Endowed professorships and fellowships at the UW School of Nursing are prestigious positions funded by generous donors to support faculty and research excellence. These endowments provide financial resources to faculty members, enabling them to advance innovative teaching, research, and community engagement.
Endowed Professorships
Dr. Allison Webel & Dr. Oleg Zaslavsky
The Aljoya Endowed Professorship is established to advance knowledge related to healthy aging and is awarded to a permanent or visiting faculty member whose commitment to teaching, research, and practice reflects the standards of academic excellence of the School of Nursing, and who seeks to advance research and scholarship in the study of healthy aging. It is the donors’ wish that through community outreach and education, the Professor will enhance the School’s ability to contribute to health policy and services for older adults.
Dr. Cynthia Dougherty & Dr. Maria Bleil
The Charles and Gerda Spence Endowed Professorship in Nursing enhances the University’s ability to attract and retain distinguished faculty in nursing. It is awarded to a permanent or visiting faculty member whose commitment to teaching, research, and practice reflects the standards of academic excellence of the School of Nursing, and furthers the development of scholarship in the selected professor’s area of focus. Charles and Gerda Spence have been generous friends of the University and the School of Nursing over the years. Their thoughtful commitment and exemplary support will help the School maintain its leadership position among American nursing schools. The Charles and Gerda Spence Endowed Professorship in Nursing is a wonderful tribute to Charles and Gerda’s admirable role as benefactors at the University and philanthropists in the community.
The Elizabeth C. Giblin Endowed Professorship in Symptom Science enhances the University’s ability to recruit, retain, and/or provide opportunities for professional development for faculty in symptom science in the School of Nursing and is awarded to a faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding potential for scholarly and professional contributions in symptom areas including, but not limited to, pain, sleep, fatigue, respiratory distress, nausea/vomiting, anxiety/depression or impaired cognition and/or in self-management of these symptoms in acutely or chronically ill individuals or families across the life span. The professorship honors Dr. Elizabeth Giblin, a pioneer nurse scientist in the School of Nursing who launched early inquiry into symptom sciences through her work on sleep research that began in the late 1960s. Dr. Giblin established the School’s sleep lab in the late 1970s.
This professorship was established by Marjorie Batey, professor emerita in the School of Nursing.
The Harborview Medical Center Endowed Professorship in Critical Care enhances the University’s ability to attract and retain distinguished faculty in critical care.
The Health Informatics Endowed Faculty Professorship in Nursing enhances the University’s ability to recruit and retain faculty in health informatics in the School of Nursing.
This professorship was established by Marjorie Batey, professor emerita in the School of Nursing.
The John and Marguerite Walker Corbally Professorship in Public Service enhances the University’s ability to attract and retain distinguished faculty in any field whose professional achievements are recognized as making significant contributions to public service, either regionally or nationally. This Professorship is a product of the joint commitment of John and Marguerite Corbally to public service and to higher education as a vehicle through which public service can be encouraged, supported, and better understood.
The Kaiser Permanente Endowed Nursing Professorship in Chronic Illness Care enhances the University’s ability to recruit and retain distinguished faculty in chronic illness care nursing within the School of Nursing.
The Kathryn Barnard Endowed Professorship in Infant Mental Health enhances the University’s ability to recognize distinguished faculty who advance knowledge related to infant mental health and development. Kathryn Barnard is a respected faculty member who has dedicated her career to understanding and promoting healthy social, emotional and cognitive development during the critical earliest years of life. She is an internationally recognized pioneer in her field and a leader in the nursing community. Her thoughtful commitment and exemplary support will help the school maintain its position of excellence in nursing. This endowment recognizes in perpetuity her desire to provide on-going leadership in the field of infant mental health and development.
The Mary S. Tschudin Endowed Professorship in Nursing Education enhances the University’s ability to recruit and retain faculty in nursing and secondarily to provide strategic support for the School of Nursing, at the discretion of the Dean of the School of Nursing. The recipients of this professorship are those able to create and implement strategies to ensure nursing students have high-quality experiences in academic, clinical and research settings. Dean Tschudin was determined to provide nursing students with rigorous educational experiences, and she did so through her leadership and her success in recruiting well-educated, high-caliber faculty to teach at the School. This Professorship is being established to honor her lasting legacy in Nursing by strengthening the School’s teaching endeavors.
This professorship was established by Marjorie Batey, professor emerita in the School of Nursing.
The de Tornyay Endowed Professorship for Healthy Aging enhances the University’s ability to attract and retain distinguished faculty in gerontology and to direct the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging. It is the donors’ intent that income from the endowment be used at the discretion of the Dean of the School of Nursing to recruit a faculty member in gerontology. This may include, but is not limited to, support for teaching, research, practice and public education about aging. Rheba and Rudy de Tornyay have established this endowment in honor of Rheba’s role as dean, professor, and mentor in the School of Nursing. Rheba and Rudy have generously supported the School of Nursing over the years with contributions of time, leadership and private gifts. This endowment recognizes in perpetuity their desire to provide for on-going leadership in the field of gerontology.
The University of Washington Medical Center Endowed Professorship in Nursing Leadership enhances the University’s ability to attract and retain distinguished faculty in Nursing Leadership.
The Alumni Endowed Professorship enhances the University’s ability to attract and retain distinguished faculty in the School of Nursing.
The School of Nursing Endowed Chair for Health Promotion was established to support a faculty chair and a public lecture in the School of Nursing.
Endowed Fellowships
The Lila Scott Faculty Fellowship for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (Lila Scott Endowed Fund) was established to support cardiovascular disease prevention research and behavior-based prevention education programs in the School of Nursing. The gift was initially donated to the Hope Heart Institute, a 501(c)3 organization founded in 1957 by the late Dr. Lester Sauvage, to support research and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Over the years, The Hope Heart Institute (The Hope) transitioned from supporting clinical research to funding prevention science research and delivering evidence-based community education to equip Washington state residents to reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease.
The Gai and Patroni Faculty Fellowship for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention ( Henry & Theresa Gai, and Commander S. Joseph & Margaret Elizabeth Patroni Endowed Funds) was established to support cardiovascular disease prevention research and behavior-based prevention education programs in the School of Nursing. The gift was initially donated to the Hope Heart Institute, a 501(c)3 organization founded in 1957 by the late Dr. Lester Sauvage, to support research and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Over the years, The Hope Heart Institute (The Hope) transitioned from supporting clinical research to funding prevention science research and delivering evidence-based community education to equip Washington state residents to reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Erin Blakeney and Dr. Kendra Kamp
The Marian Van Steenvort Endowed Fund was established to support work that advances one of the many initiatives at the School of Nursing.
Dr.Rebecca O’Connor and Dr. Sarah Gimbel
The Marilee Rasmussen Endowed Fund was established to support work that advances one of the many initiatives at the School of Nursing
Currently Recruiting
The Rebecca and Eli Almo Endowed Faculty Fellowship gift shall be used to create an endowed faculty fellowship fund (“the fund”) to enhance the University’s ability to recruit and retain and/or provide professional development opportunities for the University of Washington Seattle, School of Nursing faculty specializing in dementia care research, education and/or practice; and secondarily, to provide strategic support for the School of Nursing.
The Almos are the owners and founders of Era Living retirement communities and as such are passionate about all issues around healthy aging. They are always looking for ways to improve the lives of the individuals they serve, and their support of healthy aging at the School of Nursing is a way to do that for all. At the time of this Agreement’s execution, Eli is the current president of the School of Nursing Advisory Board, as well as a long-serving member.