The selected faculty members were among 250 nurse leaders chosen to join the AAN’s 2022 class of fellows. Two faculty members from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Nursing received one of the most prestigious honors in nursing this fall when they were
inducted as fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.

The faculty members were among 250 nurse leaders selected to join the academy’s 2022 class of fellows. The inductees were recognized for their significant contributions to health and health care at the academy’s annual Health Policy Conference held in October in Washington D.C.

Terry Jones, Ph.D., an associate professor, leads the Nursing Leadership and Organizational Science Concentration within the School of Nursing’s Department of Adult Health and Nursing Systems. In this role, she oversees a variety of courses that equip students for success today while they strive to build a better tomorrow. Additionally, Jones is involved in research that focuses on improving the  nursing work environment and the quality and safety of nursing care across the health care continuum. Her work also analyzes factors that impact leadership development for health care disciplines, such as managerial coaching relationships, graduate education and service-based continuing education. She received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service from the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nursing in 2021 and the Billye Brown Award for Excellence in Leadership in 2016. 

Ingrid Pretzer-Aboff, Ph.D., an associate professor and senior nurse researcher, has worked with people with Parkinson’s disease and their family members in acute care, community and research settings for more than 30 years. Her research focuses on developing interventions that optimize function and improve the daily life and independence of people with this disorder. Her contributions to this  field include establishing efficacy-based, function-focused community care programs and co-founding the first nurse-managed Parkinson’s telehealth clinic in the United States. Most recently she continues her quest to improve lives of people with Parkinson’s by developing and testing a novel medical device that reduces the motor symptoms of the disease by delivering stimulation to the  nervous system. Pretzer-Aboff is an affiliate scholar of the VCU Langston Center for Innovation in Quality & Safety and a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.