National Program Office Bios

Jacquelyn (Jackie) Campbell, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Program Director

Jacquelyn Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and a professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her B.S.N., M.S.N. and Ph.D. are from the schools of nursing at Duke University, Wright State University and the University of Rochester, respectively. She has been engaged in advocacy policy work and has conducted research in the areas of family violence and health disparities related to trauma since 1980. Campbell, who has been at Hopkins since 1993, has received funding continuously as a primary investigator since 1984 on National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other governmental research awards, including 10 major NIH, National Institute of Justice or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research grants and has published more than 150 articles and seven books on violence against women. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing and was a member of the congressionally appointed U.S. Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence. In addition, she has served on the Board of Directors of the House of Ruth Battered Women's Shelter. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Family Violence Prevention Fund and has served on three major Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committees and on the Planning Committee for the 2007 IOM Global Violence Prevention Workshop. She received the 2005 American Society of Criminology Vollmer Award, the 2006 Pathfinder Award for Nursing Research of the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, and was the IOM Senior Nurse Scholar in Residence for 2005-06.

Maryjoan Ladden, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Senior Program Officer

Dr. Ladden is Senior Program Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Human Capital Team. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as interim Chief Programs Officer of the American Nurses Association (ANA) where she provided strategic direction, integration and coordination for ANA programs. Dr. Ladden is a nurse practitioner and is Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow from 2004 to 2007, she focused on improving health care quality, safety, and collaboration among health professionals. Dr. Ladden is Chair of the Nursing Planning Committee for America's Health Insurance Plans, and is a member of both the National Medical Advisory Board of Take Care Health Systems, the National Advisory Committee of Transitional Care Models for Elders, funded by the Commonwealth Fund, the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Task Force on Continuing Education in the Health Professions.  In 2007, Dr. Ladden was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy Nursing. She received her B.S. in nursing from the University of Connecticut, an M.S. from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D., with Distinction, from Boston College School of Nursing.

 

Angela Barron McBride, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
NAC Chair

Angela Barron McBride is Distinguished Professor- University Dean Emerita at Indiana University School of Nursing and Consulting Professor at Duke University School of Nursing (2008-09).  During her tenure as dean, she served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs- Nursing within Clarian Health Partners, the largest hospital network in Indiana and one of the largest in the United States. Currently, she is a member of the Clarian Board, and chairs the board's Committee on Quality and Patient Safety. She served as president of Sigma Theta Tau International (1987–1989) and of the American Academy of Nursing (1993–1995). Dr. McBride is known for her contributions to women's health, currently serving on the board of the Society for Women's Health Research. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's Division 35 (women's health) and Division 38 (health psychology) and received the latter's "Outstanding Contributions to Nursing and Health Psychology" Award in 1995; that same year, she was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine. She is actively involved in an assortment of leadership-development programs, chairing the National Advisory Committee of the RWJF's Nurse Faculty Scholars Program and writing a book tentatively entitled The Growth and Development of Nurse Leaders.  In 2006, she was named a "Living Legend" by the American Academy of Nursing.