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Ann Whall, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA
Professor, School of Nursing
Associate Director, UM Geriatrics Center

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Room 2304
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482
Telephone: (734) 763-1475
FAX: (734) 936-5525
annwhall@umich.edu

Education
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
2001-2005 UK Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Scholar, United Kingdom University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award
1993-1995 NIH/NINR Senior Fellowship, Department of Neurology and Michigan Alzheimer Disease Research Center, the University of Michigan
1984-1985 Geriatric Mental Health, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, MI

PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1978
MSN, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1965
BSN, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1963

Research Interests
Geriatric nursing
Dementia care; role of implicit memory in maintaining functioning in dementia

Current Research
Nursing approaches to behavior of cognitively impaired nursing home residents
Expert nurses use of implicit memory with the cognitively impaired

NIH/NIA 5 year funded study "Aggression in dementia: Background and proximal factors

Recent Publications
Whall, A.L., & Hicks, F.D. (2002). The unrecognized paradigm shift in nursing: Implications, problems, and possibilities. Nursing Outlook, 50(2), 72-76.

Whall, A. (2004). Looking past, looking forward: The preferred gerontological nursing future. Doris Schwartz Award acceptance speech delivered 11/22/03. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 30(4), 46.

Whall, A.L. (2005). "Lest we forget": An issue concerning the Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP). Nursing Outlook, 53(1), 1.

Fitzpatrick, J.J., & Whall, A.L. (2005). Conceptual Models of Nursing: Analysis and Application. NY: Pearson Prentice-Hall.

Whall, A.L., Parahoo, K., & Sinclair, M. (in press). A philosophic analysis of evidence based nursing. Nursing Outlook.

Other
Ann L. Whall, a 2002 Distinguished Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, was funded in Fall 2003 by the United Kingdom Commission for a "Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award" to continue her work with the University of Ulster (UU) in Northern Ireland. The award is for two years and supports the use of video-teleconferencing for "guest class lectures" in graduate nursing classes at UU and the University of Michigan.