Indiana Nurse Educator to Receive Nursing Science Award

Washington, DC - The American Nurses Foundation (ANF) will honor nursing professor and researcher Dr. Joan Austin with the Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Science (DCNS) Award at the American Nurses Association (ANA) convention in Minneapolis, MN. The DCNS Award is presented biennially to recognize a registered nurse who has made significant contributions to nursing research

Dr. Austin is a distinguished professor of nursing in the School of Nursing at the Indiana University of Nursing in Indianapolis, where she has taught since 1981. She also holds adjunct appointments in the Psychiatry department, Indiana University School of Medicine and in the Psychology department at Purdue University School of Science. Dr. Austin is the principal investigator for the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness in the nursing research center at Indiana University School of Nursing. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation and the Research Commission of the International Bureau for Epilepsy. Dr. Austin is second vice president of the American Epilepsy Society and in 2005 will become the first nurse to serve as president of that organization.

The award honoring Dr. Austin will be presented during a convention reception Sunday, June 27 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., in Room 103 E/F of the Convention Center. Another nursing luminary, Dr. Margretta Styles, will be presented with the ANF Nightingale Lamp Award at the reception.

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