UAB’s Hodges, Holland named among top nursing professors nationally

Nursepractionerschools.com recognizes professors for teaching the new generation of health care providers while conducting research and shaping policy to increase birthrates and save lives.

ashley hodges webAshley HodgesAshley Hodges, Ph.D., and Aimee Holland, DNP, of the University of Alabama at BirminghamSchool of Nursing, have been named among the 20 Outstanding Professors of Women’s Health Nursing by nursepractitionerschools.com.

Hodges, assistant dean for Graduate Clinical Programs, is an experienced educator and leader in nursing. She is certified as a Women’s Health nurse practitioner and has more than 25 years of experience in maternal child nursing, administration and education. Hodges is known nationally for her work on the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Board of Directors, Development Committee and as co-chair of the Public Policy Committee. She also serves on the Advisory Panel for Workplace Violence and Incivility for the American Nurses Association. Hodges earned her master’s degree and doctorate from the UAB School of Nursing.

aimee hollandAimee HollandHolland, assistant professor and director of Graduate Clinical Program Progression, is formerly the coordinator of the dual adult-gerontology primary and women’s health nurse practitioner specialty track. Holland’s expertise in women’s health is utilized performing gynecology procedures, reproductive life planning counseling and preventive services in the college health setting. She is on the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health Board of Directors and is the chair of the Research Committee. In addition, Holland is a licensure, accreditation, certification and education (LACE) representative for the National Organization of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health. She also received the Award of Excellence in Community Service from the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing in 2014. Holland earned her doctorate from the UAB School of Nursing.

Nursepractitionerschools.com says both professors were selected for this distinction because they are “not only teaching and helping to prepare a new generation of healthcare providers, they are conducting research and shaping policy to help increase birthrates and save lives ...” and are “... influencing the WHNP specialization for the better.”