Dr. Linda Gibson-Young, professor in the School of Nursing (AUSON), was inducted to the National Academies of Practice (NAP) as a Distinguished Scholar & Nursing Academy Fellow of NAP. Class of 2021 Fellows were welcomed into the National Academies of Practice as part of a virtual awards and induction ceremony on March 20, 2021.
Gibson-Young, who has a Ph.D. in nursing and is certified as a family nurse practitioner (ANCC) and nurse educator, joined AUSON in Dec. 2016. In 2016, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) and named the Leadership for Academic Nursing Program (LANP) Fellow with the American Association of Colleges in Nursing (AACN). In 2015, she received the Outstanding Research Award from The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF).
A certified Asthma Educator, her research areas include rural health disparities in child asthma, school-based health education interventions, population health outcomes in Alabama and health behaviors and outcomes in children and adolescents.
Fellowship in the National Academies of Practice is an honor extended to those who have excelled in their profession and are dedicated to furthering interprofessional practice, scholarship and policy in support of interprofessional care. The central purpose of NAP is to advise public policy makers on health care issues using NAP's unique perspective — that of expert practitioners and scholars joined in interprofessional dialogue and advocacy.
Founded 40 years ago in 1981, NAP is an interprofessional, nonprofit organization, with membership representing a range of health care professions willing to serve as distinguished advisors to health care policy makers in Congress and elsewhere. The mission of the National Academies of Practice is to serve as distinguished professionals advancing interprofessional healthcare by fostering collaboration and advocating policies in the best interest of individuals and communities.
The 14 academies of practice within the National Academies of Practice include: Allopathic and Osteopathic Medicine, Athletic Training, Audiology, Dentistry, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Podiatric Medicine, Psychology, Social Work, Speech-Language Pathology and Veterinary Medicine.
For more information on the National Academies of Practice, please visit napractice.org.
