Patricia A. Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a Professor and Rachel Z. Booth Endowed Chair in Nursing at the School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham, Alabama. She joined the UAB faculty in August 2008 after having served 26 years in the US Army Nurse Corps, where she held clinical, administrative, educational, and research positions. Prior to military retirement as a Colonel, she was the Chief, Department of Nursing Science, Academy of Health Sciences, Ft. Sam Houston, TX. At UAB, she teaches and mentors students in the PhD and the Executive Doctorate of Nursing Practice Programs. She conducts research on the nursing workforce and nursing’s contributions to patient safety and quality outcomes. Dr. Patrician is Co-Director of the VA Quality Scholars (VAQS) fellowship program at the Birmingham, AL site and mentors post-doctoral nurses, physicians, and pharmacists in quality improvement and improvement science activities. She also co-directs the Deep South Quality and Safety Regional Collaborative at UAB School of Nursing.
Dr. Patrician is the recipient of many awards, including the 2004 Anita Newcomb McGee (Army Nurse of the Year) Award and the Legion of Merit for military service, the Research Mentor Award from the Academy Health Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues, the UAB Graduate School Dean’s Award for Mentorship from UAB, and the Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award from UAB for interprofessional collaboration across Schools. Dr. Patrician has authored/co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters.
Dr. Patrician earned a BSN from Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; MSN in Critical Care Nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas; Masters of Strategic Studies from the US Army War College, Carlisle, PA; and PhD in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
