Nursing Leadership from the Outside In

Dean Greer Glazer, PhD, FAAN, RN, CNP, is Dean, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Boston. A distinguished scholar and an international leader in nursing education, service, and research, Dr. Glazer has 20 years of experience in the field of women's health. Having recently completed a three-year Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship, Dr. Glazer helped to develop and implement the Women's Health Nurse Practitioner program at Kent State, the first nursing doctorate program at Case Western's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and the master's program in Women's Health Nursing at Tel Aviv University, Israel, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She also worked as a consultant on Israeli women's transition to midlife for the Israeli Ministry of Health. As chairperson of the Political Action Committee of the American Nurses Association, she oversaw fund-raising activities. Dr. Glazer is widely published, is in great demand as a public speaker, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs. She is a cofounder and current legislative editor of the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is editor of Nursing Education Perspectives, the flagship journal for the National League for Nursing, and the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. She served as Dean at Case Western from 1982 through 1997. She has received numerous honors and awards including the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature. She is a former senior editor for the Annual Review of Nursing Research and a well-published Springer author and editor.