Background
FAGIN, Claire was born on November 25, 1926 in New York, United States. Daughter of Harry Fagin and Mae (Slatin) Mintzer.
FAGIN, Claire was born on November 25, 1926 in New York, United States. Daughter of Harry Fagin and Mae (Slatin) Mintzer.
Columbia University; New York University. Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Teachers College.
She has a bachelor"s degree in Science from Wagner College, a Master"s in Nursing from Columbia University and a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University, all in New York City. She elected to study nursing at Wagner College and earned a doctorate at New York University. Her doctoral dissertation covered the concept of "rooming in" for parents of hospitalized children.
She continued her research in this area, which influenced the perception of parental visitation in hospitals.
She served as Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1992, when she left to do geriatric nursing research as a Scholar in Residence at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. She was Presidential Chair in early 1993 at the University of California, San Francisco.
In 1993 she was named interim president of the University of Pennsylvania (from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994), the first woman to serve in the capacity of a university president with any Ivy League university. She continued to focus on geriatric nursing after returning to the professoriate in 1994 and has done so ever since.
In 2005 she completed five years as director of the "John A. Hartford Foundation Program: Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity", which is coordinated in Washington, District of Columbia, at the American Academy of Nursing.
She is a past president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. On November 30, 2006, the nursing education building at the University of Pennsylvania was renamed as Claire M. Fagin Hall. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Service of New New York
Task Force Jt. Committee on Mental Health of Children 1966-1969, Governor's Committee on Children, New York 1971-1975, Institute of Medicine, North.A.S. (Governing Council 1981-1983), American Academy, of Nursing (Governing Council 1976-1978), Expert Advisory Panel on Nursing, World Health Organization since 1974, National Advisory Mental Health Council, National Institute of Mental Health 1983-1987.
Married Samuel Fagin 1952, two son.