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About Ruth McCorkle
- Margaret Ruth McCorkle FAAN, FAPOS (born March 4, 1941) is an international leader and award-winning pioneer in oncology nursing.
- She is currently the Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing at the Yale School of Nursing.McCorkle's professional biography includes research and working as a Professor of Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing in Seattle, Washington and as a Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and an Associate Director of Cancer Control at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Comprehensive Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.McCorkle is a prolific writer and her published research appears in many professional nursing and medical journals in the United States and abroad.
- She has received many prestigious awards for her ground-breaking research.
- Most notably, she is the first non-medical research recipient of a National Cancer Institute Research Training Grant and this opened the door for other disciplines to apply for these training grants.
- She was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1990.
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