Lorna Finnegan
Lorna Finnegan, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN, joined Loyola University Chicago in 2019 as Professor and Dean of the Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
She has many years of academic research, teaching, clinical practice, and leadership experience. Prior to coming to Loyola, she served in leadership positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing as Executive Associate Dean and Department Head. Early in her career, she was Founding Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Most recently, as President of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, the leading organization devoted to quality nurse practitioner education, she led national efforts to transition nurse practitioner programs to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree.
Through her scholarship, practice, and leadership, Finnegan has integrated big data analytics, strategic academic-practice partnerships, creative pedagogies, and policy-changing leadership strategies to increase access to primary care and improve health equity in vulnerable and underserved populations within the context of their lives. She has received NIH R01 funding for her symptom cluster research in adults with multiple chronic illnesses and awards for teaching, research, and leadership. She has been a visiting scholar at universities in Thailand, South Africa, and South Korea.
Finnegan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and she recently completed the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Wharton Executive Leadership Fellowship and the AACN Advancing Academic Leadership for New Deans program. Finnegan received her BSN, MS, and PhD degrees from UIC.
Lorna Finnegan, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN, joined Loyola University Chicago in 2019 as Professor and Dean of the Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
She has many years of academic research, teaching, clinical practice, and leadership experience. Prior to coming to Loyola, she served in leadership positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing as Executive Associate Dean and Department Head. Early in her career, she was Founding Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Most recently, as President of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, the leading organization devoted to quality nurse practitioner education, she led national efforts to transition nurse practitioner programs to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree.
Through her scholarship, practice, and leadership, Finnegan has integrated big data analytics, strategic academic-practice partnerships, creative pedagogies, and policy-changing leadership strategies to increase access to primary care and improve health equity in vulnerable and underserved populations within the context of their lives. She has received NIH R01 funding for her symptom cluster research in adults with multiple chronic illnesses and awards for teaching, research, and leadership. She has been a visiting scholar at universities in Thailand, South Africa, and South Korea.
Finnegan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and she recently completed the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Wharton Executive Leadership Fellowship and the AACN Advancing Academic Leadership for New Deans program. Finnegan received her BSN, MS, and PhD degrees from UIC.