Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb named inaugural Sarah E. Allison Professor for Research and Self-Care

Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb has been named the inaugural Sarah E. Allison Professor for Research and Self-Care. Funded by recently deceased Johns Hopkins School of Nursing alumna Sarah Elizabeth Allison, the endowed chair was established to recognize nursing theorist Dorothea Orem for her Self-Care Deficit Theory and to promote research that helps patients maintain dignity, function, and well-being. Allison, class of 1953, worked with Orem on the theory and brought its tenets to the Wilmer Eye Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she served as clinical director of nursing in the 1970s.

As a trailblazer in cardiovascular care and patient safety, Himmelfarb has aimed her work at reducing health disparities and improving the quality of care and outcomes for cardiovascular and critical care patients. She is immediate past president of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association and has served on numerous National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association panels. She is co-author of the new Hypertension Guideline of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology and has been influential in expanding patient and provider knowledge about the implications of hypertension for treatment and the health of the general population.

Himmelfarb serves as associate dean for research, leading the JHSON's Office for Science and Innovation, and as director of the Helene Fuld Leadership Program for the Advancement of Patient Safety and Quality. As deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translation Research, she has been a leader in the field of research, enhancing and promoting best practices around participant recruitment/retention and community engagement.

She was recently inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.

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