THE AUTHORS
Madeline A. Naegle, PhD, CNS-PMH, BC, FAAN, is Professor and Director, World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) Collaborating Center in Geriatric Nursing, and Coordinator, Substance Related Disorders Sequence, College of Nursing, New York University. Dr. Naegle has been the principal investigator of five program development grants in substance abuse and psychiatric nursing education and is currently a Coinvestigator on Project SARET (Substance Abuse Education Research and Training), an interdisciplinary project promoting careers in substance use research for nursing, medical, and dental students. Dr. Naegle is the author/coauthor of over 50 articles focusing on impairment in health professionals, and nursing roles in caring for persons with substance use disorders (SUDS), including gero-psychiatric populations. In 1989, Professor Naegle founded the Journal of Addictions Nursing, a peer reviewed publication and the official journal of the International Nurses’ Society on Addictions (INTNSA) and served as Editor-in-Chief for 10 years. Her contributions to addictions as a subspecialty of psychiatric mental-health nursing and her advocacy of nursing roles in addictions treatment and research were recognized in the American Nurses Association, Hildegard Peplau Award, the INTNSA President's Award and INTNSA Spirit Award as well as the Anderson J. Spickard Mentorship Award from the Association of Medical Educators and Researchers in Substance Abuse (AMERSA). Dr. Naegle continues to publish and conduct research in her areas of interest which include nurse well-being and management of health professional impairment, substance use in older adults, approaches to SUD education, and a part-time clinical practice with dually diagnosed patients in the New York metropolitan area.