On July 22, Teresa Kelechi, Ph.D., the David and Margaret Clare Endowed Chair and interim dean of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Nursing, was one of only 22 nursing researchers worldwide to be inducted by the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony was held at the honor society’s annual conference, held this year in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The new inductees, like the 270 nurse researchers already in the Hall of Fame, were selected because they had achieved significant national and international recognition and improved the profession of nursing and the people it serves through their research.
“I am honored to be joining this group of highly prestigious nurse scientists who have taken their research to the next level and who are improving people's health and quality of life,” said Kelechi.
Kelechi, an internationally recognized expert in wound care, has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and been awarded $10 million in government grant funding for her research, including $5 million in the past five years.
But those are not the metrics by which Kelechi measures the impact of her research. For that, she goes back to the advice a mentor once gave her: “It's not always about publish or perish. It's about changing patient care, changing policy or developing a product that improves the lives of the people for whom we provide our care and our research.” Taking that guidance to heart, she has centered her clinical practice and research on improving the lives of geriatric patients…
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