One of the pioneers in nursing education at Johns Hopkins and in the nation, M. ADELAIDE NUTTING was a member of the Class of 1891 and served as superintendent of nurses and principal of the school for nurses from 1895 to 1907. In 1914, mindful of the connection between financial independence and educational freedom, Ms. Nutting asked the nursing alumnae to establish an endowment fund. Nursing graduates rose to the challenge and set an ambitious goal. Throughout the next 70 years, despite two major wars and a worldwide economic depression, nursing alumnae and, later, alumni contributed to the cause. Ms. Nutting died in 1948. Decades later, at the 1984 dedication of the School of Nursing as an independent academic division at Johns Hopkins, the Nurses’ Alumni Association proudly announced the endowment of the M. Adelaide Nutting Chair.
M. Adelaide Nutting Chair
School of Nursing
Established in 1984 by the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association in memory of M. Adelaide Nutting
Held by Marie T. Nolan
MARIE T. NOLAN, Ph.D., MPH, RN, is internationally known for her work on patient and family decision making in the face of critical illness. Her pioneering end-of-life research has revealed that most critically ill patients prefer shared decision making with their family and physician, instead of the autonomous decision making model prevalent in clinical practice.
Dr. Nolan is the executive vice dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing She also previously served as associate dean for Academic Affairs, chair of the Department of Acute and Chronic Care and director of the PhD Program. She was also past president of the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN).
Dr. Nolan was the Johns Hopkins director of the China PhD Program Collaboration between Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) and JHSON funded by the China Medical Board of New York. This collaboration led to PUMC producing the first graduates of a PhD program in nursing in China. Widely published in the nursing and multidisciplinary research literature, Dr. Nolan received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association and was inducted into the Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame for her work.
Dr. Nolan holds a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.