Eileen Sullivan-Marx
# Eileen Sullivan-Marx

Eileen Sullivan-Marx is Dean of the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of Nursing (since 2012) and president of the American Academy of Nursing since October 2019 (President-elect from 2017 until 2019).

## Education

Sullivan-Marx earned a BSN in 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS (1980) from the University of Rochester School of Nursing as a family health nurse practitioner and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1995.

## Career

Sullivan-Marx was the associate dean for practice & community affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. For eleven years, she was the American Nurses Association representative (the first nurse to do so) to the American Medical Association’s Resource Based Relative Value Update Committee.

## Awards

* International Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society Best of Image Research Award (1993)
* Hippensteel Founders Award for Excellence in Practice Award (2011)
* Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award (2013)
* VillageCare Award Distinguished Service Award in 2016.

## Publications

* Innovative collaborations: a case study for academic owned nursing practice
* Directions for the Development of Nursing Knowledge
