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203NURSING OUTLOOK JULY/AUGUST 2001

The Academy Establishes Two New Expert Panels

During its March meeting, theAmerican Academy of Nursing

Board of Directors voted to establish twonew expert panels. In addition to thealready existing panels, the Academy hasrecognized the Expert Panel onBreastfeeding and the Expert Panel onNursing and History.

In 1999 a small group of Fellows,whose area of expertise focused onbreastfeeding, met informally at theAcademy’s annual meeting. Their discus-sions culminated in the establishment ofan Expert Panel on Breastfeeding. Theevidenced-based health benefits ofbreastfeeding have become generallyacknowledged and new short-term andlong-term benefits for infants andmothers are being documented withincreasing frequency, but the issues of

promoting, facilitating, and protectingbreastfeeding are complex. This panel’swork plan will focus on promoting, facil-itating, and protecting breastfeeding indeveloped and developing countries.Gene Anderson Cranston, PhD, RN,FAAN, has agreed to serve as chair of thisnew panel.

An Expert Panel on Nursing andHistory has been established for thepurpose of exploring the historical link-ages between nursing and public policy.This panel will analyze relationshipsbetween current events and larger histor-ical events, and it will place some of themost controversial and compelling polit-ical and social issues in nursing in theirhistorical context. The Expert Panel onNursing and History will also establish aframework for assembling and inter-

preting the historical context useful toother expert panels. One of the firstprojects the Panel will explore is thecreation of a Nursing and History Website linked to national and internationalnursing history centers, organizations,and repositories. This Panel will bechaired by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson.

Both the Expert Panel on Nursingand History and the Expert Panel onBreastfeeding will hold their first meet-ings on Thursday, October 25, 2001,from 1 PM to 4 PM, during the AmericanAcademy of Nursing Annual Meetingand Conference in Washington, DC.Other Academy Expert Panels willconvene Thursday afternoon as well.These meetings are open to all AcademyFellows. �

Barbara Bush, Diana Mason, MargaretMcClure, and Bill Holzemer attend theICN opening ceremonies.

Kirsten Stallknecht, outgoing President ofICN, with Patricia Grady, MargaretMcClure, and Ada Sue Hinshaw.

Margaret McClure and Ada Sue Hinshawgreet Connie Kruckow, President of theDanish Nurses’ Organisation.

The American Academy of Nursingwas well represented at the recent

Twenty-second International Congress ofNurses (ICN) Quadrennial Conferencein Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition toAda Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN,

President; Margaret McClure, PhD, RN,FAAN, President-Elect; and TerriGaffney, RN, MPA, Executive Director;many Academy Fellows participated inthe conference. A particular highlight ofthe conference included Susie Kim,

DNSc, RN, FAAN, of Seoul, Korea,being awarded the prestigious FlorenceNightingale award. Taiwan will host thecongress in 2005. �

Academy Participates in ICN Quadrennial Conference

A A N P u b l i c a t i o n A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e : Suzanne Feetham, PhD, RN, FAAN, Jaqueline Fawcett,PhD, RN, FAAN, Mary Haack, PhD, RN, FAAN, Deborah Koniak Griffin, EdD, RN, FAAN, Mary Stainton, MS, RNC, FAAN,Antonia Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN, FAAN, and Carole Kenner, DNS, RNC, FAAN, chair