Joan Shaver on nurturing leaders.

Joan Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), a top-10 nationally ranked college of nursing. She is currently President of the American Academy of Nursing, a 1,600-member, peer-elected group of top nursing leaders that exists as an entity of the American Nurses Association, and she has just completed four years as a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Shaver also is Board Director for Advocate HealthCare, a large, fully integrated, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system in metropolitan Chicago, and a Sleep Advisory Board member of the Select Comfort Corporation. She holds a doctorate in physiology and biophysics and a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Washington, Seattle, with a baccalaureate in nursing from the Joan Shaver on Nurturing Leaders