Professor Ayişe Karadağ American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Membership

Dean of the School of Nursing, Prof. Ayişe Karadağ, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) for her significant, sustained, and extraordinary impact on health and health services. Prof. Karadağ is the first nurse from the Republic of Türkiye, with a 100-year history in the nursing profession, to receive this title. She was deemed worthy of this membership due to her educational activities on “Chronic Wound Management and Stoma Care Nursing,” a substantial health issue in aging societies, her research that influences health policies, and the results of her social service contributions.

The purpose of the Academy is to serve society and the nursing profession by improving health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nursing knowledge. The mission of the Academy is “to advance health and achieve health equity by influencing policy through nursing leadership, innovation, and scholarship.” The Academy represents nursing’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, management, practice, and academia. 

The Academy honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “access to health care, health protection and promotion, health system excellence, quality health care, global nursing/health, and health policy direction.”