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Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, is the Elizabeth Brooks
Ford Professor of Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing,
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, where she
was the dean from 1982 through 1997. She holds an adjunct position as a
professor in the Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, New York. She earned a BSN at Georgetown University, an MS
in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing at Ohio State University, a PhD in
Nursing at New York University, and an MBA from CWRU in 1992. In May
1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane
Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. She has received
numerous honors and awards; she was elected a fellow in the American
Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a fellow in the National Academies of
Practice in 1996. She has received an American Journal of Nursing Book of
the Year Award 18 times. In 2002, Dr. Fitzpatrick received the American
Nurses Foundation Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Science Award for her sustained commitment and
contributions to the development of the discipline. She received the STTI Lucie Kelly Mentor Award in 2003
and the STTI Founders Award for Leadership in 2005. For 2007 to 2008, she served as a Fulbright Scholar at
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature having more than 300 publica-
tions. She served as coeditor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, volumes 1 through 26; she currently
edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the
official journal of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Fitzpatrick edited two editions of the classic Encyclopedia
of Nursing Research and a series of nursing research digests. In 2008, she edited The Doctor of Nursing Practice
and Clinical Nurse Leader, published by Springer Publishing. Her recent books published by Springer Publishing
include Giving through Teaching: How Nurse Educators Are Changing the World, published in June 2010, and Problem
Solving for Better Health: A Global Perspective, published in October 2010.
Dr. Fitzpatrick founded and led the Bolton School’s World Health Organization Collaborating Center for
Nursing; she has provided consultation on nursing education and research throughout the world, including
universities and health ministries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. She
served as a project director for a Nursing Care Quality Initiative, a multisystem, 10-hospital project focused on
improving the care for hospitalized elders and their families funded by the New York Health Alliance and the
Brookdale Foundation. In summer 2008, she was appointed the first Spratt Center for Nursing Education and
Research Visiting Scholar at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. She has served as the chair of the Global Advisory
Committee for the Center for Nursing Research and Education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, CNL, A/GNP-BC, FAAN, com-
pleted her BSN degree magna cum laude at Boston University in 1988. She
earned an MSN in medical-surgical nursing with a specialty in geriat-
rics at Yale University and a PhD in nursing research and theory devel-
opment at New York University. While at New York University, she was
awarded a predoctoral fellowship at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric
Nursing. In this capacity, she became the original author and editor of Try
This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing series. In 2001, she won the Springer
Publishing Company Award for Applied Nursing Research. She was the
managing editor of the Journal of Applied Nursing Research and is currently
the research brief editor for the journal.
Dr. Kazer is the author of numerous journal articles and book chap-
ters. She published Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment Management and
Care in April 2002, which won an American Journal of Nursing Book of the
Year Award. Preceding this, she was the associate editor of The Geriatric Nursing Research Digest in 2002 and the
associate editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Nursing Research published in 2006, both of which also
won the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. She is a recent recipient of the Eastern Nursing
Research Society/John A. Hartford Foundation junior investigator award. She is an adult nurse practitioner and
currently maintains a practice in primary care with a focus on chronic illness in the elderly. She is currently an
associate professor at Fairfield University School of Nursing, Fairfield, Connecticut and was recently inducted
into the American Academy of Nursing.