Overview
Catherine Lynch Gilliss, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Nursing at the Duke University School of Nursing and holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Appointed as Dean of the Duke University School of Nursing in 2004, Dr. Gilliss was the first alumna in the history of the School to hold that position. She served for ten years as Dean of the School of Nursing and Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs at Duke University, stepping down in August 2014. She will be on leave for the 2014-2015 academic year, during which she will be a Fellow in the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute.
For over 40 years, Dr. Gilliss has held faculty appointments in universities offering in baccalaureate and higher degrees in nursing. For the last twenty years she has held significant and progressively more responsible administrative leadership positions in academic nursing, including Chair, UCSF’s Department of Family Health Nursing (1993-1998), Dean, Yale University School of Nursing (1998-2004) and Dean and Vice Chancellor at Duke (2004-2014). Her own engagement in academic leadership and the leadership and governance of professional societies (President, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties; President, American Academy of Nursing; Regent, University of Portland; Board Member, Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers [TROSA]) has strengthened her commitment to leadership development in others. Dr. Gilliss serves as a Director of CHIMERIX, a publically traded biopharmaceutical company devoted to discovery, development and commercialization of novel, oral antivirals in areas of high unmet medical need.
She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, has been honored as Distinguished Alumna by UCSF and Duke Universities and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau. She has been awarded honorary degrees by Yale University (MHA) and the University of Portland (DHL).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Sleep symptoms signaling the menopausal transition.
Journal Article Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · August 2023 Study objectivesTo describe changes in sleep quality and associated sleep symptoms as women begin menopausal transition compared with premenopausal controls.MethodsIn a repeated-measures design, we analyzed data collected every 2-6 months ... Full text CiteSleep Self-Report and Actigraphy Measures in Healthy Midlife Women: Validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.
Journal Article Journal of women's health (2002) · July 2022 Background: Validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) has not been established for midlife women before menopause, and evidence suggests that two-factor or three-factor models may be more informative than the PSQI global score der ... Full text CiteNurse practitioner students as an essential workforce: The lessons of coronavirus disease 2019.
Journal Article Nursing outlook · May 2021 BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted the education and clinical training of nursing students. Clinical sites shut out students over low equipment supplies, physical distancing requirements, and redeployment of staff.Purp ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Skelly Emergency Fund
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Gertrude E. Skelly Charitable Foundation · 2014 - 2015Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2009 - 2012Survival and Age Biases in Gene Associations with Coronary Disease
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2011View All Grants