For immediate release: Sept. 10, 2007
GALVESTON, Texas - Kathryn Fiandt has been named to the newly created position of associate dean for clinical affairs in the School of Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Fiandt's mission at UTMB is to establish an academic nursing practice program. The primary purpose of the program is to provide an environment for faculty to use their knowledge and skills to develop and evaluate innovative nursing practice activities. The practice innovations will focus on strategies to assist people with complex chronic illnesses to improve their health and the quality of their lives.
She will hold the Professor and the Lena Finke Chair of Nursing Arts endowed by Mary Strasburger Cade.
"Dr Fiandt brings to UTMB an extraordinarily impressive array of skills and accomplishments," said Pamela G. Watson, dean of the School of Nursing. "I am so happy that she decided to come to UTMB. In the brief period she has been in Galveston, she has already become part of UTMB and the Galveston community."
Fiandt received her Doctor of Nursing Science degree in 1993 from Indiana University. Most recently, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing she established the Morehead Center for Nursing Practice. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, 2004-2007. She is a former army nurse who served in active duty from 1971 to 1974, retiring from the reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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