Milestone Events

Who Will Care for Us? - February 26, 2004

The year-long celebration of 115 years of nursing at Johns Hopkins began in February 2004 with a special symposium entitled "Who Will Care for Us?" University leaders and faculty, nurses, students, and other health care professionals filled the school’s alumni auditorium to engage in a discussion on the role of nurses in addressing the healthcare and health policies needed to support the ever-growing aging population.

Bill Novelli, CEO and director of AARP, and Claire Fagin, PhD, RN, FAAN, director of the John A. Hartford Foundation’s Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program, joined Dean Martha N. Hill on the panel. ABC News Correspondent Sam Donaldson moderated the discussion.

"Nursing leaders and nursing education have a huge responsibility to care for the aging population," Dean Hill said in her opening remarks. She stressed the need to invest in those who will provide this care and in research that will provide evidence pointing to the best care practices.

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