Three Women Professors Named Inaugural Endowed Chairs at Universities

Tetine Sentell has been named the inaugural Chin Sik and Hyun Sook Chung Endowed Chair in Public Health Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She is a professor of public health studies and has taught at the university for the past 15 years. She previously served as chair of the Office of Public Health Studies and interim dean of the Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health.

Dr. Sentell received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Middlebury College in Vermont and her master’s degree in experimental psychology from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She holds a second master’s degree in political science and a Ph.D. in health services and policy analysis from the University of California, Berkeley.

Karen J. Foli has been named the inaugural Louise Herrington Endowed Chair in Mental Health Nursing at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She comes to her new role from Purdue University in Indiana, where she serves as a professor of nursing. Her extensive research on psychological trauma and nurse-specific trauma led her to co-authoring The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing (Sigma, 2019).

Dr. Foli holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Indiana State University, a master’s degree in nursing with an emphasis on nursing administration from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in healthcare communications from the University of Illinois.

Amy Millicent Morris has been named the inaugural Michael Bruce Jones, M.D. Chair in the School of the Arts at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has served as a professor of art history with the university for over a decade. In addition to her professorial appointment, she currently serves as director of the School of the Arts.

Dr. Morris holds a master’s degree in art history from Kent State University in Ohio and a Ph.D. in northern Renaissance art from Indiana University.

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