2012 international new Fellows - American Academy of Nursing

siOban nElsOn, pHD, Rn, FCaHs
Sioban Nelson is Dean and Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the
University of Toronto.
Prior to assuming this position in 2005, Dr. Nelson was Head of the School of Nursing at the
University of Melbourne. A highly respected historian and policy scholar, she has published
9 books (2 monographs and 7 edited collections), 18 book chapters, and 34 peer-reviewed
papers. Her eighth book, Notes on Nightingale, The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon, a
collection of essays on Florence Nightingale in honor of the centenary of her death, co-edited
with Anne Marie Rafferty, was published in 2010 by Cornell University Press. Other work
includes, ‘Say little do much’: nursing, nuns and hospitals in the nineteenth century, University
of Pennsylvania Press (2001), a history of religious hospital foundation and nursing in the
nineteenth century; and the prize winning Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, Cornell
University Press (2006) (with Suzanne Gordon), a groundbreaking work on the challenges facing
contemporary nursing. She is co-editor of the Culture and Politics of Healthcare Work series for
Cornell University Press.
Dr. Nelson’s interests include the regulation of health professionals, mobility and the global
health workforce, and the transnational history of nursing. In 2012 she served as Commissioner
on the Canadian Nurses Association National Expert Panel on the future of the health system
that produced the landmark report, “A nursing call to action”, and is co-chair of the Canadian
Academy of Health Sciences Assessment on “Scopes of practice in health care.”
Hong Kong
sYlVia FUng, DHs, msC, Rn
Sylvia Fung the Chief Nurse of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, appointed in 2008, taking
care of 20,000 nurses and nursing services in 40 hospitals.
Dr. Fung graduated in Hong Kong in 1970s as a general nurse and registered midwife and
has been working as a clinical nurse for 13 years. After completed healthcare education, she
was appointed a nurse teacher in a major School of Nursing cum School of Midwifery in Hong
Kong. She was awarded a Master in Business Administration (U.K.) and a Master of Science in
Hospital & Healthcare Management (U.K.) in 1990s. Dr. Fung then took up various senior nurse
manager posts in a 1,200-bed general hospital and then as the cluster general manager of
seven hospitals.
Dr. Fung is the adjunct professors of several universities in Hong Kong and editor of the Journal
of China Nursing Management. Sylvia is now the President of Hong Kong Midwives Association
as well as serving in various government boards and councils including the Elderly Commission,
Nursing Council, Midwives Council. She is the immediate past regional representative of the
International Confederation of Midwives.
Dr. Fung has received the Best Staff Award of Hong Kong Hospital Authority in 2004 and
Florence Nightingale Award of the International Red Cross in 2005 for her exemplary
commitment in the profession.
FRanCEs Kam YUEt WOng, pHD, Rn
Frances Kam Yuet Wong is a nursing professor and an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Health
and Social Sciences that comprises of five departments at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Dr. Wong has extensive clinical experience in the Intensive Care Unit and general medicine.
Her research work and publications are in the areas of advanced nursing practice, transitional
care and nursing education. She has published over 120 refereed articles, edited 3 books and
her works have been cited over 300 times in the literature. She has obtained over $1.5 million
in research funding as a principal investigator and is committed to translating theory to practice.
Exemplary works of such efforts include developing transitional care models for different patient
groups including those who have cardiac, renal, respiratory, stroke conditions and palliative
needs. Dr. Wong has also led a team to test and confirm the validity of the Omaha System used
among the Chinese population and the system is now translated and available on the website.
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