Ora L. Strickland, PhD, DSc (Hon), RN, FAAN

Ora L. Strickland is professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is the first holder of the Independence Foundation Endowed Professorship. She is also a research specialist at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Dr. Strickland served as professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and taught at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She has held nursing positions at Davidson County Health Department and Harlem Hospital Center in New York City.

An internationally known specialist and author in nursing research, measurement, evaluation, maternal and child health, and parenting, Dr. Strickland is founding editor of The Journal of Nursing Measurement. She has presented more than 200 lectures, speeches and workshops. A former columnist for the Baltimore Sun, her column, "Nurse's Station," won two health journalism awards. An Associated Press story about her National Institutes of Health-funded study of premenstrual syndrome has gained national media attention. She is also one of the Emory site principal investigators for the Women's Health Initiative, which is the largest known clinical trial of its kind studying 164,000 postmenopausal women nationally over the course of 13 years.

Dr. Strickland holds a PhD in child development and family relations from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, an MS in maternal and child health nursing from Boston University, and a BA in nursing from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro. She received honorary doctorate of science degrees from the Ohio Medical College, Toledo, and Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. She lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, with her two sons, David and Steven Cantor.

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