Dorrie K. Fontaine, PhD, RN, FAAN has served since 2008 as dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia (UVA), where she is the Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and associate chief nursing officer at the UVA Medical Center. The founder of UVA’s Compassionate Care Initiative, she has more than 40 years’ experience as a critical care and trauma nurse and a distinguished record of leadership at the nation’s top nursing schools, including those of the University of Maryland; Georgetown University; and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Fontaine is a past president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the current president of the Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing. Inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1995, she received both the Presidential Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and a Medallion for Contributions to the Profession from Villanova University in 1999. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland in 2012 and the 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr., UVA Health System Award for championing diversity and inclusion.

 

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