Eileen Fry-Bowers, PhD, JD, RN, CPNP-PC, FAAN, is Dean and Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. Her academic experience includes faculty and leadership appointments in Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Public Health and her extensive clinical experience spans acute care facilities, specialty and community-based clinics, and military institutions. She is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner, a licensed attorney, and a veteran of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps.

She has served as Chair and Vice Chair for the AAN Expert Panel on Child, Adolescent and Family. She was a Faculty Policy Fellow for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), served two terms on AACN’s Health Policy Advisory Council, currently sits on the AACN Board of Directors and serves on its Finance Committee. Her scholarship falls into three categories: examining the impact of social policies on child and family health, especially among vulnerable and underserved populations; exploring the impact of legislative and regulatory change on the delivery of pediatric health services; and investigating healthcare workforce education, practice, legal and ethics issues. She has authored multiple journal articles and book chapters in seminal nursing and health care texts on advocacy, child health, and health policy and her work was cited during a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As Dean, Dr. Fry-Bowers leverages innovative public-private partnerships to transform nursing and health professions education and health care delivery with the goal of promoting health among all populations and eliminating health inequity.