Linda R Phillips, RN, PhD, FAAN, FGSA

Senior Director of Research & Education, Arizona Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program, UA Center on Aging
Professor Emerita, UCLA Nursing

Degree(s)

  • PhD, Clinical Nursing Research Gerontology & Community Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1980
  • MN, Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1973
  • BSN, Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1969
  • BS, Nursing, Western Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1966
Fellowship
Tucson Public Voices Project Sponsored by the University of Arizona, Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona and National OpEd Project, 2019
Gerontological Society of America , 2001
American Academy of Nursing, Inducted, 1986
Pre Doctoral Fellow, Individual National Research Service Award, Division of Nursing, HEW, 1980
Honors and Awards
Mary Stark Harper Interviewee by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence, 2021
FBI Citizen's Academy, 2019
Named among 100 Inspiring Nursing Professors to Watch in 2014 by Online LPN to RN, Diversity Nursing.Com, 2-14
University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2009
Doris Schwarz Award for Gerontological Nursing Research, Gerontological Society of America, 2007
Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Pathfinder Award, 2005
Gerontologist of the Year, Arizona Geriatric Society, 2005
Leo B. Hart Humanitarian Award, University of Arizona Alumni, 2005
First Western Institute of Nursing/John A. Hartford Foundation Award for Gerontological Nursing, 2001
University of Arizona College of Nursing College of Nursing 40th Anniversary Award for Excellence in Research, 1997
Elisabeth McWilliams Founder's Award for Excellence in Research, Sigma Theta Tau, International Nursing Honorary Society, 1995
Mortar Board Citation Award, University of Arizona, 1988
First Award for Excellence in Research, Beta Mu Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau, International Nursing Honorary Society, 1986
Distinguished Practitioner, National Academics of Practice, 1985
Book of the Year, American Journal of Nursing, 1981
Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, Arizona Foundation, 1978
Excellence in Clinical Nursing Research, University of Arizona College of Nursing, 1978
Isabelle Hampton Robb Memorial Award, American Nurses' Foundation, 1977