Austin to be inducted into American Academy of Nursing

Assistant Professor Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, NI-BC, FAMIA, FNAP, will be inducted into the American Academy of Nursing after being selected for the 2024 Class of Fellows. Holly Shaw, PhD, RN, a Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership director, and Rhonda Kazik, DNP, RN, CENP, chief nurse executive at Essentia Health and Nursing Collaboratory member, were selected to be Fellows as well.

The achievement is considered one of the highest honors in the nursing profession. The Academy represents nursing’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, administration, practice and academia.

Austin’s research capitalizes on her clinical background as a chiropractor and a nurse and integrates it with informatics methods to examine patients’ biopsychosocial, whole-person needs. Through her research and expertise in consumer and clinical informatics, she seeks to empower individuals to better care for themselves, using technology to advance person-centered care and achieve better health and wellbeing. Austin, who is an alum of the school’s PhD program, is the specialty coordinator for the nursing informatics Doctor of Nursing Practice program and the director of the Center for Nursing Informatics.

Shaw joined the directorate of the school’s Densford Center in 2022. She represents the International Council of Nurses within the United Nations system, including Civil Society leadership in appointed and elected positions in the Department of Global Communication and the Economic and Social Council.

Kazik was named CNO of Essentia Health East Market in 2020 and previously served as assistant professor and nursing chair at Fresno Pacific University. She has also served system chief nursing officer at Fresno, California-based Community Medical Centers.

Two additional alums named FAANs

Two additional alumni of the school were also named fellows. Angela Mund, DNP ‘08, CRNA, MSN ‘99, BSN ’90, is a professor at Medical University of South Carolina College of Health Profession and serves as chair of the Clinical Sciences department. Luz G. Huntington-Moskos, PhD, MSN ’05, RN, CPN, is an associate professor at University of Louisville School of Nursing and serves as the director of the Community Engagement Core for the Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences.

The inductees will be honored at the Academy’s annual Health Policy Conference in November in Washington, D.C.