introducing

Usha Menon, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean and Professor, USF College of Nursing Senior Associate Vice President, USF Health

I am honored to be named dean of the USF Health College of Nursing. I came to USF to follow my research dreams and I have fallen in love with this college and community. This is such a pivotal time to be a nurse and now more than ever we need to ensure that we are preparing nurses for the frontlines and beyond.

Usha Menon brings a wealth of nursing leadership experience and academic achievement to the University of South Florida College of Nursing. Her expertise will advance areas of research, education and clinical care, while enhancing the school’s already strong national presence.

Dr. Menon joined USF Health in 2018 as Vice Dean of Research. Before moving to Florida, Dr. Menon served as a tenured Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Global Innovation at the University of Arizona-Tucson, College of Nursing and co-PI of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded All of Us Research Program designed to speed up health research and medical breakthroughs by creating a one million person detailed clinical database. Dr. Menon previously served as Vice Dean of the Ohio State College of Nursing.

She received her BSN from Lander University and her MS and PhD in Nursing Science from Indiana University.

Dr. Menon has been consistently funded by the NIH, and national foundations, having garnered more than $60 million in total research grants. She has contributed 80 peer review publications and has over 150 presentations at national and international meetings. She has served on multiple NIH study sections and national society committees. Her primary research interests have been in optimizing cancer screening regimens and reducing racial and ethnic disparities in cancer and other health outcomes. Her interests in nursing education have focused on increasing diversity of thought, scholarship and innovative curricular elements.

Her global health interests include nursing workforce and curricular development in Ethiopia and India, as well as initiating cervical cancer “screen and treat” programs in sub-Saharan Africa and India.

Dr. Menon is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame inductee, and honored as a Top 100 Alumni Legacy Leader by the Indiana University School of Nursing.

Dr. Menon will be the sixth dean of the USF Health College of Nursing since the college was first founded in 1973.

USF Health College of Nursing prepares 21st-century nurses to address the health care needs of local and global communities through excellence in research, education, and clinical care. The college offers undergraduate, graduate, specialist and doctoral degrees. It is located in the beautiful and diverse Tampa Bay, Florida region with campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee.

The college tops Florida’s state universities in National Institutes of Health funding for research. Nurse scientists conduct innovative research that impacts populations throughout the world. The college is also nationally recognized as one of the top veteran-friendly nursing colleges in the nation.

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