Hahn Inducted as Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 1, 2011) -- Ellen Hahn, professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing and College of Public Health, recently was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing at a formal ceremony in Washington. D.C.

Hahn is one of seven members of the UK College of Nursing to become a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. The Academy serves the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge. The academy's 1,800 members, known as fellows, are nursing's most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice and research.

Hahn is also a faculty associate at the UK Markey Cancer Center and directs the Clean Indoor Air Partnership and the Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy in the College of Nursing. She is also the assistant director of the Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management in the College of Nursing. Through the Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy, she and her colleagues have assisted many of Kentucky’s 30 communities which have gone smoke-free.
 

Hahn is currently principal investigator on a five-year, Rural Smoke-Free Communities research project funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. She also directs multiple community-based studies to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke and radon.

In 2000, Hahn was awarded a three-year fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse Program to enhance her tobacco policy research skills. In recognition of her leadership in smoke-free policy research, she was awarded the 2004 John D. Slade M.D. Memorial Advocacy Award from the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs section of the American Public Health Association.

In 2007, she was named Distinguished University Scientist by the Kentucky Academy of Science and in 2008, her Clean Indoor Air Partnership was designated a UK Commonwealth Collaborative. In 2010, Hahn was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. She is also the co-chair of the UK Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative.

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