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PhD, RN, Dean and Professor
School of Nursing Director, Interprofessional Education University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD

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In January 2013, Dr. Jane M. Kirschling was appointed Dean and Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Director of Interprofessional Education for the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She previously held administrative and faculty positions at the University of Kentucky, University of Southern Maine, University of Rochester, and Oregon Health and Science University.

At the national level, Dr. Kirschling served on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Board of Directors from 2003 through 2014, and as its President from 2012-2014. She founded the Kentucky Nursing Capacity Consortium and co-convened Kentucky’s Action Coalition. Currently she co-leads the Maryland Action Coalition.

She is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Executive Fellows Program (2000-2003), the AACN -Wharton Executive Leadership Fellows Program (2013), and of Leadership Maryland (2015). She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2009.