Please join the College of Nursing Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the College of Nursing Auditorium located at 6436 Fannin Street Houston, Texas for our Inaugural Nursing Leadership Lecture Series title: Health Care, Education & Stakeholders: Views from Diverse Nurse Leaders. Each semester the CON will invite Nurse Leaders to share their perspective on issues that impact the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities as well as support our vision of reducing the social determinants of health and improve health equity for all. The CON Nursing Leadership lecture is open to PVAMU CON students, staff, faculty, alumni, preceptors, the larger PVAMU community as well as members of the Texas Medical Center Community and those practitioners and scholars unaffiliated with PVAMU. Click on the link on the attached flyer or scan to QR Code (seats are limited.)
The 2023 Fall Speaker is G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor in the School of Nursing, Assistant Dean of Relational Excellence at the Adams School of Dentistry.
Dr. G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN, noted presenter and consultant, is currently a professor in the School of Nursing, Assistant Dean of Relational Excellence at the Adams School of Dentistry and formerly the Associate Vice -Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion/ Chief Diversity Officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the end of 2019, she completed her presidency of the National League for Nursing, the national voice for nursing education which has over 40,000 nurse educators and 1200 schools of nursing.
In February of 2021, she became the American Nurses Association’s Scholar-In-Residence and advises the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing and a year later the Senior Equity Advisor. She is a board member of The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers and purchasers and the nation’s premier advocate of transparency in health care.
Included in her nursing career are appointments to several transformative healthcare initiatives addressing diversity, equity and inclusion including the Commission of Workforce for Hospitals and Health Systems of the American Hospital Association (over 500,000 copies of the report have been distributed nationally and internationally), the Tri-Council of Nursing, and the National Quality Forum’s steering committee which developed the first national voluntary consensus standards for nursing-sensitive care. As the Senior Vice President for Clinical and Professional Services at the Tennessee Hospital Association and their first vice president of color, she designed and executed one of the nation’s first minority health administrators’ program, Agenda 21, which exists to this day.