Victor J. Dzau, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs, announced to Duke Medicine Faculty and Staff today that Marion E. Broome, PhD, FAAN, has been named the next dean of the Duke University School of Nursing and vice chancellor of nursing affairs at Duke University.
In addition, Dr. Broome will assume the newly created position of associate vice president for academic affairs for nursing for Duke University Health System. Broome has served as dean of the Indiana University School of Nursing since 2004. She will join Duke on Aug. 1, 2014.
In the announcement, Dr. Dzau thanked the search committee and expressed his appreciation to James Tulsky, MD, professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Chief, Duke Palliative Care, who served as committee chair.
“She is an out-of-the-box thinker who has a strong reputation for collaboration and relationship building,” Dr. Tulsky said of Broome. “She has a tremendous sense of what it means to be a leader, and that makes her uniquely qualified to advance the tremendous progress that has been the story of the School of Nursing in the past decade.”
Read the full announcement by Duke Medicine News and Communications.