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Sandelowski to serve as School of Nursing’s first Boshamer distinguished professor

CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. Margarete Sandelowski has been named the first Cary C. Boshamer distinguished professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sandelowski is a national leader in qualitative nursing research and in women’s health. Her research focuses on gender and technology, as well as enhancing the use of qualitative research as a basis for evidence-based practice.

The Boshamer distinguished professorships were established by UNC alumnus Cary Carlisle Boshamer in 1973 to support professors who have achieved reputations of national and international success. More than a dozen faculty members representing diverse campus disciplines serve as Boshamer distinguished professors.

Sandelowski has served on the UNC nursing faculty since 1986. In addition to working with students in the School of Nursing’s doctoral program, she is director of the school’s Annual Summer Institutes in Qualitative Research.

She also has been a visiting professor at a number of national and international universities.

Her editorial activities include service as the assistant editor of Research in Nursing and Health, associate editor of Health Care for Women International and the North American editor of Nursing Inquiry. She has written more than 100 articles, book chapters and books, including the recently released "Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology and American Nursing."

Memberships include the American Nurses Association, Southern Nursing Research Society and Sigma Theta Tau, an international nursing honor society. She was honored in 1990 as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

"It is gratifying to receive this honor from a university that I love," said Sandelowski. "I am especially appreciative of my professional home, which has offered a vibrant environment in which to develop a scholarly career."

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School of Nursing contact: Sunny Smith Nelson at (919) 966-1412