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Northeastern Appoints New Dean of Bouvé College of Health Sciences
August 30, 2011
Website: http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2011/08/fulmer.html
Terry Fulmer, a nationally known expert in geriatrics, has been appointed dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at
Northeastern University, Provost Stephen W. Director announced. An
accomplished scholar who was elected to the Institute of Medicine in
2010, Fulmer most recently was the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and
Dean of the College of Nursing at New York University. She will join
Northeastern on Oct. 1.
“I am very excited to have Terry Fulmer
join the University,” said Provost Director. “She is a true scholar with
exceptional leadership capabilities, as indicated by her many
accomplishments at NYU. She is also someone with a clear vision, who
will build on the outstanding progress that Bouvé has made to date.”
Fulmer
was named the founding dean of the College of Nursing at NYU in
2005, and has held a faculty appointment there since 1995. She also
served as co-director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for
Geriatric Nursing, and co-director of the Consortium of New York
Geriatric Education Centers at NYU. She is an adjunct professor of
medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.
“Bouvé is a vibrant and
innovative interdisciplinary health science college, and I am very
honored to have been chosen as dean,” said Fulmer. “Health-care reform,
with a keen emphasis on quality and safety for the public, requires that
we work together in new and creative ways. Bouvé can lead the country,
given its breadth and depth of talent and the palpable enthusiasm at the
college.”
During her tenure at NYU, the Division of Nursing was
elevated to the College of Nursing. The college improved the quality of
its students, faculty and research programs and also experienced
a dramatic increase in external recognition and fundraising.
Fulmer
has also held academic positions at Boston College, Yale University,
Columbia University and the Harvard Medical School Division on Aging.
She has been a fellow at both the American Academy of Nursing and the
New York Academy of Medicine, and was the first nurse to serve as the
president of the Gerontological Society of America. She earned a
master’s degree in nursing and a PhD in Higher Education Administration
from Boston College. She received her bachelor of science from Skidmore
College.
“As dean of Bouvé, Terry Fulmer will combine her vision,
passion and energy to take the college to new heights,” said President
Joseph E. Aoun. “Her appointment will also strengthen our signature
focus on health — a major theme of Northeastern's teaching and
research.”
Fulmer will succeed Stephen Zoloth, the founding dean
of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Under Zoloth’s leadership for
more than 10 years, Bouvé achieved new levels of excellence, including a
broad range of new undergraduate and graduate offerings and vastly
expanded research programs.
The Bouvé College of Health Sciences
is a center of excellence in health education, research and service. The
college offers nine undergraduate and 29 graduate programs with an
interdisciplinary emphasis that reflects today’s integrated approach to
health care.