YSN’s Ruth McCorkle Awarded NYU’s Distinguished Scholar in Nursing Award!
New Haven, CT — June 24, 2005
The College of Nursing at New York University (NYU) has selected YSN's Ruth McCorkle to receive the 2005 Distinguished Scholar in Nursing Award. This award honors those who have made a significant contribution to nursing and health care. Criteria for this award recognize a nurse whose contributions promote advancement of nursing as a science, enhance nursing science through utilization of a theory/research base for nursing education. Advance nursing science through scholarly writing, and promote recognition of nursing as a science through outstanding scholarship.
"Given Dr. McCorkle's renowned work in psychosocial oncology and her areas of research in the field of cancer, she certainly meets the criteria for this award," said Dr. Terry Fulmer, Dan of the NYU College of Nursing.
A pioneer in oncology nursing, Ruth McCorkle has been named the first Florence Schorske Wald Professor at YSN. McCorkle currently directs the Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, and is also the program leader for Cancer Control at the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine.
Professor McCorkle's interest in cancer and palliative care is longstanding. Over 20 years ago she studied at St. Christopher's Hospice in London, England, and participated in clinical studies to relieve distressing symptoms associated with dying. Since then, she has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and other prestigious groups for her studies on managing life with cancer.
Elected to the institute of Medicine in 1990, McCorkle is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards. Some of her many honors include the Book of the Year Award for Cancer Nursing from the American Journal of Nursing, a Distinguished Merit Award from the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care, and a Distinguished Research Award from the Oncology Nursing Society. She was named the Nurse Scientist of the Year by the Council of Nurse Researchers of the American Nurses Association, one of the most coveted awards in the field of nursing. A prolific writer, her work appears in many professional journals in the US and abroad.
