Palliative

  • New head of PhD program Terrah Akard at her desk

    Akard appointed to lead PhD in Nursing Science program

    Associate Professor Terrah Foster Akard, PhD’08, MSN’01, FAAN, has been named director of the PhD in Nursing Science program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Akard, a Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow and noted scholar in pediatric palliative care, had been… Read More

    Mar. 20, 2021

  • Vanderbilt researcher Mary Jo Gilmer, with Misha, a teddy bear goldendoodle

    Vanderbilt nursing professor named to International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

    Associate Professor Terrah Foster Akard, PhD’08, MSN’01, FAAN, has been named director of the PhD in Nursing Science program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Akard, a Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow and noted scholar in pediatric palliative care, had been… Read More

    Apr. 7, 2020