Elaine Marshall, MS ’79, PhD ’88 was honored on November 13, 2013 with the Merit of Honor award from the U’s Alumni Association. The prestigious Merit of Honor award is given by the Emeritus Alumni Board and recognizes students who attended the University 40 or more years ago and who have given distinguished service to their profession, the University and/or the nation.
Dr. Marshall will be chair of the Department of Health Restorations and Care Systems Management at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio starting in January. Since 2007, she has worked as a nursing professor at Georgia Southern University, where she also has been director of the Center for Nursing Scholarship and helped launch the first interdisciplinary rural health research institute in Georgia and the Southeast region. Prior to moving to Georgia, she was a dean and professor with Brigham Young University's College of Nursing from 1988 to 2007. Her 2010 book Transformational Leadership in Nursing: From Expert Clinician to Influential Leader was the American Journal of Nursing's 2011 Book of the Year winner in the category of Leadership and Management. In 2012, she was named a Fellow with the American Academy of Nursing, one of the highest honors in the field.
Liana Martinez, BSN '85 went into the emergency field after graduation and finally became a flight nurse (her dream job) in Pittsburgh. After doing what she loved, she went back to school to become a nurse practitioner and she loves it. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is looking into returning to school to obtain her JD to complete her education.
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