Susan Reichert Gortner

Background

Gortner, Susan Reichert was born on December 23, 1932 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of Frederick Leet and Erida Louise (Leuschner) R.

Education

AB, Stanford University, 1953; M Nursing, Western Reserve U., 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1964; postgraduate, Stanford University, 1983.

Career

Staff nurse, instructor, supervisor, Johns Hopkins Hospital School Nursing, Baltimore, 1957-1958; instructor to assistant professor, School Nursing U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1958-1964; staff scientist, research administrator division nursing, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Maryland., 1966-1978; associate dean research, School Nursing University of California, San Francisco, 1978-1986; acting department chairman family health, School Nursing University of California, San Francisco, 1982; professor department family health care nursing, School Nursing University of California, San Francisco, 1978-1994; professor emerita, since 1994; fellow, associate member of faculty Institute Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco, 1979-1994; member affiliated faculty Institute for Aging and Health, University of California, San Francisco, 1981-1994; Adjunct Professor internal medicine department general medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1989-1994; director cardiac recovery laboratory School Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 1987-1995; special assistant to dean, University of California, San Francisco, 1993-1994. Fulbright lecturer, research scholar Norwegian Fulbright Commission, Oslo, 1988.

Achievements

• Susan Reichert Gortner has been listed as a noteworthy Nursing educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Health advisor N. Fork Association, Soda Springs, California, since 1981. Fellow American Academy Nursing. Member ANA (chair Executive Committee, county nurse research committee 1976-1980, cabinet on nursing research 1984-1986), American Heart Association (county cardiovascular nursing Executive Committee 1987-1991, county epidemiology since 1989, Katharine A. Lembright award 1991, fellow in cardiovascular nursing county 1992), Sigma Theta Tau (Alpha Eta chapter, Margretta M. Styles award 1994).

Connections

Married Willis Alway Gortner, August 25, 1960 (deceased September 1993). Children: Catherine Willis, Frederick Aiken.

Father:

Frederick Leet R.

Mother:

Erida Louise (Leuschner) R.

Spouse:

Willis Alway Gortner

child:

Frederick Aiken Gortner

child:

Catherine Willis Gortner