Professor May L Wykle, PhD, RN, Faan

May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, FAGHE, is the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. She was a recipient of a National Institutes of Mental Health Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award, and Director of a 5-year Robert Wood Johnson Teaching Nursing Home Project. Dr. Wykle's research interests include geriatric mental health, self-care behaviors among aged cohorts, family caregiving,...See more

May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, FAGHE, is the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. She was a recipient of a National Institutes of Mental Health Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award, and Director of a 5-year Robert Wood Johnson Teaching Nursing Home Project. Dr. Wykle's research interests include geriatric mental health, self-care behaviors among aged cohorts, family caregiving, stresses and strains in elderly physical health, and self-care and compliance of chronically ill aged. She directed a 4-year study funded by the National Center for Nursing Research (NIH) on Black vs. White Caregivers' Formal/Informal Service Use, and a 3-year study funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) on MD Style, Self-Care and Compliance of Chronically Ill Aged. She was a delegate and served on the Planning Committee of the 1993 White House Conference on Aging, and formerly served on the Geriatric/Gerontology Advisory Committee for the Veterans Administration. Her work has been recognized both locally and nationally with numerous awards. Dr. Wykle has authored many articles and has edited 5 books, including Serving Minority Elders in the 21st Century (1999). She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, and the Association of Gerontology in Higher Education. She is on the Board of the Rosalynn Carter Family Caregiving Institute, and served as the first Pope eminent scholar in aging. See less