Name: Suzanne Willard, PhD, CRNP, FAAN
Position: Associate Dean and Advance Practice Clinical Associate Professor
Institute: College of Nursing, Rutgers State University
Place: USA
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Dr. Suzanne Willard has been involved in the field of HIV for over 20 years. As direct care provider,
she initiated clinic services for parents of children who were receiving care at St. Christopher’s
Hospital for Children.
She initiated a clinical program in an academic OB/GYN practice at Temple University Hospital
providing HIV consultative services at the same time that the women received their OB care.
At the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the largest international organization providing
services to pregnant women with HIV, she designed and established programming in Sub-Saharan
Africa to insure the quality of care utilizing a framework of continuous quality improvement.
In 1994, she initiated and chaired the Perinatal Review Program which utilized data to make
recommendations to improve services for pregnant women with HIV in the Philadelphia region. She
has received many honours for her work and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Biography:
Dr. Suzanne Willard has been involved in the field of HIV for over 20 years. As direct care provider,
she initiated clinic services for parents of children who were receiving care at St. Christopher’s
Hospital for Children. In this role she participated in NIH sponsored research studies and explored a
variety of avenues to insure that women and their families receive the array of services that are
required for healthy outcomes. She initiated a clinical program in an academic OB/GYN practice at
Temple University Hospital providing HIV consultative services at the same time that the women
received their OB care. This program has been replicated throughout the City of Philadelphia and
has resulted in a dramatic decrease in perinatal transmission of HIV disease to children. She
replicated these efforts at Drexel University College of Medicine, where she also held appointment
in the College of Nursing – Graduate program. At the Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation,
the largest international organization providing services to pregnant women with HIV, she designed
and established programming in Sub-Saharan Africa to insure the quality of care utilizing a
framework of continuous quality improvement. As a consultant she has worked with a variety of HIV
programs including the Pennsylvania Mid=Atlantic AIDS Education and Training Centre. Most of the
consultative work included reviewing systems of care and making recommendations that would
insure that HIV positive women receive the services that they needed as well as developing and
leading the City of Philadelphia’s efforts to establish a robust quality improvement program for all
Ryan White Funded HIV services. In 1994, she initiated and chaired the Perinatal Review Program
which utilized data to make recommendations to improve services for pregnant women with HIV in
the Philadelphia region. She has provided consultative services have been to many governmental
commissions including the Mayor’s Commission on HIV/AIDS and advisory panels to government
officials as well as the Centres for Disease Control. Dr. Willard was the first nurse to be selected to
be a panel member of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Panel on Antiretroviral
Guidelines for Adult and Adolescents. In this role she was a key advocate for guidelines that are
illustrative of care of women and adherence and inclusive for the variety of care providers, including
advance practice nurses, who provide care to individuals living with HIV. These Guidelines are the
gold standard for treatment both in the US as well as globally. Her research has looked at
adherence, issues of abuse and exercise and their impact on HIV positive women. She has been a
site director of the International HIV/AIDS Nursing Research team. As an educator she designed
academic HIV/AIDS courses for graduate and undergraduate students, she has presented nationally
and internationally. She is a mentor to many individuals nationally and internationally, to insure that
individual living with HIV get services that are of the highest quality. She has published book
chapters and in peer reviewed journals and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. As an advocate for nurses globally, she is President-elect of the
Nurses in AIDS Care. In this role she will continue to focus on insuring that nurses, who are the
primary care providers internationally, have the resources and knowledge in the fight to eradicate
AIDS. She has received many honours for her work and is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Nursing.
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Honours and Awards:
2013 -Chancellor's Excellence in Service Award
2004- Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing inducted 2004.
2006- JANAC Author Award.
2001- Frank Lamendola Achievement Award for Leadership in HIV/AIDS Care, Association of Nurses
in AIDS Care, November 2000.
2012 Women with a Mission – Appreciation Award – August 2001 – present.
1992- Sigma Theta Tau, Nursing Honor Society, elected as a community member, 1992.
1990- University of Pennsylvania, Research Assistantship, School of Nursing, 1990.
1989- Temple University Hospital, Department of Nursing, Recognition of Achievement
1989- annual award to nurse providing significant service to the organization.
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