Greer Glazer, PhD, RN, CNP, FAAN, is Dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and associate vice president for Health Affairs at UC. She previously served as dean and professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston College of Nursing and director of parent-child nursing and professor at Kent State University.

Dr. Glazer combines teaching, research, practice, community service, and policy work. She has transformed nursing education and influenced hundreds of thousands of nurses through new admission processes, innovative pedagogy, and modern learning environments. She has taught undergraduate and graduate-level students and developed new programs at public and private universities and colleges large and small. To date, she's been responsible for more than 100 publications and 220 presentations, in addition to abstracts and contributions to newspapers, radio and television. She co-authored the book Nursing Leadership from the Outside In and is the cofounder and legislative editor of the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN).

She was a 1998 Fulbright Scholar in Israel, RWJ Executive Nurse Fellow, Chair of the American Nurses Association Political Action Committee, recipient of NLN Mary Adelaide Nutting Award for Outstanding Leadership in Nursing Education award, recipient of the 2018 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability in Nursing Education Lectureship Award, recipient of the 2019 AACN Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award, recipient of the 2019 AACN Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award, and member of the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Committee.

Return to the Hall of Fame page.