2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

AAHN Board Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Speakers

Gwyneth Franck

AAHN President, University of Illinois Chicago

Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Meeting

2:00pm EDT

AAHN Pre-Conference Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Pearl Room

1.) Emily Barr, Narrative, Film, and Moral Agency: Teaching Ethics Through Nursing and Healthcare History
2.) Donna Curry, Teaching Healthcare History through Visual and Experiential Learning
3.) Ruth Manchester, Nurses (and Other Medical Personnel) Depicted in WPA Murals

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Moderators

Danielle Glynn

Oncology Nursing Society

Speakers

Emily Barr

University at Buffalo School of Nursing

Donna Curry

Wright State University

Ruth Manchester

Montgomery College

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Meeting

9:30am EDT

A7. Nurses and the Nursing Profession

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Pearl Room

1. Alisa Haushalter, Marie Gill, and Kelly Fulkerson Dikuua The Role of Nursing Theory ThinkTanks in Advancing Nursing Knowledgeand Theory: A historical qualitative study utilizing the Margaret NewmanArchive, 1978-1988
2. Andrej Toth, Building a Modern Nurse: State Policy,Philanthropy, and theProfessionalization of Nursing inInterwar Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)
3. Elizabeth Ahern and Emily Barr, Light, Order, and Authority: VisualizingNursing and Sanitary Science at Scutari
4. Jess Dillard-Wright, Nurses not Nursing: The Profession and Social Movements

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Moderators

Kim Curry

University of Florida

Speakers

Emily Barr

University at Buffalo School of Nursing

Alisa R. Haushalter

Director, Shelby County Health Department

Andrej Toth

Prague University of Economics and Business

Jess Dillard-Wright

University of Massachusetts Amherst

A7 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Pearl Room

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

12:30pm EDT

B7. Nursing in the South

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Pearl Room

1. Christine Ardalan, Nurses Among the Florida Seminole sand Miccosukee, 1934-1971
2. Charlotte Swint, Bringing Nursing and Medical Care toWest Alabama: A Retrospective Reviewof West Alabama Health
3. Valeria Eadler and Alisa R. Haushalter, Services from the 1970s to 2000s A Century of Public Health Nursing:Archival and Material-Culture Evidence from a Southern State

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Moderators

Jess Dillard-Wright

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Speakers

Christine Ardalan

Independent Scholar

Charlotte Swint

Associate Professor, Frontier Nursing University

Valeria Eadler

Middle Tennessee State University

Alisa R. Haushalter

Director, Shelby County Health Department

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

2:15pm EDT

C7. Teaching Nursing History

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Pearl Room

1. Darlla Thompson, From Camp to Clinic: Teaching Nursing History Through the Legacy of Pauline Bray Fletcher and Simulation-Based Learning
2. Sally Ellis Fletcher, Integrating History into a Time Limited Guest Lecture
3. Amber P. Williams, Understanding our roots: engaging students in the history of nursing
4. Cassondra Burks, Using AI in Course Development for a Nursing History Course

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Moderators

Mary Gibson

Associate Professor Emerita, University of Virginia

Speakers

Sally Ellis Fletcher

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies

Amber P. Williams

ATI

Cassie Burks

University of Tennessee at Martin

Darlla Thompson, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

Assistant Professor, Troy University

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Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Pearl Room

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

4:00pm EDT

D7. Nurse Training and Education

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Pearl Room

1. Sarah Saffa, The Kiowa School of Practical Nursing:Its Role Within and Beyond the US Indian Service
2. Karen Anne Wolf, The Nurse Practitioner (NP) Experiment: MGH – CharlestownBunker Hill Pediatric NP Program
3. Kim Curry, The Historical Foundations of Advanced Nursing Education

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building.

From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.

The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding directional signs will be posted throughout the route.

Moderators

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

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2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

9:00am EDT

Gwyneth Franck

2:00pm EDT

Danielle Glynn

Emily Barr

Donna Curry

Ruth Manchester

9:30am EDT

Kim Curry

Emily Barr

Alisa R. Haushalter

Andrej Toth

Jess Dillard-Wright

12:30pm EDT

Jess Dillard-Wright

Christine Ardalan

Charlotte Swint

Valeria Eadler

Alisa R. Haushalter

2:15pm EDT

Mary Gibson

Sally Ellis Fletcher

Amber P. Williams

Cassie Burks

Darlla Thompson, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

4:00pm EDT

Donna Curry

Sarah Saffa

Karen Anne Wolf

Kim Curry

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