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Three Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Jie Deng is the Andrea B. Laporte Endowed Professor. She currently holds the Evan C. Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching. As a scholar, she specializes in head and neck cancer survivorship research, with a particular focus on lymphedema, an under-recognized late effect of cancer therapy. In addition her teaching position, she is faculty director of Penn Nursing’s Laboratory of Innovative & Translational Nursing Research and a senior fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Dr. Deng holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in nursing from Peking University in China and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

J. Margo Brooks Carthon is the Van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. A Penn Nursing faculty member since 2010, she currently serves as the Tyson Family Endowed Chair for Gerontological Research, associate director of the Center for Health Outcomes & Policy Research and director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. With a focus on advancing health equity, her scholarship bridges the history of nursing, health services and outcomes research, and the social determinants of health.

A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, Dr. Brooks Carthon holds a master of nursing degree in psychiatric and adult health from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.

Catherine McDonald is the Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans. Through her significant research on adolescent injury prevention, she has advanced the understanding of ways to prevent the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among adolescents. She holds several leadership roles at Penn, including the Dr. Hildegard Reynold Endowed Term Chair of Primary Care Nursing, chair of the department of family and community health, and co-director of the Penn Injury Science Center. She is also an affiliate in pediatric nursing in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

Dr. McDonald holds a bachelor of nursing degree from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, a master of nursing degree from Monmouth University in New Jersey, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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