Offices and Services
Dr. Nancy Hoffart
Dean, Alice Ramez Chagoury School of Nursing
Dr. Nancy Hoffart joined LAU in October 2009, as the Founding Dean and Professor for the new Alice Ramez Chagoury School of Nursing, which will welcome its first students in the fall of 2010.
Prior to joining LAU, Hoffart was the Dean of Nursing at Northeastern University, in Boston, from 2002–2008, and the Assistant Dean at the School of Nursing, University of Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City from 1997–2002.
Hoffart received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from South Dakota State University, a Master’s in Nursing from the University of Minnesota, and earned a PhD in Nursing from the University of Virginia. She completed a research fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar at the University of Rochester from 1989–1991.
With experience teaching at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Hoffart has over 20 years of experience in nursing education. She has played leadership roles in the development of nursing curricula at all program levels, and is an active researcher, with over 50 publications, in the areas of nephrology nursing, nursing practice models, and education—practice collaboration in nursing.
She has held several editorial positions at notable journals and publications in the field and has received numerous awards for teaching, research and service, including the Nephrology Nursing Education Award from the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association, as well as the Distinguished Service Award from the National Kidney Foundation.
Hoffart served as the Chair of the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing from 2005—2008 and was a member of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education’s Nurse of the Future Work Group.
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