Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, FAANP(H) is Director of the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy and Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland Ohio where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She earned a BSN (Georgetown University), MS in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (The Ohio State University), PhD in Nursing (New York University), and MBA (CWRU). Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Georgetown University (1990), and an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing (2011). In 2020 she was appointed a Distinguished University Professor at CWRU.

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Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 400 publications, including 85 books. She has received the AJN Book of the Year Award 22 times. In 2021, with Dr. Mary Beth Modic, she published a book: Luminaries of the Past: Stories of Fifty Extraordinary Nurses, to share stories of nurses who have changed healthcare.

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She has received numerous honors and awards, including induction into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) in 1982 and recognition as an AAN Living Legend in 2017. She served as AAN President from 1997-1999. In 2019 she was awarded the International Council of Nurses and Florence Nightingale Foundation International Achievement Award recognizing her contribution to advancing international nursing education through research, innovative conceptual models, and theory development.