Azita Emami, an internationally identified nursing chief and investigator who has known as focus to the important part nurses can enjoy in improving care in underserved communities, will become the future dean of the Yale University of Nursing, President Peter Salovey announced today.
Emami, presently the executive dean of the College of Nursing at the College of Washington (UW), provides to Yale a dedication to fostering wellness and additional than two a long time of encounter shaping investigation and educating, advancing the purpose of nurses in clinical observe, and increasing wellness care fairness and access, Salovey claimed.
She begins her new position on Aug. 1.
“[Azita Emami’s] occupation is distinguished by a determination to increasing the function of nursing within just the global well being treatment ecosystem and reworking the techniques nurses are deployed, skilled, and concerned in decision-generating about clinical care tips and techniques,” Salovey wrote in a concept to the university group. “More particularly, she has brought emphasis to the important contributions of nurses in pinpointing and addressing social determinants that generate obstacles to health and fitness and wellness.”
In her perform, Emami has underscored the central job nurses can engage in in offering principal care so that underserved spots — urban and rural — have equitable entry to overall health treatment, Salovey claimed. From 2018 to 2020, she led the U.S. “Nursing Now” initiative, a global marketing campaign involved with the International Council of Nurses and the Environment Overall health Group. In 2021, she spearheaded the U.S. “Year of the Nurse and the Midwife” marketing campaign as section of a broader United Nations initiative.
“I am honored to be joining the Yale group,” Emami claimed. “I very considerably appear ahead to doing work with the college, students, alumni, and employees in the Faculty of Nursing to visualize the future of healthcare and the part of nursing in reaching that vision.”
In her present-day function, Emami oversees training, analysis, and scientific observe across three accredited campuses that graduate more than 1,000 nurses per year with bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degrees. A trustee of the Robert Wooden Johnson Foundation, she advocates for increasing instructional, clinical practice, and policymaking alternatives for nurses around the globe.
Under Emami’s management, the UW University of Nursing has persistently been identified as one of the top general public university universities of nursing in the country, Salovey reported. Emami has led a range of transformative initiatives to aid faculty study, educating, and practice, and to increase academic prospects for learners.
“Noteworthy endeavours contain the redesign of the UW School of Nursing curriculum to area an emphasis on population well being and health fairness,” Salovey wrote in his information. “Additionally, she led the development of the region’s first Center for Antiracism in Nursing contributed to the establishment of the UW Middle for World-wide Well being Nursing and collaborated with local public health authorities to put into practice ‘Ideal Commences for Kids’ to increase the health results of little ones in Seattle.”
As chair of the UW Board of Wellbeing Sciences Deans, she has facilitated interdisciplinary schooling and study initiatives and played an instrumental purpose in the generation of the Overall health Sciences Education and learning Making, which bridges several fields of instructing and practice, Salovey stated. At the regional level, she fostered a partnership involving the UW College of Nursing and Premera, the Washington Condition Blue Cross corporation, to make the Rural Nursing Health and fitness Initiative. This application is establishing a pipeline of primary care suppliers in critically underserved rural places in Washington Point out and has been expanded to strengthen the position of nurse practitioners specializing in psychological wellbeing care.
Holly Powell Kennedy, Yale College of Nursing’s interim dean, said Emami provides to Yale “a background of visionary leadership.”
“In her letter to the research advisory committee,” Kennedy said, “she pointed out, ‘True management — inspiring management — is about currently being noticeable and trying to get alternatives for systemic challenges that end result in dysfunction however are deeply embedded and recalcitrant to improve. Racism is these kinds of an situation for nursing.’ Her function with the University of Washington group (students, staff members, and college) fostered consensus, not coercion, resulting in a framework for their strategic system and a Center for Antiracism in Nursing. It was an case in point of the many recalcitrant difficulties she correctly navigated for the duration of her many leadership roles.
“We genuinely appear forward to her signing up for the YSN community for the duration of our centennial calendar year and major us into the next century!”
Emami attained her R.N. and Ph.D. in health care sciences from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. She conducted investigation, taught, and cared for people there and at hospitals and exploration facilities in Sweden. She was also head of the Division of Nursing at Karolinska Institutet and director of a joint doctoral system with various institutions in Iran. She moved to the United States to acquire on the function of dean of the Higher education of Nursing at Seattle College, serving there till 2013, when she joined UW.
Emami has authored extra than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals on a huge vary of matters, including cross-cultural care, elder and dementia treatment, the progress of cultural competence, and treatments for different diseases and conditions. For her contributions to nursing exploration, educating, and advancing the job of nurses, she has obtained the Washington Point out Nurses Association’s Honorary Recognition Award, the College of Washington Girl of Braveness Award, and a lot of other honors. She is also an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Emami and her partner, Massod, have two grownup daughters and six grandchildren who, Salovey noted, “are content to occupy her ‘spare’ time when they visit from Sweden.”
She will be successful Interim Dean Kennedy, whose provider began on Jan. 1, 2023, right after former Dean Ann Kurth stepped down to accept a new situation as president of the New York Academy of Medication.
In his concept to the neighborhood, Salovey expressed his gratitude to the YSN community for its “unwavering dedication to strengthening the overall health and very well-being of all people” and to Interim Dean Kennedy for her management of the college in the course of the transition. He also thanked customers of the search advisory committee, which was chaired by Dr. Stephanie Spangler, vice provost for well being affairs & academic integrity and medical professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive companies, and to colleagues and students who shared their insights during the research method.
“It has been a fantastic satisfaction and a privilege to participate with my colleagues on the president’s advisory committee in the research for the following dean of the Yale School of Nursing,” Spangler claimed. “I have worked intently with the Faculty of Nursing for the duration of my decades in the provost’s business and watched with admiration as it has designed upon its rich history to improve in achievement and distinction.
“Through the lookup process, quite a few customers of the School of Nursing community generously shared with me their aspirations for the school’s future. I am delighted that Azita Emami will convey her individual impressive techniques and file of accomplishment to Yale to assistance make those aspirations a reality.”
Stated Emami: “The legacy of excellence at Yale defines all that higher education can and need to be. It is a privilege to now be a steward of and contributor to that legacy.”
