Virginia Tilden, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.

  • Professor, School of Nursing
  • Special Assistant to the Dean, OHSU School of Nursing

Biography

Virginia Tilden, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. is Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research in the School of Nursing at OHSU. She earned her undergraduate degree in nursing from Georgetown University, and her master's and PhD degrees in nursing from the University of California San Francisco. Her postdoctoral certificate in Clinical Bioethics is from the School of Medicine at the University of Washington. She has a long track record of clinical research on improving end-of-life care and treatment decision-making for terminally ill patients. She has been PI of one NIH R03 and three NIH R01-funded research studies (and co-investigator of others), and is the author or co-author of 105 scholarly publications, primarily focused on her program of research on improving end-of-life care. In addition, she has successfully initiated interprofessional education programs over the last two decades in multiple roles as faculty, program director, and dean. As Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (2003-2011), she was instrumental in bringing the University into the national Health Professions Education Collaborative (HPEC). In 2010 she authored an invitational paper for the IOM on the future of nursing education in which she emphasized interprofessional education. To accelerate the national agenda on collaborative care, in the past five years she has served on national advisory committees to advance team-based care, care transitions, primary care transformation, the role of the RN in primary care, and teaching in patient centered medical homes. This service has been to the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation;American College of Physicians;Primary Care Progress;Society for General Internal Medicine;and the VA's National Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education. At OHSU, she has been a member of the Interprofessional Initiative Advisory Council since its inception in 2013. She is the lead author of a measure of teamness in clinical teams as they role model interprofessional competencies to IPE student groups.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S.N., 1967, Georgetown Univ.
    • M.S., 1971, University of California San Francisco
    • Ph.D., 1981, University of California San Francisco

  • Certifications

    • Certificate in Clinical Bioethics 1989 University of Washington

Honors and awards

  • Fellow, Western Academy of Nurses
  • Suzanne H. Brouse Lectureship, University of Michigan School of Nursing
  • Leading the Way Award, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Midwest Nursing Research Society
  • Rebecca Sealy Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston School of Nursing
  • 27th Helen Nahm Research Lecturer, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing
  • Featured in Nursing Research: Committed to the Public Trust (video by NINR)
  • Pathfinder Distinguished Researcher Award, Friends of the NINR
  • 19th Annual LaVerne Gallman Lecturer, University of Texas-Austin School of Nursing
  • 5th Annual Lola Fehr Lecturer, University of Colorado School of Nursing
  • Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Distinguished Research Lectureship Award, Western Institute of Nursing
  • Nursing Research Award, Oregon Nurses Association
  • Youmans Spaulding Distinguished Professorship, Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing
  • Archon Award, Sigma Theta Tau International
  • The John F. McCreary Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of British Columbia
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing
  • Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
  • Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing
  • Marquam Hill Lecturer, Oregon Health & Science University
  • The President's Excellence in Teaching Award, Oregon Health &Science University
  • Nurse of the Year Award, Georgetown University School of Nursing
  • Teaching Faculty for the Interprofessional Education program, 2013-2016

Publications

Selected publications

  • Mladenovic, J. & Tilden, V.P. Strategies for overcoming barriers to IPE at a health sciences university (2017). Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 8, 10-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2017.05.002

Publications