 |
Faculty Profile
|
|
Carolyn A. Williams, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.
|
|
 |
Professor and Former Dean
Faculty Status: Graduate (Full)
Education: Ph.D., University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1969
Interests: Evaluation of
community-based health services; nursing contributions to
primary care; public health nursing practice; health policy and
health professions workforce policy
Phone: (859) 323-6533
E-mail:
cawill00@uky.edu |
|
Research Links for Carolyn Williams
Carolyn A. Willliams, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., is professor and
the immediate past dean
of the College of Nursing. Prior to appointment to the faculty
here, she held several positions including associate professor of
epidemiology in the School of Public Health and associate
professor of nursing in the School of Nursing at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and professor and director of the
graduate program and research at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School
of Nursing, Emory University.
Williams is actively involved in educational, research, and
practice activities and in consultation. Her practice and research
interests are in public health nursing, community-focused health
programs, and the use of epidemiological strategies in health
services management and evaluation. She has many publications in
nursing, primary care, and public health, and has served on
numerous editorial boards and as a reviewer for several
publications.
Williams has held many leadership roles including
president of the American Academy of Nursing; chairperson,
Commission on Nursing Research, ANA; member, Program Development
Board, American Public Health Association (APHA); and, member,
Boards of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. She has held appointments on
National Research Study sections and has served on review
panels for the National Institute for Nursing Research. In the
late 1970s she served as a member of the advisory committee for Jo
Horsley’s CURN project and in the late 1980s she chaired the
advisory committee for the grant, “Disseminating Nursing
Research” with Sandra Funk as the principal investigator.
|
Top |
|
National policy-making roles include appointment by President
Carter as a nurse member of the President’s Commission for the
Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, Biomedical and Behavioral
Research, and membership on the Preventive Services Task Force,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Williams has
provided international consultation to South America through the
Pan American Health Organization (WHO), to the WHO in Geneva, and
as a member of the WHO’s Nursing Advisory Panel.
She is a fellow of the American Public Health Association (APHA)
and the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and served as president
of the academy from 1983 to 1985. She received the Distinguished
Alumna Award from Texas Woman’s University in 1983 and the Mary
Tolle Wright Founder’s Award for Excellence in Leadership from
Sigma Theta Tau International in 2001. In March 2002 she completed
a two-year term as president of the American Association of
Colleges of Nursing.
|
Top
|
Publications
Sebastian, J.G., Stanhope, M., Williams, C.A.,
Pilon, B., Richardson, H., & Williams, M.D. (2004). Academic
nursing practice models and related strategic issues. In L.K.
Evans & N.M. Lang (Eds.), Academic nursing practice: Helping
to shape the future of healthcare (pp. 38-65). New
York: Springer Publishing Co. (Nursing Education Best Books of
the Year, American Journal of Nursing, 2004). |
More publications and presentations
|
News Stories:
Dean
Williams Receives Alumna Award
College of Nursing Dean Honored by International Association
|
|
|
Top of Page
|
|
