Many of you may know my friend and colleague Sheila Ryan, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. Sheila is a Professor, Charlotte Peck Leinemann and Distinguished Alumni Endowed Chair, and Director of International Programs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing. Sheila has served as President of NLN and as an executive officer for AACN. Sheila is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and has served on many programs and committees for the past two decades. Sheila has been a nursing dean for 22 years at two universities and has board service with IHI, IBHI and RJW/IOM committees. Sheila is presently Chair of the Board of AIHA, American International Healthcare Alliance.
Sheila has been working on the idea of neighborhood health networks as a potentially powerful tool to serve disadvantaged populations right where they live. Here is an outline of the neighborhood health networks concept, by Jo Ellen Kerner and Sheila Ryan.
Barbara Ross Lee D.O.
