Former AARP/AAN Fellow Named Director for the Division of Nursing at HRSA

On Wednesday, August 25, the Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions announced the appointment of Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN, FAAN as director for its division of nursing. Sochalski, who currently serves as Associate Professor of Nursing, Faculty Associate in the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and Faculty Master of Hill College House at the University of Pennsylvania, was a 2009 AARP/American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Fellow. She served as a strategic adviser to the Center with emphasis on creating a natural linkage between the AARP and AAN and identifying other connection points that can be leveraged for achieving mutual goals. Sochalski is recognized as a national and international expert in health policy and health services research in nursing.

On accepting the appointment, Sochalski said, “Our health care system is only as strong as the workforce that supports it, and health reform has sounded the clarion call.  It’s a great privilege to join the leadership at HRSA at this propitious moment and to work with them towards our common goal of assuring that the Nation’s health care workforce, now and in the future, can meet its challenges. Building a highly skilled, effectively deployed, and fully-resourced nursing workforce is integral to achieving that goal, and to assuring that all people and communities have access to high-value health care.  I look forward to delivering on that promise.”

Read Congratulatory Letter from CCNA.