UT School of Nursing professor named AAN fellow
Lorriane Frazier, Ph.D.
HOUSTON – (Dec. 10, 2008) – Lorraine Frazier, Ph.D., the Nancy B. Willerson Distinguished Professor of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, has been named a 2008 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).
Fellows of AAN are considered the nation’s nurse leaders who make outstanding contributions to health care and the nursing profession at the state, national and international level. They are recognized as those who continue to impact nursing education and research.
Frazier serves as director of the university’s Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences BioBank, a sophisticated collection of data and samples in multiple locations, formats and disease focuses. The BioBank is designed to advance research through the sharing of the samples and related clinical data.
In addition to BioBank work, Frazier is chair of the American Heart Association Functional Genomic and Translational Biology Interdisciplinary Working Group, a member of the Society of Nursing Genetics and a researcher funded by the National Institutes of Health.
“I am honored to be a member or ‘fellow’ of the American Academy of Nursing,” Frazier said. “It is a privilege to be among such a distinguished group of nursing leaders as they serve the public and the nursing profession. The academy is really out to make a difference in advancing health policy and practice, and it is amazing to have the opportunity to be a small part of this effort.”
The goals of AAN fellows include enhancing the quality of health and nursing care; promoting healthy aging and human development across the life continuum; reducing health disparities and inequalities; shaping healthy behaviors and environments; integrating mental and physical health care; and strengthening the nursing and health care delivery system, nationally and internationally.
Other AAN fellows at the UT School of Nursing include: Mara Baun, DNSc, Nancy Bergstrom, Ph.D., Deanna Grimes, Dr.P.H., Sandra K. Hanneman, Ph.D., Joanne Hickey, Ph.D., Tom Mackey, Ph.D., Marianne Marcus, Ed.D., Janet Meininger, Ph.D., and Patricia L. Starck, D.S.N., dean of the School of Nursing.