A Remarkable Year

2022-2023 UW School of Nursing Year in Review

From the desk of the dean

Reading this Year in Review content reminded me how much we accomplished, and how many of you who are reading this were part of that.

In every major area—research, teaching, community engagement—we innovated, created, challenged ourselves, and excelled. At the same time, we advanced our goal of doing the work needed to advance equity in both healthcare and healthcare education access.

As you read this Year in Review, thank yourself for having been part of something special. That’s what I am doing as I prepare to begin a new professional challenge as dean of the Yale University School of Nursing. I will be watching and looking for the UW SoN’s future successes.

10 Years of Transformation

On April 3, 2023, Dean Azita Emami announced she had accepted the position of the Yale School of Nursing, starting August 1. In honor of her decade of work at the UW School of Nursing, we take a look back at the transformation of nursing and nursing education under her superb leadership.

She developed and co-led the School of Nursing Covid-19 Task Force that developed alternative, innovative clinical placements that enabled our students to gain required skills as the pandemic reduced traditional clinical placements.

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Dean Emami collaborated with Public Health — Seattle & King County to implement “Best Starts for Kids,” a voter-approved (2015), publicly-funded initiative whose programs are designed to provide every baby born or child raised in King County the opportunity to reach adulthood happy, healthy, safe, and thriving.

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She instituted the nation’s first Center for Antiracism in Nursing (2021), established the UW Center for Global Health Nursing (2016), and co-created and helped launch the Impact Office and Clinical Placement Support Structure.

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