Judith Krauss

Judy Krauss, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Nursing, has been a member of the School of Nursing faculty since 1971 and served as dean of the school from January 1985 through June 1998. She was head of Silliman College from July 2000 through June 2015 and chair of the Yale University Council of College Heads from July 2003 through June 2009 and from July 2014 through June 2015. She was the inaugural editor of Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, from 1985 to 2005. In 1998 the American Academy of Nursing and the American Nurses Foundation appointed her Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where she helped conduct the background research for the IOM report America’s Health Care Safety Net: Intact, But Endangered.

Dean Krauss’s research interests include health policy/mental health policy; leadership in health care organizations; and health care relationships at the individual and organizational level. She co-authored the study The Chronically Ill Psychiatric Patient and the Community (Boston: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1985), which was honored as AJN Book of the Year and the first of its kind in its field. She also contributed a chapter titled “Power in the Healthcare Relationship” in the volume titled Advanced Practice Nursing Contexts of Care, edited by L. Hamlin (Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning, 2015), in addition to a number of articles in nursing periodicals and reference works.

For her longtime record as a nursing educator and noted expert in care of people with serious and persistent mental disorders Dean Krauss has received numerous recognitions and honors: American Nurses Association Distinguished Contributions to Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing; Boston College Alumni Achievement Award of Excellence in Health Care; Connecticut Nurses Association, Josephine Dolan Award for Excellence in Nursing Education; Connecticut League for Nursing Leadership in Education Award; Sigma Theta Tau Distinguished Lecturer; Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing Jeannette Chamberlain Service Award; Yale School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award; and the Yale School of Nursing Medal.