Ellen L. Palmer, RN, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, Assistant Clinical Professor

Ellen L. Palmer, RN, Ph.D. is assistant clinical professor in the UTA School of Nursing, has been selected the Texas Nurses Association District Four Nurse of the Year. She is a member of the UTA faculty since 1989. Palmer has a long record as both an educator and humanitarian in the field of health care.

The 1997 recipient of the UTA Distinguished Alumni Award, Palmer was recognized by the Dallas-Ft. Worth Hospital Council Nurse Executives Forum and the Texas Nurses Association as a Great One Hundred Nurse of the Metroplex in 1996. She was also selected as the 1995 International Mission Volunteer of the year by the Methodist Global Board of Missions.

Palmer has been a member of the Board of International Child Care, which serves children in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, since 1985 and has made numerous trips as a member of the surgical eye team. Each year, Palmer heads a group of nurses from the Metroplex (including UTA faculty members) to the Dominican Republic and Haiti to provide an evaluation workshop for health care providers.

She has also served as president of the International Child Care U.S. Board from 1998 until 2001 and currently serves as president of the Joint Ministry Council Board (which is the governing body of the I.C.C.). She was the recipient of the Vision Partner Award by the Dallas County Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses for her contributions to the profession and was awarded the 2002 American Nurses Association's Honorary Human Rights Award for her work in developing countries of South America, Africa, India and the Caribbean.

Palmer received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from UTA in 1978 and her master's degree in 1981, also from UTA. Her Ph.D. in health services was awarded in 1990 by Walden University.

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