Dr. Susan Salmond Appointed Dean of the School of Nursing

William F. Owen, Jr., MD
President, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

I am pleased to announce that Susan W. Salmond, EdD, RN, CNE, CTN has accepted the appointment as Dean of our UMDNJ-School of Nursing.

Following a national search, the Board of Trustees has confirmed my selection of Susan Salmond as the ideal candidate to lead our School of Nursing. Since 2007, as interim dean, she has demonstrated boundless enthusiasm and dedication to the important task of graduating the best educated, best prepared and best trained nurses in New Jersey.

Prior to joining the UMDNJ-School of Nursing, Dean Salmond was a professor at Kean University where she was director of graduate programs and then chairperson of the university’s nursing department. She has also served on the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her B.S.N. from Villanova University, her M.S.N. from Seton Hall University and her Doctor of Education degree (Ed.D.) from the Nurse Executive Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her certifications include Certified Nurse Educator (CNE), Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) and Transcultural Nursing (CTN). She is active in several nursing professional associations, and is a recipient of the C.A.R.E. award for excellence in education from the New Jersey State Nurses Association.

Dean Salmond is a leader in the global movement to implement and support evidence-based nursing practice across health care environments. She is co-director of the nursing school’s New Jersey Center for Evidence-Based Practice — one of only three United States collaborating centers of the international Joanna Briggs Institute. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and presented nationally on topics including evidence-based practice, nursing care delivery, nursing leadership, and orthopaedic nursing.

We are confident that under Dean Salmond’s stewardship, our nursing school will see new heights of scholarly achievement and prominence. Please join me in congratulating Dean Salmond on this wonderful accomplishment.

William F. Owen, Jr., M.D.
President