Julie Fairman receives the 2015 Excellence in Media Award from the American Academy of Nursing

Julie Fairman (Awardee 2006) recently won an award at the 2015 American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

Nursing Outlook, the official journal of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), has awarded Julie Fairman, Nightingale Professor of Nursing and chair of the department of biobehavioral health sciences at Penn, and Patricia D’Antonio, Killebrew-Censits Term Professor in Undergraduate Education and chair of the department of family & community health at Penn, the 2015 Excellence in Media Award for their article, “History counts: How history can shape our understanding of health policy.” This award recognizes exemplary journalism that reports on health or health care with accurate and appropriate inclusion of nurses’ contributions or perspectives. The honor was presented earlier this month at the 2015 American Academy of Nursing Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.