APOS :: Officers and Directors - Ruth McCorkle, Ph.D., FAAN

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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN
Second Vice-President
Florence S. Wald Professor of Nursing
Yale University School of Nursing
Director, Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care
and Program Leader of Cancer Control
Yale Cancer Center
ruth.mccorkle@yale.edu

Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, is the Florence S. Wald Professor of Nursing at Yale University, Director of the Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care and Program Leader of Cancer Control at Yale Cancer Center. She is renowned for her work in psychosocial oncology. Her research has focused on patient responses to cancer at critical points in the illness experience including the point of diagnosis, the initiation of treatment, the period of active treatment, survivorship, recurrence, disease progression, and terminal illness. Moreover, she had conducted groundbreaking research examining the impact of advanced practice nursing on quality of life and survival outcomes in adults with cancer.

Dr. McCorkle has had continuous federal funding from the National Institutes of Health since the late 1970s for peer reviewed research grants and training programs. She has served as a member of the study sections for the NCI (1978-1982) and the NINR (1988-1992). She was the Director of the Center for Advancing Care in Serious Illness at University of Pennsylvania funded by the NINR. In the early 1980's, she obtained the first non-medical NCI Institutional Training Grant (T32) and opened the door for other non-medical disciplines to become competitive in securing funding.

She has won numerous awards recognizing her outstanding contributions to nursing science and oncology nursing. In 1988, she received the Outstanding Research Award by the Pennsylvania Nurses Association. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1990. She was recognized again in 1993 as the Nurse Scientist of the Year by the American Nurses Association and in 1994 received the Distinguished Research Award from the Oncology Nursing Society.