The first-ever Nightingale Endowed Faculty Fellowship has been awarded to Lisa C. Lindley, PhD, RN, FPCN, an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Lindley is a child health services and policy researcher.
One that beareth a torch shadoweth oneself to give light to others.
She received her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and master’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research focuses on health care systems and policy interventions that promote quality, accessible hospice care for children and their families. Dr. Lindley has expertise in advanced statistical techniques, data management, and claims-based data. She has received a NIH pre-doctoral fellow (T32), AHRQ dissertation award (R36), NIH career development award (K01), and NIH research project grant (R01) in support of her research work. Dr. Lindley is a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing.
Dr. Lindley teaches quantitative methodology and health care economics courses in the College of Nursing graduate program. She is also an active member of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association and Pediatric Palliative Care Special Interest Group.
She is a recent recipient of a UT Chancellor’s Professional Promise Research and Creative Achievement Award (2019).