PhD, RN, FAAN
Visiting Professor
PhD, RN, FAAN
Visiting Professor
Areas
Faculty Emerita;
Nursing Research
Expertise
Health Disparities
Interprofessional Health
Biography
Dr. Barbra Mann Wall is an internationally recognized nurse historian whose research demonstrates nurses’ strong influences on the development of hospitals and nursing schools. She is the Thomas A. Saunders III Professor Emerita in Nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She also is Director Emerita of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.
Dr. Wall received her BSN from the University of Texas at Austin and her MS in Nursing from Texas Woman’s University. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Notre Dame. She has been funded by the NIH and private grants.