Boston College

More than 350 national healthcare leaders, alumni, faculty, and students attended a daylong celebration on October 21 to welcome Susan Gennaro, new dean of the William F. Connell School of Nursing. Beverly Malone, CEO of the National League for Nursing, addressed the group at lunch. Later there was a round table discussion on the day’s theme, “Leadership for Advancing Nursing Science and Transforming Care,” featuring panelists Claire Fagin, dean emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania; Joyce C. Clifford, president of the Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership; Steven Freedman, associate dean of Harvard Medical School; Margaret Grey, dean of the Yale School of Nursing; and Gennaro. “It was truly heartening for me to interact with the alumni and medical communities that care so passionately about Boston College,” said Gennaro. “We are going to tap into that passion.” Above, in Conte Forum’s Shea Room are (l-r) Debra Manning Lundquist ’85, Dean Susan Gennaro, Angela Lee ’76, and Sara Dolan Looby PhD ’08.