Posts Tagged ‘Colleen Conway Welch’

Conway-Welch to step down as School of Nursing dean

November 12, 2012

After serving more than 28 years as dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN), and as the second longest sitting dean of any U.S. nursing school, Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., CNM, the Nancy and Hilliard Travis Professor of Nursing and a national leader in nursing education, will retire from this role at the end…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center observes Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day

October 16, 2012

Vanderbilt’s Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Vanderbilt Breast Center and the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing are joining to observe Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the Vanderbilt Breast Center, located at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. This is Nashville’s and Vanderbilt’s first observance of BRA Day….

Life, and nursing, an adventure for Conway-Welch

October 24, 2008

It all started with a good book. As an eight-year-old, Colleen Conway was a voracious reader. During the summer after third grade, she visited the Gloversville, N.Y., public library and happened across a book about a fictitious nurse named Cherry Ames. “I read the whole series that summer and was so intrigued by all the…

Colleen Conway-Welch Selected as Nashvillian of the Year

January 1, 2004

Colleen Conway-Welch, at the age of 22, didn’t appear afraid of anything. When she contemplated what to do with her life, she thought adventurously. When she considered where to go, she held the world in the palm of her hand.

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