Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods

Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, is dean of the School of Nursing and professor in the department of family and child nursing at the University of Washington. In 1989 Dr. Woods helped establish the first NIH-funded Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Washington. Dr. Woods has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the North American Menopause Society, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. Her honors include election to the Institute of Medicine of...See more

Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, is dean of the School of Nursing and professor in the department of family and child nursing at the University of Washington. In 1989 Dr. Woods helped establish the first NIH-funded Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Washington. Dr. Woods has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the North American Menopause Society, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. Her honors include election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and to the American Academy of Nursing. She received the American Nurses Foundation Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award, and in 2003, she received the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research. See less