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NBNA Honors Dr. Ora Strickland with Trailblazer Award

Dr. Ora L. Strickland will be honored with the NBNA Trailblazer Award at the 31st Annual Institute and Conference of the National Black Nurses Association, July 30 - August 3, 2003, at the New Orleans Marriott. The awardees will receive the honor at the President's Gala on Saturday, August 2, 2003. The theme of the Conference is "Emerging Health Threats: Nursing Solutions in a New Era".

Ora Strickland, PhD, DSc (Hon.), RN, FAAN is Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and is also Director of Research on Special Populations of Veterans at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center. Dr. Strickland is the founding editor of the Journal of Nursing Measurement. She has also served on numerous editorial boards or review panels, among them are Advances in Nursing Science, Research in Nursing and Health, Journal of Profession Nursing, Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice: An International Journal and the Nursing Leadership Forum. Dr. Strickland also initiated the development of the Nursing Citation Index.

In recognition of Dr. Strickland's outstanding contributions to nursing, she is the youngest person ever elected into the American Academy of Nursing. Other fellowships include the Kellogg National Fellow, Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in Bioethics, American Nurses' Association Minority Doctoral Fellow and Ford Foundation Fellow. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Nursing Research National Advisory Council, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the American Journal of Nursing Company, and member the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust. While a professor at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, Dr. Strickland was a columnist for the Baltimore Sun. Her column tilted "Nurse's Station" appeared regularly in the health magazine section of the Morning and Evening Sun and won two health journalism awards in 1988. Four volumes of Measurements of Nursing Outcomes has won seven American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards.

An internationally known specialist in nursing research, measurement, evaluation and maternal and child health and parenting, Dr. Strickland is frequently called upon as a consultant. She has presented more than 200 lectures, speeches and workshops. She has appeared on national television shows including NBC's Frank Field Show, Straight Talk, and ABC's Nightly News with Peter Jennings. Dr. Strickland has written or contributed to over 18 books.

The National Black Nurses Association, founded in 1971, is a professional organization, representing 150,000 African American registered nurses, licensed vocational/practical nurses and nursing students. The mission of NBNA is to "investigate, define and determine the health care requirements of African Americans and other diverse communities to foster optimal health and health care services commensurate with that of the larger society."

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